School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)

ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9914 GPIA in 2021. ▲ Rising

Latest (2021)
0.9914 GPIA
Change on year
down 0.2%
Rank
89th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9931 GPIA
in 2020
All-time low
0.9052 GPIA
in 2004
Years of data
24
1998–2021

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434), 1998–2021

00.20.40.60.811998200920211998: 0.909 GPIA1999: 0.919 GPIA2000: 0.939 GPIA2001: 0.955 GPIA2002: 0.939 GPIA2003: 0.941 GPIA2004: 0.905 GPIA2005: 0.943 GPIA2006: 0.948 GPIA2007: 0.965 GPIA2008: 0.964 GPIA2009: 0.964 GPIA2010: 0.978 GPIA2011: 0.989 GPIA2012: 0.986 GPIA2013: 0.974 GPIA2014: 0.978 GPIA2015: 0.984 GPIA2016: 0.984 GPIA2017: 0.983 GPIA2018: 0.983 GPIA2019: 0.988 GPIA2020: 0.993 GPIA2021: 0.991 GPIA

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.

Analysis

In 2021, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) stood at 0.9914 GPIA.

That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) peaked at 0.9931 GPIA in 2020 and was at its lowest, 0.9052 GPIA, in 2004.

That places ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) 89th out of 221 groups with data for 2021, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434), year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434), 1998 to 2021.
Year GPIA Change
1998 0.9085 GPIA
1999 0.9194 GPIA +1.2%
2000 0.9387 GPIA +2.1%
2001 0.9555 GPIA +1.8%
2002 0.9391 GPIA -1.7%
2003 0.9413 GPIA +0.2%
2004 0.9052 GPIA -3.8%
2005 0.9429 GPIA +4.2%
2006 0.948 GPIA +0.5%
2007 0.9648 GPIA +1.8%
2008 0.9635 GPIA -0.1%
2009 0.9644 GPIA +0.1%
2010 0.9776 GPIA +1.4%
2011 0.9889 GPIA +1.2%
2012 0.986 GPIA -0.3%
2013 0.9742 GPIA -1.2%
2014 0.9783 GPIA +0.4%
2015 0.9839 GPIA +0.6%
2016 0.9844 GPIA +0.0%
2017 0.9831 GPIA -0.1%
2018 0.9834 GPIA +0.0%
2019 0.988 GPIA +0.5%
2020 0.9931 GPIA +0.5%
2021 0.9914 GPIA -0.2%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.914 GPIA 0.9085 GPIA 0.9194 GPIA 2
2000s 0.9463 GPIA 0.9052 GPIA 0.9648 GPIA 10
2010s 0.9828 GPIA 0.9742 GPIA 0.9889 GPIA 10
2020s 0.9923 GPIA 0.9914 GPIA 0.9931 GPIA 2

Countries ranked near ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)

  1. 86 Andorra 0.9995 GPIA compare
  2. 87 Iceland 0.9991 GPIA compare
  3. 88 Czechia 0.9989 GPIA compare
  4. 89 Japan 0.9989 GPIA compare
  5. 90 Latvia 0.9989 GPIA compare
  6. 91 Finland 0.9988 GPIA compare
  7. 92 Seychelles 0.9987 GPIA compare

See the full ranking of 421 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)?
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) was 0.9914 GPIA in 2021, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)?
The highest recorded value was 0.9931 GPIA in 2020.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)?
The lowest recorded value was 0.9052 GPIA in 2004.
How does ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) ranks 89th out of 221 groups with data for 2021.
Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434)?
Over the last ten years it is up 0.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this ESCAP: Countries With Special Needs (csn) (unsdcode:98434) 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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Indicator
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
421 places, 10,261 data points, 1985–2025
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release