Human Development from the Perspective of Gender: Ranking Countries

Males or females, which are ahead? In health, education and income? And where, in which countries? How is human development distributed by gender over the World? The Gender Development Index and the Gender Inequality Index of the United Nations Development Programme UNDP provide some information, but it is biased. Here instead, the direct ranking of countries by component indicator ranks is explained. It iss an objective method to process the gender-specific human development indicators entirely without distorting subjective transformations, and circumventing the need for a gender index. The results show that the lower female mortality now strongly compensates for lower income, especially and fully in highly developed regions. Conversely, in countries and regions of low human development females appear far behind.