Gender development index statistics - countries compared

Rank	Countries	Amount
# 1	Norway:	0.956
# 2	Sweden:	0.943
# 3	Denmark:	0.941
# 4	Finland:	0.94
# 5	Netherlands:	0.938
# 6	Canada:	0.937
= 7	Germany:	0.933
= 7	New Zealand:	0.933
# 9	Australia:	0.932
# 10	United States:	0.927
# 11	Austria:	0.926
# 12	Switzerland:	0.925
# 13	Belgium:	0.923
# 14	United Kingdom:	0.921
# 15	Ireland:	0.92
# 16	Italy:	0.917
# 17	Japan:	0.915
	Weighted average:	0.9

DEFINITION: Gender development index - Range is from .000 (lowest) to 1.000 (highest).

SOURCE: UNDP, Human Development Report 2002 (Oxford University Press, NY, 2002)

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COMMENTARY

Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor
14th March 2005

In response to Spud -- the gender development index measures how human development indices for longevity, knowledge and standards of living are differentiated by gender. The less the differentiation in such development as overall education against education for girls, expected number of healthy years for women and men, life expectancy at birth and so on, the higher the gender development index. For more on definitions, see: http://www.undp.org/hdr2002/faq.html

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