Gender Development Index by Country 2025
- All indexes are for year 2021 except Estimated Gross National Income per Capita, which is taken from 2017.
- The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
- HDI countries are grouped into five groups based on the absolute deviation from gender parity in HDI values, from 1 (closest to gender parity) to 5 (furthest from gender parity). This means that grouping takes equally into consideration gender gaps favoring males, as well as those favoring females.
- The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment).
- Final Gender Gap Index scores range from 0.000 (largest gap) to 1.000 (smallest gap).
