School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index was 0.9197 GPIA in 2020. ▲ Rising
Latest (2020)
0.9197 GPIA
Change on year
down 0.0%
Rank
217th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9197 GPIA
in 2019
All-time low
0.6672 GPIA
in 1970
Years of data
48
1970–2020
School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1970–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) is 0.9197 GPIA, measured in 2020.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.9197 GPIA in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.6672 GPIA, in 1970.
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 217th of 221 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 48 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.6672 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.6673 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 0.6773 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 1973 | 0.6819 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1974 | 0.6898 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 0.6894 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 0.6942 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1977 | 0.698 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 1978 | 0.7039 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 0.7053 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1980 | 0.7176 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 1981 | 0.7255 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1982 | 0.7339 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 1983 | 0.7392 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1984 | 0.7466 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1985 | 0.7519 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1986 | 0.7571 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 0.762 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1988 | 0.7612 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1989 | 0.7617 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1990 | 0.7614 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 1991 | 0.7615 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 0.7626 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1993 | 0.7624 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 1994 | 0.7607 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 1998 | 0.7558 GPIA | -0.6% |
| 1999 | 0.7534 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 0.7679 GPIA | +1.9% |
| 2001 | 0.784 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2002 | 0.7957 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 0.7971 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 0.8029 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2005 | 0.825 GPIA | +2.8% |
| 2006 | 0.8309 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 0.8293 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2008 | 0.8501 GPIA | +2.5% |
| 2009 | 0.8618 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 0.8673 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2011 | 0.8628 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2012 | 0.8633 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 0.865 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 0.8831 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2015 | 0.8859 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 0.9006 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2017 | 0.9106 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 0.9093 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 0.9197 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 0.9197 GPIA | -0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6874 GPIA | 0.6672 GPIA | 0.7053 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7457 GPIA | 0.7176 GPIA | 0.762 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.7597 GPIA | 0.7534 GPIA | 0.7626 GPIA | 7 |
| 2000s | 0.8145 GPIA | 0.7679 GPIA | 0.8618 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8868 GPIA | 0.8628 GPIA | 0.9197 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9197 GPIA | 0.9197 GPIA | 0.9197 GPIA | 1 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- 214 Central African Republic 0.7866 GPIA compare
- 215 Afghanistan 0.7748 GPIA compare
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 3.50 million (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) -3.14 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number), gaps 907,217 (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) -2.46 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 792,452 (2016)
- Teachers in primary education, male (number), gaps filled 197,633 (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 316,507 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.35 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 2.4 % change on previous year (2020)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) -2.82 % change on previous year (2016)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- School life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.9197 GPIA in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9197 GPIA in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6672 GPIA in 1970.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 217th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary, adjusted gender parity index rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 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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February 2026 Data Release