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Figure 11.6
Human Development
Index by Gender,
Gender Gap and Gender
Development Index, by
Developing
Region, 2017
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human development. Worldwide, the average HDI value for women (0.705) is 5.9%
lower than that for men (0.749). Much of the gap is due to women’s lower income
and educational attainment in many countries. The gender gap is widest in low
human development countries, where the average HDI value is 13.8% lower for
women than for men. Among developing regions, the gender gap is narrowest in
Latin America and the Caribbean (2.3%) and widest in South Asia (16.3%) and the
Arab States (14.5%) (Figure 11.6). The second composite ...