School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries
ALECSO: Member Countries: School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9613 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
Latest (2024)
0.9613 GPIA
Change on year
up 0.2%
Rank
184th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9613 GPIA
in 2024
All-time low
0.8356 GPIA
in 1996
Years of data
31
1994–2024
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries, 1994–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ALECSO: Member Countries recorded 0.9613 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in 2024. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries peaked at 0.9613 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.8356 GPIA, in 1996.
ALECSO: Member Countries ranks 184th of 221 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries, year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 0.8471 GPIA | — |
| 1995 | 0.8541 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 0.8356 GPIA | -2.2% |
| 1997 | 0.8586 GPIA | +2.8% |
| 1998 | 0.8648 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1999 | 0.8708 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2000 | 0.878 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2001 | 0.8872 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 0.8917 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 0.9047 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2004 | 0.9059 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 0.9094 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2006 | 0.9121 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 0.9176 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 0.9275 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2009 | 0.9277 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.9277 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.9242 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2012 | 0.9283 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 0.9313 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 0.937 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 0.9379 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 0.9425 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 0.9448 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 0.9466 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 0.9511 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 0.9525 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 0.9538 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 0.9568 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 0.959 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 0.9613 GPIA | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.8552 GPIA | 0.8356 GPIA | 0.8708 GPIA | 6 |
| 2000s | 0.9062 GPIA | 0.878 GPIA | 0.9277 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9371 GPIA | 0.9242 GPIA | 0.9511 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9567 GPIA | 0.9525 GPIA | 0.9613 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ALECSO: Member Countries
- 181 Papua New Guinea 0.9409 GPIA compare
- 182 Togo 0.9399 GPIA compare
- 183 Antigua and Barbuda 0.9387 GPIA compare
- 184 Eswatini 0.9366 GPIA compare
- 185 Iraq 0.9353 GPIA compare
- 186 Benin 0.9206 GPIA compare
- 187 Mozambique 0.9205 GPIA compare
More education data for ALECSO: Member Countries
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 14.56 million (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) 7.04 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number), gaps 7.14 million (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 6.95 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 7.42 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, male (number), gaps filled 840,626 (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 1.74 million (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 0.6536 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 21.05 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ALECSO: Member Countries was 0.9613 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ALECSO: Member Countries?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9613 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ALECSO: Member Countries?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8356 GPIA in 1996.
- How does ALECSO: Member Countries rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ALECSO: Member Countries ranks 184th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ALECSO: Member Countries?
- Over the last ten years it is up 2.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ALECSO: Member Countries data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release