page_title: Gender Development Index
section_title: Gender Development Index (2018)
hierarchical_section_title: Gender Development Index / Gender Development Index (2018)
caption_attribution_description: English: A choropleth map showing countries/territories by their Gender Development Index (GDI) score based on data collected in 2018, published by UNDP in 2019. Countries are grouped into five groups, from 1 (closest to gender parity: “high equality in HDI achievements between women and men”) to 5 (furthest from gender parity). Grouping takes equally into consideration gender gaps favouring males and those favouring females (Technical Notes 2019). &#160;&#160; group 1: GDI above 0,9751 = gap below 02,5&#160;% = high equality: 53 countries &#160;&#160; group 2: GDI above 0,9501 = gap below 05,0&#160;% = medium-high equality: 39 countries &#160;&#160; group 3: GDI above 0,9251 = gap below 07,5&#160;% = medium equality: 22 countries &#160;&#160; group 4: GDI above 0,9001 = gap below 10,0&#160;% = medium-low equality: 8 countries &#160;&#160; group 5: GDI below 0,9001 = gap above 10,0&#160;% = low equality: 44 countries &#160;&#160; Data unavailable (23 countries)
context_page_description: The Gender Related Development Index is an index designed to measure gender equality.
  GDI together with the Gender Empowerment Measure were introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Program. The aim of these measurements was to add a gender-sensitive dimension to the Human Development Index. The first measurement that they created as a result was the Gender-related Development Index. The GDI is defined as a "distribution-sensitive measure that accounts for the human development impact of existing gender gaps in the three components of the HDI". Distribution sensitive means that the GDI takes into account not only the averaged or general level of well-being and wealth within a given country, but focuses also on how this wealth and well-being is distributed between different groups within society. The HDI and the GDI were created to rival the more traditional general income-based measures of development such as gross domestic product and gross national product.
context_section_description: Below is a list of countries by their Gender Development Index, based on data collected in 2018, and published in 2019. Countries are grouped into five groups based on the absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI values, from 1 (closest to gender parity) to 5 (furthest from gender parity). This means that grouping takes equally into consideration gender gaps favoring males, as well as those favoring females.
caption: World map showing countries in Group 1 to 5 of the Gender Development Index (based on 2018 data, published in 2019). Countries in Group 1 are closest to gender parity, while those in Group 5 are furthest (i.e. have the greatest gender disparity).        Group 1   Group 2   Group 3    Group 4   Group 5   Data unavailable
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