Kuwait vs Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income): School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index

Kuwait
1.19 GPI
in 2015
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
1.06 GPI
in 2019
Kuwait rank
5th
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) rank
5th

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index over time

  • Kuwait
  • Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
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How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 1.19 GPI against 1.06 GPI in Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income), a difference of 0.13 GPI.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.1 times Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)'s.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 32 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) ahead.

Kuwait ranks 5th and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) ranks 5th of 175 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Kuwait averaged higher in 3 and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) in 2.

Head to head by decade

Decade Kuwait Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1970s 0.8682 GPI 0.976 GPI 0.1078 GPI Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
1980s 0.9433 GPI 0.9915 GPI 0.0482 GPI Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
1990s 1.05 GPI 1.01 GPI 0.0405 GPI Kuwait
2000s 1.14 GPI 1.03 GPI 0.1105 GPI Kuwait
2010s 1.18 GPI 1.05 GPI 0.1218 GPI Kuwait

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index, Kuwait or Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
Kuwait, at 1.19 GPI against 1.06 GPI in Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) as of 2015.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index between Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
0.13 GPI, with Kuwait ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
32 years are reported by both, from 1971 to 2015.
How do Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) rank globally for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index?
Kuwait ranks 5th and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) ranks 5th of 175 countries.
Where does this data come from?
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, 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 to tertiary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
220 places, 6,052 data points, 1970–2019
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.