School life expectancy, pre-primary, female (years) (years female) in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)
ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118): School life expectancy, pre-primary, female (years) (years female) was 0.6804 years in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, pre-primary, female in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118), 1981–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.
Analysis
ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) recorded 0.6804 years for school life expectancy, pre-primary, female in 2024. That is the highest value across all 41 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.7% on the previous year and up 35.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, pre-primary, female in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) peaked at 0.6804 years in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.2068 years, in 1997.
That places ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) 184th out of 221 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 41 years of available data.
School life expectancy, pre-primary, female (years) (years female) in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118), year by year
| Year | years | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 0.2378 years | — |
| 1982 | 0.2405 years | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 0.2303 years | -4.3% |
| 1984 | 0.2265 years | -1.7% |
| 1985 | 0.2216 years | -2.1% |
| 1986 | 0.2226 years | +0.5% |
| 1990 | 0.2189 years | -1.7% |
| 1991 | 0.2084 years | -4.8% |
| 1992 | 0.2137 years | +2.5% |
| 1993 | 0.2135 years | -0.1% |
| 1994 | 0.2118 years | -0.8% |
| 1995 | 0.2084 years | -1.6% |
| 1996 | 0.2079 years | -0.2% |
| 1997 | 0.2068 years | -0.5% |
| 1998 | 0.2081 years | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 0.2156 years | +3.6% |
| 2000 | 0.2259 years | +4.8% |
| 2001 | 0.2335 years | +3.4% |
| 2002 | 0.247 years | +5.8% |
| 2003 | 0.2618 years | +6.0% |
| 2004 | 0.2747 years | +4.9% |
| 2005 | 0.2959 years | +7.7% |
| 2006 | 0.3199 years | +8.1% |
| 2007 | 0.3633 years | +13.6% |
| 2008 | 0.3639 years | +0.2% |
| 2009 | 0.3683 years | +1.2% |
| 2010 | 0.3832 years | +4.0% |
| 2011 | 0.3985 years | +4.0% |
| 2012 | 0.4551 years | +14.2% |
| 2013 | 0.4889 years | +7.4% |
| 2014 | 0.5027 years | +2.8% |
| 2015 | 0.5264 years | +4.7% |
| 2016 | 0.571 years | +8.5% |
| 2017 | 0.588 years | +3.0% |
| 2018 | 0.5942 years | +1.1% |
| 2019 | 0.6088 years | +2.4% |
| 2020 | 0.6157 years | +1.1% |
| 2021 | 0.6018 years | -2.3% |
| 2022 | 0.6572 years | +9.2% |
| 2023 | 0.676 years | +2.9% |
| 2024 | 0.6804 years | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.2299 years | 0.2216 years | 0.2405 years | 6 |
| 1990s | 0.2113 years | 0.2068 years | 0.2189 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.2954 years | 0.2259 years | 0.3683 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.5117 years | 0.3832 years | 0.6088 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.6462 years | 0.6018 years | 0.6804 years | 5 |
Countries ranked near ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)
More education data for ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 4.38 % change on previous year (2021)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 20.57 million (2023)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 3.68 % change on previous year (2023)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 23.44 million (2023)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 3.05 % change on previous year (2023)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 16.21 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 2.15 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 5.08 million (2021)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) 3.63 % change on previous year (2021)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 5.51 % change on previous year (2021)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, pre-primary, female in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)?
- School life expectancy, pre-primary, female in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) was 0.6804 years in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, pre-primary, female recorded in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6804 years in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, pre-primary, female recorded in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.2068 years in 1997.
- How does ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) rank for school life expectancy, pre-primary, female?
- ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) ranks 184th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, pre-primary, female rising or falling in ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 35.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ECA: Least Developed Countries (unsdcode:98118) data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, pre-primary, female (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release