Sri Lanka vs Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income): School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index

Sri Lanka
1.03 GPI
in 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
0.9256 GPI
in 2018
Sri Lanka rank
42nd
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank
41st

School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index over time

  • Sri Lanka
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
00.250.50.751197019942018

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 1.03 GPI against 0.9256 GPI in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income), a difference of 0.1044 GPI.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s.

Across all 23 years both countries report, Sri Lanka has been ahead every year.

Sri Lanka ranks 42nd and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 41st of 193 countries.

Sri Lanka has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Sri Lanka Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1970s 0.9829 GPI 0.7329 GPI 0.25 GPI Sri Lanka
1980s 1.02 GPI 0.7785 GPI 0.2425 GPI Sri Lanka
1990s 1.03 GPI 0.8191 GPI 0.2098 GPI Sri Lanka
2010s 1.01 GPI 0.9098 GPI 0.104 GPI Sri Lanka

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index, Sri Lanka or Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
Sri Lanka, at 1.03 GPI against 0.9256 GPI in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) as of 2018.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index between Sri Lanka and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
0.1044 GPI, with Sri Lanka ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Sri Lanka and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
23 years are reported by both, from 1976 to 2018.
How do Sri Lanka and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank globally for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index?
Sri Lanka ranks 42nd and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 41st of 193 countries.
Where does this data come from?
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
238 places, 7,783 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

Ratio of female school life expectancy to the male school life expectancy. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a value greater than 1 indicates disparity in favor of females.