# ISO 5218:1977 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO 5218:1977, item title is Information interchange — Representation of human sexes; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC WD 5218 | ISO/IEC 5218:2004; withdrawn / published date is 1977-09-01, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO 5218:1977 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information interchange — Representation of human sexes _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC WD 5218 | ISO/IEC 5218:2004
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 1977-09-01 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 11219,IS,,ISO 5218:1977,Information interchange — Representation of human sexes,Échange d'information — Représentation des sexes humains,1977-09-01,1,['35.040.50'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32,9599,,"[31365,36266]","['en','fr']",1,<p>A uniform representation of human sexes for information interchange is defined. Is intended to - reduce time for recording and formatting representation of sexes and transmit them; improve clarity and accuracy of interchange; minimize amoung of human intervention for communicating the representation of sexes; reduce costs. Meets requirements of most applications needing to code human sexes. Provides numeric code independent of language-devired codes.</p>

## Source

- https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv

Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01.
Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).