Barbados vs North America: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index

Barbados
2.25 GPI
in 2011
North America
1.35 GPI
in 2019
Barbados rank
4th
North America rank
5th

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index over time

  • Barbados
  • North America
0.511.522.5197019942019

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 2.25 GPI against 1.35 GPI in North America, a difference of 0.9 GPI.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.7 times North America's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 17 shared years of data; in 1971 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 4th and North America ranks 5th of 177 countries.

Across the 5 decades both report, Barbados averaged higher in 4 and North America in 1.

Head to head by decade

Decade Barbados North America Difference Ahead
1970s 0.8353 GPI 0.7569 GPI 0.0784 GPI Barbados
1980s 1.11 GPI 1.13 GPI 0.0174 GPI North America
1990s 1.68 GPI 1.28 GPI 0.4 GPI Barbados
2000s 2.38 GPI 1.34 GPI 1.04 GPI Barbados
2010s 2.21 GPI 1.36 GPI 0.8498 GPI Barbados

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index, Barbados or North America?
Barbados, at 2.25 GPI against 1.35 GPI in North America as of 2011.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index between Barbados and North America?
0.9 GPI, with Barbados ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and North America?
17 years are reported by both, from 1971 to 2011.
How do Barbados and North America rank globally for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
Barbados ranks 4th and North America ranks 5th of 177 countries.
Where does this data come from?
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Barbados vs North America: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 01 September 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/compare/school-life-expectancy-tertiary-gender-parity-index-gpi/barbados/north-america/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/compare/school-life-expectancy-tertiary-gender-parity-index-gpi/barbados/north-america/">Barbados vs North America: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
222 places, 6,910 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.