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Gender Development Index

Ratio of female to male HDI — 1.0 means parity; below 1.0 means women's human development lags men's.

17 countries with a value for 2023. Ranked highest to lowest — rank #1 is the best outcome on this measure.

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All regions Arab States East Asia and the Pacific Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean South Asia Sub-Saharan Africa

1GambiaLow0.959 2MadagascarLow0.934 3BurundiLow0.932 4MalawiLow0.925 5SenegalLow0.924 6MozambiqueLow0.92 7Congo (Democratic Republic of the)Low0.886 8EthiopiaLow0.886 9Burkina FasoLow0.881 10Guinea-BissauLow0.878 11BeninLow0.866 12LiberiaLow0.865 13NigerLow0.855 14Sierra LeoneLow0.83 15GuineaLow0.828 16MaliLow0.812 17ChadLow0.787