Table 1.

Countries’ Gender Gap Scoring-Index and Human Development

	2018 GGR (GGI)*	2019 GGR (GGI)**
Ireland	9 (0.80)	23 (0.093)
Spain	29 (0.75)	16 (0.07)
USA	51 (0.72)	46 (0.2)
Argentina	36 (0.73)	75 (0.33)
South Africa	19 (0.76)	93 (0.41)
Nigeria	133 (0.62)	no data
Sudan	no data	138 (0.55)

^*Data for 2018 are from https://countryeconomy.com/demography/global-gender-gap-index;

^**Data for 2019 are from the Global Gender Gap Report, https://www.weforum.org/reports/ab6795a1-960c-42b2-b3d5-587eccda6023

GGR, Gender Gap Ranking; GGI, Gender Gap Index, where 1 represents parity, 0 imparity

Dark grey, countries with very high human development or standard of living(HDI);

Medium grey, countries with high HDI; Light grey, countries with low HDI.