Gender Development Index

Last updated April 10, 2024

The Gender Development Index (GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality.

GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Program. These measurements aimed to add a gender-sensitive dimension to the Human Development Index (HDI). The first measurement that they created as a result was the GDI. The GDI is defined as a "distribution-sensitive measure that accounts for the human development impact of existing gender gaps in the three components of the HDI" (Klasen 243). Distribution sensitivity means that the GDI takes into account not only the averaged or general level of well-being and wealth within a given country, but focuses also on how this wealth and well-being is distributed between different groups within society. The HDI and the GDI (as well as the GEM) were created to rival the more traditional general income-based measures of development such as gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP).^[1]

Definition and calculation

The GDI is often considered a "gender-sensitive extension of the HDI" (Klasen 245). It addresses gender-gaps in life expectancy, education, and incomes. It uses an "inequality aversion" penalty, which creates a development score penalty for gender gaps in any of the categories of the Human Development Index (HDI) which include life expectancy, adult literacy, school enrollment, and logarithmic transformations of per-capita income. In terms of life expectancy, the GDI assumes that women will live an average of five years longer than men. Additionally, in terms of income, the GDI considers income-gaps in terms of actual earned income.^[1] The GDI cannot be used independently from the HDI score, and so, it cannot be used on its own as an indicator of gender gaps. Only the gap between the HDI and the GDI can actually be accurately considered; the GDI on its own is not an independent measure of gender gaps.^[2]

Gender Development Index (2018)

Below is a list of countries by their Gender Development Index, based on data collected in 2018, and published in 2019.^[3] 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.

2018 rank	Country	Gender Development Index	Group	Human Development Index (women)	Human Development Index (men)
1	Kuwait	0.999271313598908	1	0.802241545091312	0.802826553883562
2	Kazakhstan	0.998616111258415	1	0.814121946939387	0.815250162460792
3	Trinidad and Tobago	1.00211774602851	1	0.797989701033099	0.796303332812547
4	Slovenia	1.00257442927832	1	0.901787072451453	0.899471446823739
5	Vietnam	1.00272297523169	1	0.693389879484458	0.691506923259876
6	Burundi	1.00324890931813	1	0.421654103634997	0.420288624008154
7	Dominican Republic	1.00339001174288	1	0.744042111285307	0.741528321567516
8	Philippines	1.00369597615498	1	0.712223593546365	0.709600925446362
9	Thailand	0.995480861692473	1	0.762715746885023	0.766178212194142
10	Panama	1.00461251995559	1	0.793862458409325	0.790217564125534
11	Ukraine	0.995122669191676	1	0.745224174704749	0.748876694076404
12	Brazil	0.995109362655928	1	0.757109191363106	0.760830135636948
13	Moldova	1.00705674095832	1	0.713558080174709	0.70855797012558
14	Bulgaria	0.992621622836447	1	0.811903568014688	0.817938627706547
15	Slovakia	0.992371676979385	1	0.852080306845641	0.858630215484618
16	Poland	1.00854973881397	1	0.874194924380356	0.86678414632122
17	United States	0.99144743381844	1	0.914844606387427	0.922736370262227
18	Namibia	1.0094706476123	1	0.647427874518634	0.641353838321097
19	Norway	0.990437581014824	1	0.94564679665501	0.954776772187986
20	Finland	0.989817373600636	1	0.919751993696064	0.929213830982077
21	Barbados	1.01032361432783	1	0.816388101546477	0.808046144788592
22	Belarus	1.010339927488	1	0.819686875325532	0.811298111679611
23	Botswana	0.989531869461814	1	0.723041706146159	0.730690671478228
24	Canada	0.989058149729888	1	0.915888363975847	0.926020744307072
25	Croatia	0.98859213038971	1	0.832316431348996	0.841920955835336
26	Singapore	0.98814794506132	1	0.929356109430028	0.940503002687878
27	Argentina	0.987919014775328	1	0.817640023795134	0.827638714880978
28	Venezuela	1.01272311153934	1	0.728475070383083	0.719323043073244
29	Brunei	0.986891147195856	1	0.836720430865344	0.847834569438376
30	Nicaragua	1.01321583363332	1	0.654849103183038	0.646307609342023
31	Colombia	0.986296673191879	1	0.754714364824177	0.765200152588724
32	Romania	0.986261546538915	1	0.809420161886165	0.820695245319724
33	Jamaica	0.986030910048998	1	0.718965693897112	0.729151273626285
34	Russia	1.01499805083001	1	0.828317933961805	0.816078349396287
35	France	0.98439750467821	1	0.883037148032378	0.897033102822659
36	Estonia	1.01574985871536	1	0.885869263158098	0.872133287105225
37	South Africa	0.984153359434317	1	0.698296318804934	0.709540146473014
38	Portugal	0.984006569463407	1	0.842559344988258	0.856253780345916
39	Uruguay	1.01607193850868	1	0.809691228698831	0.79688376187934
40	Hungary	0.983855072217788	1	0.836374771060734	0.850099567180554
41	Cape Verde	0.98384439453558	1	0.644164225448235	0.654741978534431
42	Cyprus	0.983090727880394	1	0.864740933228215	0.879614575444782
43	Czech Republic	0.983021479607738	1	0.881578351276749	0.896804769340881
44	Belize	0.982811514946144	1	0.712983445231243	0.725452881237674
45	Sweden	0.981817713523961	1	0.927549412691099	0.944726704269694
46	Spain	0.98068365758681	1	0.881897607495364	0.899268179573288
47	Denmark	1.00000000000000	1	1.000	1.000
48	Ecuador	0.979876022499264	1	0.747701339556282	0.763057083128946
49	Georgia	0.978843828928938	1	0.774556381501532	0.791297200442139
50	Costa Rica	0.977136852016496	1	0.781504112645575	0.799789825788274
51	Japan	0.976487130681848	1	0.901210670433948	0.92291095511383
52	Serbia	0.976372480770375	1	0.789117394155053	0.808213473542829
53	Australia	0.975113503181452	1	0.925664958786577	0.949289447604262
54	Ireland	0.974930720274505	2	0.928842297989999	0.9527264642235
55	Saint Lucia	0.974776845288729	2	0.734104181262105	0.753099732323518
56	Lesotho	1.02554956311433	2	0.522151801801454	0.50914341011059
57	Mauritius	0.973598560971563	2	0.781958849986583	0.803163522762666
58	Guyana	0.973439493655793	2	0.655984723050024	0.673883407572098
59	Armenia	0.972097105538784	2	0.745713315885668	0.767118132166803
60	Lithuania	1.02801557456846	2	0.880350319739633	0.856358932216745
61	Belgium	0.971637285832976	2	0.904498199776896	0.93090108105668
62	Suriname	0.971619589838185	2	0.710079630808469	0.730820619751736
63	Israel	0.971565636624078	2	0.89085212219952	0.916924280375936
64	Malaysia	0.971535181068249	2	0.791500865872141	0.814690894674394
65	Albania	0.971302380112087	2	0.778864159321813	0.801876094684266
66	Honduras	0.970407383075693	2	0.611426703399936	0.630072188303048
67	Luxembourg	0.970263947573514	2	0.893206480322808	0.920580922909261
68	Latvia	1.03040141727652	2	0.86528356437401	0.839753856959034
69	Mongolia	1.03051247212425	2	0.745684609993285	0.723605613871095
70	El Salvador	0.969303900072772	2	0.65414310778579	0.67485863591045
71	Germany	0.968046731183915	2	0.922788125514936	0.953247499102003
72	Paraguay	0.968014313475195	2	0.710081665159304	0.733544592548527
73	Italy	0.967274986133354	2	0.865859235918938	0.895153134663575
74	United Kingdom	0.96671693364499	2	0.903526469774669	0.934633953672392
75	Netherlands	0.966586563190941	2	0.915682504422063	0.94733626484437
76	Iceland	0.966035360302579	2	0.921422694662473	0.953818806771077
77	Montenegro	0.965505839872185	2	0.800863981950797	0.829476062057601
78	United Arab Emirates	0.965148016786254	2	0.831679159131191	0.861711514364929
79	Malta	0.964573668396	2	0.867003905508653	0.898846748481537
80	New Zealand	0.963450079812055	2	0.901877659315533	0.936091737613916
81	Switzerland	0.963384994370094	2	0.924302891740428	0.959432518818482
82	Hong Kong	0.96331458591632	2	0.91883629861405	0.953827868951074
83	Austria	0.962992625875126	2	0.894949094941461	0.929341586731435
84	Greece	0.96272210220035	2	0.854140900297802	0.887214387563783
85	Swaziland	0.962280698092814	2	0.594969468404531	0.618290972253447
86	Chile	0.961896022109213	2	0.827637034592205	0.860422556668226
87	China	0.960737178700119	2	0.7411723134053	0.771462091649362
88	Kyrgyzstan	0.959354156976191	2	0.655758696158308	0.683541830084114
89	Mexico	0.957251775460597	2	0.747167434728433	0.780533871947035
90	Qatar	1.04338023447896	2	0.87328373892252	0.836975543588494
91	Myanmar	0.953281245175706	2	0.566167394183869	0.593914332259327
92	Peru	0.951068629111926	2	0.73835574021778	0.776343281249042
93	Zambia	0.949346763894446	3	0.575199531528163	0.60588981118823
94	Cuba	0.94847909440168	3	0.752740766990656	0.793629265456294
95	North Macedonia	0.946858477421388	3	0.736774749145141	0.778125524261687
96	Madagascar	0.946436637249011	3	0.504225253132795	0.532761764800671
97	Tonga	0.944301733548051	3	0.691914784976437	0.732726373779583
98	Guatemala	0.943001743676744	3	0.628457412659945	0.666443531917134
99	Rwanda	0.942983702163843	3	0.519691032216798	0.551113482687214
100	Oman	0.942644918586126	3	0.792879654368817	0.841122291899752
–	World average	0.941430799701876	–	0.706980962068851	0.750964343096414
101	Azerbaijan	0.94043401604125	3	0.728006586417231	0.774117666948894
102	Maldives	0.938974186367784	3	0.689217295551526	0.734010908454909
103	Uzbekistan	0.938530667537194	3	0.685437015702195	0.730329907599989
104	Sri Lanka	0.937501402709405	3	0.749425007262443	0.799385478354042
105	Indonesia	0.937278216882204	3	0.681319036769408	0.726912270548411
106	Bahrain	0.936580181665306	3	0.799753662146286	0.853908376242029
107	Bolivia	0.936071128421922	3	0.677681643411889	0.723963834408994
108	Tanzania	0.93556520183438	3	0.509116716427692	0.54418090308346
109	South Korea	0.933514804909621	3	0.869859990274136	0.931811671008637
110	Kenya	0.93334124890745	3	0.553446092043308	0.592972926773739
111	Libya	0.930834633256552	3	0.670350699455828	0.720160891640427
112	Republic of the Congo	0.930508381323755	3	0.590608226344738	0.63471564383389
113	Malawi	0.929979500928547	3	0.466256425669024	0.501362046371437
114	Laos	0.929388949637999	3	0.580896379268115	0.625030434775856
115	Zimbabwe	0.924865126473049	4	0.540217146902477	0.584103704896499
116	Turkey	0.923845887665176	4	0.770530112179602	0.834046156904971
117	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.92376150833791	4	0.735305564655512	0.795990694587958
118	Cambodia	0.919132552991075	4	0.556669111249323	0.605646170879042
119	Gabon	0.917044836281997	4	0.668897563298245	0.72940551741197
120	Ghana	0.912066262295093	4	0.567120060412223	0.621796994206474
121	Angola	0.901852522177659	4	0.545524138209497	0.60489284533157
122	Mozambique	0.901399241057088	4	0.42171001631638	0.467839329243092
123	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.899721720272795	5	0.571432940029916	0.635121868411333
124	East Timor	0.899338643290567	5	0.589475390655512	0.655454310846352
125	Liberia	0.898619930984625	5	0.437938141035413	0.487345234548226
126	Tunisia	0.898516211947261	5	0.68930089658175	0.767154657218593
127	Nepal	0.897374748629354	5	0.548886325033576	0.611657867431575
128	Bangladesh	0.895463713494037	5	0.574538067712771	0.64160954715961
129	Bhutan	0.893345815434905	5	0.580503137357053	0.649807865361129
130	Lebanon	0.890577064263023	5	0.678454800871403	0.761814814344947
131	Haiti	0.890365827551326	5	0.477397671690552	0.536181485090781
132	Comoros	0.888069540927266	5	0.504017390629825	0.567542706288025
133	Benin	0.883486835760026	5	0.485715005319931	0.549770506656267
134	Sierra Leone	0.882483208929897	5	0.410599830153055	0.465277782056556
135	Saudi Arabia	0.879136805709795	5	0.784333088515893	0.892162725325372
136	Egypt	0.878316588012583	5	0.64266778257163	0.731704024884503
137	Burkina Faso	0.874690316250611	5	0.403149171515835	0.460905035789063
138	Iran	0.873999741121421	5	0.726849370286313	0.831635681440477
139	Senegal	0.87347139391351	5	0.475960252557682	0.544906514253643
140	Palestine	0.871346924588787	5	0.623519218495938	0.71558090227976
141	Cameroon	0.86892158600649	5	0.522007757584777	0.600753584663367
142	Jordan	0.868301159101109	5	0.654288917853024	0.753527633811249
143	Nigeria	0.867675972564795	5	0.491676192340555	0.566658761896094
144	Algeria	0.864588565403417	5	0.684971930096163	0.792251895879002
145	Uganda	0.86268775649487	5	0.48376445336274	0.56076425070444
146	Mauritania	0.852934961025278	5	0.479113168207732	0.561722980181056
147	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.844045244422387	5	0.418857464866842	0.496250014599019
148	Ethiopia	0.843899175273984	5	0.42770052294657	0.506814718485429
149	South Sudan	0.838915228792041	5	0.368735499184939	0.439538449809623
150	Sudan	0.836500123073206	5	0.456500034277483	0.545726200972158
151	Morocco	0.832807050749792	5	0.602993983556629	0.724050046182658
152	Gambia	0.832110339375305	5	0.415697194375194	0.499569798264101
153	India	0.828659271423645	5	0.573650381208353	0.692263275136976
154	Togo	0.817890855118709	5	0.458991965749326	0.561189751513615
155	Mali	0.807099598839839	5	0.380140424771307	0.470995680480746
156	Guinea	0.80606657004618	5	0.41342656240414	0.512893820147453
157	Tajikistan	0.798555909314393	5	0.561341006774011	0.702945154154523
158	Ivory Coast	0.796251100904936	5	0.445376820642565	0.559342172508641
159	Central African Republic	0.795444752528615	5	0.335149259100481	0.421335684263534
160	Syria	0.79532319946114	5	0.457372222910504	0.57507718022106
161	Iraq	0.789324230426714	5	0.587352897134761	0.744121204561571
162	Chad	0.774452360811538	5	0.347398235861034	0.448572763723
163	Pakistan	0.746878273640409	5	0.464284284133844	0.621633136911112
164	Afghanistan	0.722861973965333	5	0.410756365978411	0.568236234263597
165	Yemen	0.457536126892644	5	0.244873082377673	0.5351994476168
166	Niger	0.298179843688684	5	0.129771161871938	0.435211046684383

Controversies

General debates

In the years since its creation in 1995, much debate has arisen surrounding the reliability, and usefulness of the Gender Development Index (GDI) in making adequate comparisons between different countries and in promoting gender-sensitive development. The GDI is particularly criticized for being often mistakenly interpreted as an independent measure of gender gaps when it is not, in fact, intended to be interpreted in that way, because it can only be used in combination with the scores from the Human Development Index, but not on its own. Additionally, the data that is needed in order to calculate the GDI is not always readily available in many countries, making the measure very hard to calculate uniformly and internationally. There is also worry that the combination of so many different developmental influences in one measurement could result in muddled results and that perhaps the GDI (and the GEM) actually hide more than they reveal.^[1]

Criticism on Life Expectancy adjustment

More specifically, there has been a lot of criticism over the Life-Expectancy component of the GDI. As was mentioned previously, the GDI life expectancy section is adjusted by assuming that women will automatically live five years longer than men. This provision has been criticized on multiple grounds; e.g. it has been argued that if the GDI was really looking to promote true equality, it would strive to attain the same life-expectancy for women and men, despite what might be considered as "normalized" advantage. However paradoxical this may seem, in terms of policy implications this could be achieved through providing better treatment to males; which women rights organizations argue to be discriminatory against females. Yet, critics argue that UN provide a number of strategies and plans giving preferential treatment to women and girls, that is not seen as discriminatory towards men; not only for health issues but also for education or job opportunities.^[4] Furthermore, it has been argued that the GDI does not account for sex-selective abortion, meaning that the penalty levied against a country for gender inequality is less because it affects less of the population (see Sen, Missing Women).^[1]

Debates surrounding income gaps

Another area of debate surrounding the GDI is in the area of income gaps. The GDI considers income-gaps in terms of actual earned income. This has been said to be problematic because often, men may make more money than women, but their income is shared. Additionally, the GDI has been criticized because it does not consider the value of care work as well as other work performed in the informal sector (such as cleaning, cooking, housework, and childcare). Another criticism of the GDI is that it only takes gender into account as a factor for inequality; it does not, however, consider inequality among class, region or race, which could be very significant.^[1] Another criticism with the income-gap portion of the GDI is that it is heavily dependent on gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national product (GNP). For most countries, the earned-income gap accounts for more than 90% of the gender penalty.

Suggested alternatives

As was suggested by Halis Akder in 1994, one alternative to the Gender Development Index (GDI) would be the calculation of a separate male and female Human Development Index (HDI). Another suggested alternative is the Gender Gap Measure which could be interpreted directly as a measure of gender inequality, instead of having to be compared to the HDI as the GDI is. It would average the female-male gaps in human development and use a gender-gap in labor force participation instead of earned income. In the 2010 Human Development Report, another alternative to the GDI, namely, the Gender Inequality Index (GII) was proposed in order to address some of the shortcomings of the GDI. This new experimental measure contains three dimensions: Reproductive Health, Empowerment, and Labor Market Participation.^[2]

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The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual Human Development Index report published by the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the New Economics Foundation in 2006. Each country's HPI value is a function of its average subjective life satisfaction, life expectancy at birth, and ecological footprint per capita. The exact function is a little more complex, but conceptually it approximates multiplying life satisfaction and life expectancy and dividing that by the ecological footprint. The index is weighted to give progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints.

The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions. It was introduced at the same time as the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) but measures topics like empowerment that are not covered by that index. Since it was first adopted, the GEM has been employed in several academic studies related to empowerment as a reliable metric for comparing gender empowerment across different countries. It has also faced some harsh criticisms, and many alterations and alternatives have been proposed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Where-to-be-born Index</span> Index by the Economist Intelligence Unit

The where-to-be-born index was an index last published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in 2013, which aimed to measure which country would provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years after its publication.

The Global Gender Gap Report is an index designed to measure gender equality. It was first published in 2006 by the World Economic Forum.

Released by UNESCO, the Gender Parity Index (GPI) is a socioeconomic index usually designed to measure the relative access to education of males and females. It is used by international organizations, particularly in measuring the progress of developing countries. For example, some UNESCO documents consider gender parity in literacy.

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is an index that measures discrimination against women. It solely focuses on social institutions which are formal and informal laws, social norms and customary practices that impact the roles of women. The SIGI is a multifaceted measure that focuses on four dimensions: Discrimination in the family, Restricted physical integrity, Restricted access to productive and financial resources, and Restricted civil liberties.

This article includes several ranked indicators for Chile's regions.

The OECD Better Life Index, created in May 2011 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is an initiative pioneering the development of economic indicators which better capture multiple dimensions of economic and social progress.

The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). According to the UNDP, this index is a composite measure to quantify the loss of achievement within a country due to gender inequality. It uses three dimensions to measure opportunity cost: reproductive health, empowerment, and labor market participation. The new index was introduced as an experimental measure to remedy the shortcomings of the previous indicators, the Gender Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), both of which were introduced in the 1995 Human Development Report.

Measures of gender equality or inequality are statistical tools employed to quantify the concept of gender equality.

Gender parity is a statistical measure used to describe ratios between men and women, or boys and girls, in a given population. Gender parity may refer to the proportionate representation of men and women in a given group, also referred to as sex ratio, or it may mean the ratio between any quantifiable indicator among men against the same indicator among women.

References

1 2 3 4 5 Klasen S. UNDP's Gender-Related Measures: Some Conceptual Problems and Possible Solutions. Journal of Human Development [serial online]. July 2006;7(2):243-274. Available from: EconLit with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 26, 2011.
1 2 Klasen, Stephan1; Schuler, Dana. Reforming the Gender-Related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure: Implementing Some Specific Proposals. Feminist Economics. January 2011 (1) 1 - 30
↑ Nations, United. "Gender Development Index (GDI)". United Nations Development Programme - Human Development Reports. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
↑ "What we do". UN Women. Retrieved 2022-01-06.

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[Gender-1] 1 2 3 4 5 Klasen S. UNDP's Gender-Related Measures: Some Conceptual Problems and Possible Solutions. Journal of Human Development [serial online]. July 2006;7(2):243-274. Available from: EconLit with Full Text, Ipswich, MA. Accessed September 26, 2011.

[Reforming-2] 1 2 Klasen, Stephan1; Schuler, Dana. Reforming the Gender-Related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure: Implementing Some Specific Proposals. Feminist Economics. January 2011 (1) 1 - 30

[3] Nations, United. "Gender Development Index (GDI)". United Nations Development Programme - Human Development Reports. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

[4] "What we do". UN Women. Retrieved 2022-01-06.

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