Saint Lucia vs Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income): School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index

Saint Lucia
1.08 GPI
in 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
0.9152 GPI
in 2017
Saint Lucia rank
40th
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank
40th

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

  • Saint Lucia
  • Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
00.250.50.751197019942019

How they compare

Saint Lucia currently reports 1.08 GPI against 0.9152 GPI in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income), a difference of 0.1648 GPI.

That makes Saint Lucia's figure about 1.2 times Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s.

Across all 15 years both countries report, Saint Lucia has been ahead every year.

Saint Lucia ranks 40th and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 40th of 175 countries.

Saint Lucia has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Saint Lucia Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1970s 1.05 GPI 0.7405 GPI 0.3059 GPI Saint Lucia
1980s 1.07 GPI 0.7635 GPI 0.303 GPI Saint Lucia
1990s 1.08 GPI 0.8131 GPI 0.2716 GPI Saint Lucia
2000s 1.08 GPI 0.8432 GPI 0.2372 GPI Saint Lucia
2010s 1.06 GPI 0.9132 GPI 0.1514 GPI Saint Lucia

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index, Saint Lucia or Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
Saint Lucia, at 1.08 GPI against 0.9152 GPI in Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) as of 2019.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index between Saint Lucia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
0.1648 GPI, with Saint Lucia ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Saint Lucia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?
15 years are reported by both, from 1977 to 2017.
How do Saint Lucia and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) rank globally for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index?
Saint Lucia ranks 40th and Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) ranks 40th 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.