Countries With the Highest Gender Inequality Index

Every country with a figure for gender inequality index, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Yemen, Rep. (0.838), Nigeria (0.677) and Somalia, Fed. Rep. (0.675). The middle country of the 172 has 0.352.

What this measures

Gender Inequality Index, in index, 0 to 1. Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office. For this measure, higher is worse.

Built from deaths in childbirth, births to teenagers, seats in parliament, secondary schooling, and the share of women and men in the workforce. Five of those inputs are on the site and flagged. It is kept out of the gender score, for the same reason the HDI is kept out of the economy score.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2023–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.