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| Gender Development Index× | Human Development Index× | |
|---|---|---|
| Field≠ | Gender Studies | Development Studies |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 1995 | 1990 |
| Originator≠ | UNDP Human Development Report Office | Mahbub ul Haq & Amartya Sen; UNDP Human Development Report Office |
| Type≠ | Composite development index (ratio form) | Composite human development index |
| Seminal source≠ | United Nations Development Programme (2014). Human Development Report 2014 — Sustaining Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience (Technical Note on the Gender Development Index). UNDP. link ↗ | UNDP (2022). Human Development Report 2021-22, Technical Notes. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report Office, New York. link ↗ |
| Aliases≠ | GDI, Gender-related Development Index, UNDP Gender Development Index | HDI, UNDP Human Development Index, Human Development Indicator, Composite Human Development Measure |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | The Gender Development Index (GDI) is a UNDP composite that measures gender gaps in human development by computing the Human Development Index separately for women and men and expressing the female value as a ratio of the male value. First introduced as the Gender-related Development Index in the 1995 Human Development Report and redesigned in 2014, it covers the same three dimensions as the HDI — a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living — and reports how far female human development falls short of, or exceeds, male human development. | The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite summary measure of average achievement in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living. Conceived by Mahbub ul Haq with Amartya Sen and first published in the UNDP Human Development Report of 1990, it was designed as a deliberate alternative to GNI per capita, asserting that people and their capabilities — not economic growth alone — are the ultimate criterion for assessing the development of a country. Each dimension is reduced to a normalized index between zero and one, and the three are combined by a geometric mean. |
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