# ISO/IEC 5218:2004 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards

For ISO/IEC 5218:2004, item title is Information technology — Codes for the representation of human sexes; status code is 9599; successor is ISO/IEC 5218:2022; withdrawn / published date is 2004-07-08, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05.

- **Identifier:** ISO/IEC 5218:2004 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Item title:** Information technology — Codes for the representation of human sexes _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Successor:** ISO/IEC 5218:2022
- **Withdrawn / published date:** 2004-07-08 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> 36266,IS,,ISO/IEC 5218:2004,Information technology — Codes for the representation of human sexes,Technologies de l'information — Codes de représentation des sexes humains,2004-07-08,1,['35.040.50'],ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32,9599,[11219],[81682],"['en','fr']",17,"<p>ISO/IEC 5218:2004 specifies a uniform representation of human sexes for the interchange of information. It provides a set of numeric codes that are independent of language-derived codes and as such is intended to provide a common basis for the international exchange of information containing human sex data.</p><p>In providing numeric codes for the representation of human sexes, ISO/IEC 5218:2004 aims to:</p><ul><li>reduce the time requi

## 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Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).