Comparing two data sets: GDP per capita (World Bank) and GII: Gender Inequality Index (United Nations Development Programme), I explored the data comparing gross domestic product per capita in 2013, to the UN Gender Inequality ranking. The GII takes into account three dimensions when measuring inequlity between men and women: reproductive health, empowerment, and the labor market. From there, each country is given a numeric score, where the closer the value to 1, the greater the inequality. The closer the value is to 0, the more equality. Since the UN recognizes that there is no country with perfect equality between genders, the scale is adjusted. (Thus some countries are seen with perfect 1's in the map below) I wanted to explore the data sets and see if there was any correlation between the degree of gender inquality and the GDP of a country.

In the graph below, countries are arranged by GII rank with the most equal countries on the left, and the least equal on the right. The bars represent the country's GDP Per capita in 2013. While the GDPs seem sporadic, some of the large outliers towards the right (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Brunei etc.) also are also major exporters of oil, thus skewing the data. Apart from the dramatic outliers, there is a slight downward trend, indicating that as gender inequality increases, GDP decreases.

The GII Dataset also included an educational attainment score that was included in the overall GII score. Countries were given a numeric value that refleceted the equality of receiving an education. (The closer the number to 1, the more equal.) In the map below this data is isolated from the overall GII index and is represented by circles on each country. The larger the circle, the higher equality. Each country is also on a color scale representing their respective GDP per capite. The higher the GDP, the greener the country. By clicking the circle on each country, you can see the GDP per capita, and Educatonal Attainment Score.