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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.

20 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
1QatarVery High1.0362KuwaitVery High1.0113LebanonHigh0.9924BahrainVery High0.9575United Arab EmiratesVery High0.9576LibyaHigh0.9557OmanVery High0.9458Palestine, State ofMedium0.9459Saudi ArabiaVery High0.93110TunisiaHigh0.93111EgyptHigh0.89512AlgeriaHigh0.88713JordanHigh0.86114MoroccoHigh0.85915DjiboutiLow0.81416SudanLow0.81317IraqMedium0.79318SomaliaLow0.79319Syrian Arab RepublicMedium0.78720YemenLow0.407