Women’s vs men’s development by country
Women’s development score next to men’s (1 = equal). The map opens on 2023, with figures for 187 countries.
Highest in 2023
- Ukraine 1.038
- St. Kitts and Nevis 1.037
- Qatar 1.036
- Barbados 1.035
- Antigua and Barb. 1.031
Lowest in 2023
- Yemen 0.407
- Afghanistan 0.660
- Central African Rep. 0.768
- Syria 0.787
- Chad 0.787
About the data
- Unit
- women’s score ÷ men’s (1 = equal)
- Years
- 1990–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Subnational HDI Database of the Global Data Lab (v10.2), https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/. Smits, J. and Permanyer, I. The Subnational Human Development Database. Sci. Data 6:190038 (2019)
All countries
- Afghanistan 0.660 (2023)
- Albania 0.963 (2023)
- Algeria 0.887 (2023)
- Andorra 0.997 (2023)
- Angola 0.906 (2023)
- Antigua and Barb. 1.031 (2023)
- Argentina 0.988 (2023)
- Armenia 1.006 (2023)
- Australia 0.977 (2023)
- Austria 0.985 (2023)
- Azerbaijan 0.983 (2023)
- Bahamas 1.015 (2023)
- Bahrain 0.957 (2023)
- Bangladesh 0.918 (2023)
- Barbados 1.035 (2023)
- Belarus 1.009 (2023)
- Belgium 0.979 (2023)
- Belize 0.981 (2023)
- Benin 0.866 (2023)
- Bhutan 0.958 (2023)
- Bolivia 0.961 (2023)
- Bosnia and Herz. 0.967 (2023)
- Botswana 0.997 (2023)
- Brazil 1.002 (2023)
- Brunei 0.993 (2023)
- Bulgaria 1.000 (2023)
- Burkina Faso 0.881 (2023)
- Burundi 0.932 (2023)
- Cabo Verde 0.964 (2023)
- Cambodia 0.939 (2023)
- Cameroon 0.898 (2023)
- Canada 0.991 (2023)
- Central African Rep. 0.768 (2023)
- Chad 0.787 (2023)
- Chile 0.967 (2023)
- China 0.976 (2023)
- Colombia 0.992 (2023)
- Comoros 0.929 (2023)
- Congo 0.924 (2023)
- Costa Rica 0.975 (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire 0.910 (2023)
- Croatia 0.999 (2023)
- Cuba 0.975 (2023)
- Cyprus 0.996 (2023)
- Czechia 0.987 (2023)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 0.886 (2023)
- Denmark 0.990 (2023)
- Djibouti 0.814 (2023)
- Dominica 1.026 (2023)
- Dominican Rep. 1.024 (2023)
- Ecuador 0.998 (2023)
- Egypt 0.895 (2023)
- El Salvador 0.983 (2023)
- Eq. Guinea 0.963 (2023)
- Eritrea 0.886 (2023)
- Estonia 1.023 (2023)
- eSwatini 0.964 (2023)
- Ethiopia 0.886 (2023)
- Fiji 0.948 (2023)
- Finland 0.992 (2023)
- France 0.993 (2023)
- Gabon 0.994 (2023)
- Gambia 0.959 (2023)
- Georgia 1.009 (2023)
- Germany 0.975 (2023)
- Ghana 0.933 (2023)
- Greece 0.963 (2023)
- Grenada 0.984 (2023)
- Guatemala 0.934 (2023)
- Guinea 0.828 (2023)
- Guinea-Bissau 0.878 (2023)
- Guyana 0.992 (2023)
- Haiti 0.932 (2023)
- Honduras 0.964 (2023)
- Hungary 0.989 (2023)
- Iceland 0.983 (2023)
- India 0.874 (2023)
- Indonesia 0.945 (2023)
- Iran 0.875 (2023)
- Iraq 0.793 (2023)
- Ireland 1.001 (2023)
- Israel 0.994 (2023)
- Italy 0.975 (2023)
- Jamaica 1.013 (2023)
- Japan 0.970 (2023)
- Jordan 0.861 (2023)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 0.945 (2023)
- Kazakhstan 1.004 (2023)
- Kenya 0.944 (2023)
- Kiribati 0.976 (2023)
- Kuwait 1.011 (2023)
- Kyrgyzstan 0.959 (2023)
- Laos 0.911 (2023)
- Latvia 1.026 (2023)
- Lebanon 0.992 (2023)
- Lesotho 1.006 (2023)
- Liberia 0.865 (2023)
- Libya 0.955 (2023)
- Liechtenstein 0.964 (2023)
- Lithuania 1.022 (2023)
- Luxembourg 0.996 (2023)
- Madagascar 0.934 (2023)
- Malawi 0.925 (2023)
- Malaysia 0.973 (2023)
- Maldives 0.986 (2023)
- Mali 0.812 (2023)
- Mauritania 0.886 (2023)
- Mauritius 0.971 (2023)
- Mexico 0.976 (2023)
- Micronesia 0.953 (2023)
- Moldova 1.029 (2023)
- Mongolia 1.030 (2023)
- Montenegro 0.984 (2023)
- Morocco 0.859 (2023)
- Mozambique 0.920 (2023)
- Myanmar 0.947 (2023)
- Namibia 1.011 (2023)
- Nepal 0.858 (2023)
- Netherlands 0.971 (2023)
- New Zealand 0.973 (2023)
- Nicaragua 0.952 (2023)
- Niger 0.855 (2023)
- Nigeria 0.892 (2023)
- North Macedonia 0.955 (2023)
- Norway 0.995 (2023)
- Oman 0.945 (2023)
- Pakistan 0.838 (2023)
- Panama 1.014 (2023)
- Papua New Guinea 0.926 (2023)
- Paraguay 0.988 (2023)
- Peru 0.959 (2023)
- Philippines 0.984 (2023)
- Poland 1.012 (2023)
- Portugal 1.000 (2023)
- Qatar 1.036 (2023)
- Romania 0.986 (2023)
- Russia 1.023 (2023)
- Rwanda 0.922 (2023)
- S. Sudan 0.863 (2023)
- Saint Lucia 1.016 (2023)
- Samoa 0.955 (2023)
- São Tomé and Principe 0.980 (2023)
- Saudi Arabia 0.931 (2023)
- Senegal 0.924 (2023)
- Serbia 0.987 (2023)
- Seychelles 1.004 (2023)
- Sierra Leone 0.830 (2023)
- Singapore 0.994 (2023)
- Slovakia 0.999 (2023)
- Slovenia 0.997 (2023)
- Solomon Is. 0.927 (2023)
- Somalia 0.793 (2023)
- South Africa 0.996 (2023)
- South Korea 0.959 (2023)
- Spain 0.989 (2023)
- Sri Lanka 0.951 (2023)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 1.037 (2023)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 1.012 (2023)
- Sudan 0.813 (2023)
- Suriname 0.993 (2023)
- Sweden 0.988 (2023)
- Switzerland 0.977 (2023)
- Syria 0.787 (2023)
- Tajikistan 0.926 (2023)
- Tanzania 0.951 (2023)
- Thailand 1.008 (2023)
- Timor-Leste 0.939 (2023)
- Togo 0.865 (2023)
- Tonga 0.998 (2023)
- Trinidad and Tobago 0.990 (2023)
- Tunisia 0.931 (2023)
- Turkey 0.938 (2023)
- Turkmenistan 0.993 (2023)
- Tuvalu 0.969 (2023)
- Uganda 0.908 (2023)
- Ukraine 1.038 (2023)
- United Arab Emirates 0.957 (2023)
- United Kingdom 0.979 (2023)
- United States of America 1.009 (2023)
- Uruguay 1.017 (2023)
- Uzbekistan 0.951 (2023)
- Vanuatu 0.952 (2023)
- Venezuela 0.993 (2023)
- Vietnam 0.997 (2023)
- Yemen 0.407 (2023)
- Zambia 0.949 (2023)
- Zimbabwe 0.944 (2023)