School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in Cameroon
Cameroon: School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index was 0.9175 GPIA in 2024. β² Rising
School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in Cameroon, 1971β2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
Cameroon recorded 0.9175 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in 2024. That is the highest value across all 51 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 4.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in Cameroon peaked at 0.9175 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.7314 GPIA, in 1971.
That places Cameroon 198th out of 209 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 51 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.7845 GPIA | 0.7314 GPIA | 0.8253 GPIA | 9 |
| 1980s | 0.8419 GPIA | 0.8308 GPIA | 0.8513 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.8635 GPIA | 0.8175 GPIA | 0.9155 GPIA | 9 |
| 2000s | 0.8475 GPIA | 0.8307 GPIA | 0.8612 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.879 GPIA | 0.8536 GPIA | 0.8925 GPIA | 9 |
| 2020s | 0.9098 GPIA | 0.8991 GPIA | 0.9175 GPIA | 4 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
More education data for Cameroon
- Duration of pre primary education 2 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 4 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 56.1% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 41.1% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 114.4% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 121,453 (2024)
- Fertility rate vs mean years of schooling 4.26 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 109.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in Cameroon?
- School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in Cameroon was 0.9175 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9175 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7314 GPIA in 1971.
- How does Cameroon rank for school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index?
- Cameroon ranks 198th out of 209 countries with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release