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

Kuwait
2.06 GPI
in 2019
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
1.27 GPI
in 2019
Kuwait rank
8th
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) rank
7th

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index over time

  • Kuwait
  • Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
11.522.5197019942019

How they compare

Kuwait currently reports 2.06 GPI against 1.27 GPI in Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income), a difference of 0.79 GPI.

That makes Kuwait's figure about 1.6 times Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)'s.

Across all 37 years both countries report, Kuwait has been ahead every year.

Kuwait ranks 8th and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) ranks 7th of 177 countries.

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

Head to head by decade

Decade Kuwait Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1970s 1.46 GPI 0.8364 GPI 0.6233 GPI Kuwait
1980s 1.41 GPI 0.9033 GPI 0.5048 GPI Kuwait
1990s 1.76 GPI 1.08 GPI 0.6781 GPI Kuwait
2000s 2.29 GPI 1.17 GPI 1.13 GPI Kuwait
2010s 2.09 GPI 1.27 GPI 0.8236 GPI Kuwait

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index, Kuwait or Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
Kuwait, at 2.06 GPI against 1.27 GPI in Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) as of 2019.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index between Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
0.79 GPI, with Kuwait ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)?
37 years are reported by both, from 1971 to 2019.
How do Kuwait and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) rank globally for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
Kuwait ranks 8th and Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) ranks 7th 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.

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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.