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The Gender Inequality Index

Data source: United Nations Development Program

The Gender Inequality Index (GII) reflects gender-based disadvantage in three dimensions - reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market - for as many countries as data of reasonable quality allow. It shows the loss in potential human development due to inequality between female and male achievements in these dimensions. It ranges from 0, where women and men fare equally, to 1, where one gender fares as poorly as possible in all measured dimensions.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Last updated by source

2022-07-15

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• United Nations Development Program. (2022). Gender inequality index. http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-index-gii

• United Nations Development Program. (2024). Human development report 2023/2024. https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2023-24

@misc{gii1,
 author = {{United Nations Development Program}},
 last_updated = {2024-04-03},
 title = {Gender Inequality Index},
 url = {http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-index-gii},
 year = {2022}
}

@misc{undp1,
 author = {{United Nations Development Program}},
 last_updated = {2025-12-03},
 title = {Human Development Report 2025},
 url = {https://hdr.undp.org/content/human-development-report-2025},
 year = {2025}
}

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Gender Inequality Index

QoG code: gii_gii

The GII is an inequality index (0 to 1 higher disparity). It measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development-reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and ...

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