School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)
ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.8917 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101), 1997–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) is 0.8917 GPIA, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 28 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.0% on the previous year and up 5.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) peaked at 0.8917 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.7495 GPIA, in 1998.
That places ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) 220th out of 221 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 28 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 0.7693 GPIA | — |
| 1998 | 0.7495 GPIA | -2.6% |
| 1999 | 0.7496 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.7702 GPIA | +2.8% |
| 2001 | 0.7877 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2002 | 0.7884 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2003 | 0.7845 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2004 | 0.7884 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 0.7866 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2006 | 0.7878 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2007 | 0.7995 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2008 | 0.8 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2009 | 0.8069 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2010 | 0.8146 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2011 | 0.8223 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 0.8413 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2013 | 0.8376 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2014 | 0.8424 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 0.8499 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2016 | 0.8505 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 0.8529 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 0.8545 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 0.8559 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2020 | 0.8599 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2021 | 0.8659 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2022 | 0.8782 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2023 | 0.8832 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2024 | 0.8917 GPIA | +1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.7561 GPIA | 0.7495 GPIA | 0.7693 GPIA | 3 |
| 2000s | 0.79 GPIA | 0.7702 GPIA | 0.8069 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8422 GPIA | 0.8146 GPIA | 0.8559 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.8758 GPIA | 0.8599 GPIA | 0.8917 GPIA | 5 |
More education data for ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 85.5% (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 83.2% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 1.73 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 14.5% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 2.05 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 859,574 (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 229,324 (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 2.07 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 4.15 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 2.09 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) was 0.8917 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.8917 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7495 GPIA in 1998.
- How does ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) ranks 220th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 5.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ECA: Central Africa (unsdcode:98101) 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