School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428): School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) was 0.9798 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428), 1999–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2024, school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) stood at 0.9798 GPIA.
That represents a change of up 0.9% on the previous year and down 5.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) peaked at 1.06 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.8264 GPIA, in 1999.
ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) ranks 134th of 221 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 0.8264 GPIA | — |
| 2000 | 0.8324 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 0.8425 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 0.8514 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2003 | 0.9318 GPIA | +9.4% |
| 2004 | 0.9263 GPIA | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 0.94 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2006 | 0.948 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 0.9548 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2008 | 0.9752 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2009 | 0.9847 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 0.9832 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 0.9835 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.9861 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 1.04 GPIA | +5.3% |
| 2014 | 1.03 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 1.04 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 1.06 GPIA | +2.8% |
| 2017 | 1.06 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 0.9711 GPIA | -8.3% |
| 2019 | 0.9762 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 0.9771 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 0.9733 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2022 | 0.9685 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2023 | 0.9714 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 0.9798 GPIA | +0.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.8264 GPIA | 0.8264 GPIA | 0.8264 GPIA | 1 |
| 2000s | 0.9187 GPIA | 0.8324 GPIA | 0.9847 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.01 GPIA | 0.9711 GPIA | 1.06 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.974 GPIA | 0.9685 GPIA | 0.9798 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
More education data for ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), gaps filled 101.13 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 84.88 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), annual growth rate 2.87 % change on previous year (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 6.43 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), annual growth -0.6662 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 175.95 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), annual growth rate 3.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, both sexes (number), annual growth 4.24 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, female (number), gaps filled 26.24 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 193.66 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) was 0.9798 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.06 GPIA in 2016.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8264 GPIA in 1999.
- How does ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) rank for school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index?
- ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) ranks 134th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index rising or falling in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 5.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) 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.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 26 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).
About this data
February 2026 Data Release