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

Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
0.9256 GPI
in 2018
Timor-Leste
1.03 GPI
in 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank
41st
Timor-Leste rank
43rd

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

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
  • Timor-Leste
00.250.50.751197019942019

How they compare

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

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

Across all 13 years both countries report, Timor-Leste has been ahead every year.

Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 41st and Timor-Leste ranks 43rd of 45 groups.

Timor-Leste has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) Timor-Leste Difference Ahead
2000s 0.8601 GPI 0.9326 GPI 0.0725 GPI Timor-Leste
2010s 0.9123 GPI 0.9843 GPI 0.072 GPI Timor-Leste

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index, Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) or Timor-Leste?
Timor-Leste, at 1.03 GPI against 0.9256 GPI in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) as of 2019.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index between Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) and Timor-Leste?
0.1044 GPI, with Timor-Leste ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) and Timor-Leste?
13 years are reported by both, from 2004 to 2018.
How do Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) and Timor-Leste rank globally for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index?
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 41st and Timor-Leste ranks 43rd of 45 groups.
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.