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GENDER -RELATED DEVELOPMENT INDEX IN SOUTH ASIA
| Country | HDI Rank | Gender related Development Index (1998) | Life Expectancy at birth (years) 1998 | Adult literacy rate (%age 15 and above ) 1998 | Combined Primary Secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio (%) 1997 | GDP Per capita ( PPP US $) 1998(a) | HDI rank minus GDI Rank (b) | |||||
| Bank | Value | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | |||
| Bangladesh | 146 | 121 | 0.441 | 58.7 | 58.6 | 28.6 | 51.1 | 30 | 40 | 744 | 1949 | 0 |
| Bhutan | 142 | - | - | 62.5 | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| India | 128 | 108 | 0.545 | 63.3 | 62.5 | 43.5 | 67.1 | 46 | 61 | 1105 | 2987 | -2 |
| Maldives | 89 | 72 | 0.720 | 63.8 | 66.1 | 96 | 96 | 75 | 74 | 3009 | 5100 | 4 |
| Nepal | 144 | 119 | 0.449 | 57.6 | 58.1 | 21.7 | 56.9 | 49 | 69 | 783 | 1521 | 0 |
| Pakistan | 135 | 115 | 0.489 | 65.6 | 63.3 | 28.9 | 58 | 28 | 56 | 776 | 2594 | -3 |
| Sri Lanka | 84 | 68 | 0.727 | 75.6 | 71.1 | 88.3 | 94.1 | 67 | 65 | 1927 | 4050 | 4 |
Notes
a=Data refer to the latest available year.
b=The HDI ranks used in this column are those recalculated for the universe
of 143 Countries. A positive figure indicates that the GDI rank is higher
than the HDI rank, a negative the opposite.
Source:
Column 1 & 2 : Human Development report office calculations : See
the technical note for details, columns 3 and 4 : Interpreted on the basis
of life expectancy data from UN 1998 c; Column 5 & 6 : UNESCO 2000
a , Column 7 & 8 : UNESCO 2000c, Columns 9 & 10 unless otherwise
noted, calculated on the following: for GDP per capita ( PPP US $) , World
Bank 2000a, for wages, wage Data from ILO 1999 c, for economic activity
rate, data on economically active population from ILO 1996, for population
shares, population data from UN 1998 c, for details on the calculations
of GDP per capita ( PPP U S $ ) by gender see the technical note of the
Report ; Column 11 : Human Development Report office calculations
Human Development Report 2000 ,( Page no 164) UNDP , OUP, New York,
2000.