{"chart":{"title":"Gender Development Index","subtitle":"The Gender Development Index (GDI) measures gender inequalities in the achievement of key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, a good education, and a decent standard of living. Values close to 1 indicate higher gender equality.","note":"Values below 1 indicate higher human development for men than women, while values above 1 indicate the opposite.","citation":"UNDP, Human Development Report (2025)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gender-development-index","selection":["United States","United Kingdom","South Korea","Chile","China","Brazil","India","Niger","Nigeria","Democratic Republic of Congo"]},"columns":{"Gender Development Index":{"titleShort":"Gender Development Index","titleLong":"Gender Development Index","descriptionShort":"The Gender Development Index (GDI) measures gender inequalities in the achievement of key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, a good education, and a decent standard of living.","descriptionKey":"- Compares female and male achievements in health, education and command over economic resources by taking the ratio of the female HDI to the male HDI; a value of 1 denotes gender parity, while values below (above) 1 indicate disadvantage for women (men).\n- It highlights how much human development potential is lost to gender disparities and guides gender‑responsive budgeting.\n- The Gender Development Index (GDI) measures gender inequalities in achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: health, measured by female and male life expectancy at birth; education, measured by female and male expected years of schooling for children and female and male mean years of schooling for adults ages 25 years and older; and command over economic resources, measured by female and male estimated earned income.\n- Values below 1 indicate higher human development for men than women, while values above 1 indicate the opposite. Values close to 1 therefore indicate higher gender equality.\n- Interpretable scale: an absolute deviation of, say, 5% means women's HDI is 95 % of men's (or vice-versa).\n- Data is originally sourced from UNDESA life tables, DHS/MICS & UIS education surveys, ILO labor data, IMF & World Bank income statistics and HDRO wage-ratio estimates.","descriptionProcessing":"We calculated averages over continents and income groups by taking the population-weighted average of the countries in each group. If less than 80% of countries in an area report data for a given year, we do not calculate the average for that area.","unit":"","timespan":"1990-2023","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1032415,"shortName":"gdi","lastUpdated":"2025-05-07","nextUpdate":"2026-11-30","citationShort":"UNDP, Human Development Report (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"UNDP, Human Development Report (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Gender Development Index – UNDP” [dataset]. UNDP, Human Development Report, “Human Development Report” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1032415.metadata.json"},"World region according to OWID":{"titleShort":"World region according to OWID","titleLong":"World region according to OWID","descriptionShort":"Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.","unit":"","timespan":"2023-2023","type":"Continent","owidVariableId":900801,"shortName":"owid_region","lastUpdated":"2023-01-01","citationShort":"Our World in Data","citationLong":"Our World in Data. “World region according to OWID” [dataset]. Our World in Data, “Regions” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/900801.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}