Gender Inequality Index

UNDP Gender Inequality Index across reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market (0 = equality, 1 = maximum inequality). Our World in Data, 2016–2023.

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Avg (2023)
0.3
0.00pp vs 2022
Improving
0
of 172 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
172
±0.5pp band

Gender Inequality Index

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2016–2023.

0.10.20.30.40.6 20162017201820192020202120222023
AsiaEuropeAfricaAmericas

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇰🇼 Kuwait 0.2 +0.05pp
🇫🇯 Fiji 0.4 +0.04pp
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0.2 +0.03pp
🇰🇭 Cambodia 0.5 +0.02pp
🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda 0.2 +0.02pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇧🇯 Benin 0.6 -0.07pp
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone 0.6 -0.05pp
🇹🇴 Tonga 0.4 -0.04pp
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 0.6 -0.02pp
🇮🇳 India 0.4 -0.02pp

By group

Change by group, latest period.

Africa 0.00pp
Asia 0.00pp
Americas 0.00pp
Europe 0.00pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Africa 49 0.5 0.00pp
Asia 48 0.3 0.00pp
Americas 32 0.3 0.00pp
Europe 43 0.1 0.00pp