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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.

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

AllLowMediumHighVery High
All regionsArab StatesEast Asia and the PacificEurope and Central AsiaLatin America and the CaribbeanSouth AsiaSub-Saharan Africa
1GambiaLow0.9592MadagascarLow0.9343BurundiLow0.9324MalawiLow0.9255SenegalLow0.9246MozambiqueLow0.927Congo (Democratic Republic of the)Low0.8868EthiopiaLow0.8869Burkina FasoLow0.88110Guinea-BissauLow0.87811BeninLow0.86612LiberiaLow0.86513NigerLow0.85514PakistanLow0.83815Sierra LeoneLow0.8316GuineaLow0.82817DjiboutiLow0.81418SudanLow0.81319MaliLow0.81220SomaliaLow0.79321ChadLow0.78722AfghanistanLow0.6623YemenLow0.407