A good place to start is by looking at data for 2015.

• Click on Afghanistan in the Bottom 10 Countries table to zoom in and hover over for more information.
• You see that Afghanistan has one of the lowest Gender Disparity Indexes yet received over 20% of GDP as Aid.
• Select the Employment Group and the first World Bank Indicator (Contributing family workers, female...)
• Afghanistan has a very high value, other countries in Aisa and Africa are simila versus countries in Europe, North America and Oceana
• Click on the home button to zoom back out on the map.

Check out the line chart to compare with other countries in the same region and see how gender indicators are related over time, and take a look at the GDI page for GDI trends

In this section, you can create two line charts for comparison purpose. One way of comparison is looking at trend with two different metrics for same country over time. For example, Afghanistan is one the countries that consistently shows the lowest GDI in the world last 20 years. We can see however that the humanitarian 'Aid as % of GDP' steadily decreased last 10 years compared to the previous 10 years.

Another way of comparison is looking at same or different metrics for two different countries. For example, pick calculated GDI for Afghanistan in the first chart and India for the second chart. We see that GDI of India improved last 10 years compared to the previous 10 years while GDI of Afghanistan doesn't show significant sign of improvement over the years.

The dotted line in both of the charts represents the regional average line of the selected measure of the selected country.

In an attempt to summarize the complexity of gender disparity information, we created the Gender Disparity Index (GDI) from the data provided by the UN and the World Bank. On this chart, you can see each country's GDI over time by hovering over the country name. Click on the country name to toggle the country's line so you can compare multiple countries. Click on the continent buttons at the top to see all countries in each continent. The GDI ranges from -100 (completely male oriented) to +100 (completely female oriented.

A note of caution: The GDI is based only on educational, employment, economic and healthcare metrics. It does NOT include social, religious or cultural indicators like gender prejudice, forced marriage, violence against women etc. For example, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is common in some tribes in Zimbabwe, but Zimbabwe's 2019 GDI (-7) is virtually identical to that of Switzerland (-6).