School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)
ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9939 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108), 1998–2024
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: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) is 0.9939 GPIA, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 27 years on record.
The figure is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 6.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) peaked at 0.9939 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.7776 GPIA, in 1999.
ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) ranks 72nd of 221 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 0.7828 GPIA | — |
| 1999 | 0.7776 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 2000 | 0.7794 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 0.7917 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2002 | 0.7841 GPIA | -1.0% |
| 2003 | 0.7985 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2004 | 0.8072 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2005 | 0.8214 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 0.834 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 0.8577 GPIA | +2.8% |
| 2008 | 0.8692 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2009 | 0.878 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 0.8917 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2011 | 0.8978 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2012 | 0.9272 GPIA | +3.3% |
| 2013 | 0.9401 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 0.9354 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2015 | 0.9374 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 0.9283 GPIA | -1.0% |
| 2017 | 0.9431 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2018 | 0.9572 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2019 | 0.9677 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 0.9778 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 0.9829 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 0.9862 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 0.9896 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 0.9939 GPIA | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.7802 GPIA | 0.7776 GPIA | 0.7828 GPIA | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.8221 GPIA | 0.7794 GPIA | 0.878 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9326 GPIA | 0.8917 GPIA | 0.9677 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9861 GPIA | 0.9778 GPIA | 0.9939 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)
More education data for ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes 31.31 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 96.0% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 15.44 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 3.6% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 15.86 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 6.60 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 1.82 million (2023)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 14.51 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 29.54 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 15.03 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) was 0.9939 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: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9939 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7776 GPIA in 1999.
- How does ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) ranks 72nd out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ECA: Ecowas (unsdcode:98108) 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