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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.

25 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
1MongoliaHigh1.032ThailandHigh1.0083TongaHigh0.9984Viet NamHigh0.9975SingaporeVery High0.9946Brunei DarussalamVery High0.9937PalauHigh0.9928PhilippinesHigh0.9849ChinaHigh0.97610KiribatiMedium0.97611MalaysiaVery High0.97312TuvaluMedium0.96913Marshall IslandsHigh0.9614NauruHigh0.95515SamoaHigh0.95516Micronesia (Federated States of)Medium0.95317VanuatuMedium0.95218FijiHigh0.94819MyanmarMedium0.94720IndonesiaHigh0.94521CambodiaMedium0.93922Timor-LesteMedium0.93923Solomon IslandsMedium0.92724Papua New GuineaMedium0.92625Lao People's Democratic RepublicMedium0.911