Gender Inequality Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: gender-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Gender Inequality Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	UNDP Human Development Report Office’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Denmark172Yemenmiddle 87	153	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	172	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	172	0
Gender Inequality Index (0 best – 1 worst)gii_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: GII (0 = full equality, 1 = maximum inequality).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.003Denmark0.838Yemenmiddle 0.352	153	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 34 years.

Not in this dataset · 52 places this site covers

UNDP Human Development Report Office gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaEquatorial GuineaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUkraineUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UNDP Human Development Report Office

   hdr.undp.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Gender Inequality Index 2023

   HDR25_Composite_indices_complete_time_series.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   34 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as gender-inequality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/gender-inequality

From the 2025 Human Development Report, which recalculates every year on one current method. UNDP states an official rank for 2023 only; the other 33 years are ordered here by score, after that ordering was verified against all 172 of UNDP’s own 2023 ranks.

• Charted

  Gender Inequality Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Gender & Equality
  • Development & Human Capital
  • Health & Wellbeing

• Near neighbours

  • Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 54 held · 1971–2024
  • Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
  • Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023