School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9899 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428), 1999–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2024, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) stood at 0.9899 GPIA.
That represents a change of up 0.7% on the previous year and down 3.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) peaked at 1.05 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.8127 GPIA, in 1999.
That places ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) 92nd out of 221 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 0.8127 GPIA | — |
| 2000 | 0.8182 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2001 | 0.8308 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2002 | 0.8438 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2003 | 0.9129 GPIA | +8.2% |
| 2004 | 0.9067 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 0.922 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2006 | 0.9301 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 0.94 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2008 | 0.9617 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2009 | 0.9783 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2010 | 0.9734 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 0.9793 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 0.9837 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 1.03 GPIA | +4.8% |
| 2014 | 1.03 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2015 | 1.03 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1.05 GPIA | +2.0% |
| 2017 | 1.04 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 0.9832 GPIA | -5.9% |
| 2019 | 0.9859 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 0.9877 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 0.9843 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 2022 | 0.9805 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2023 | 0.9829 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 0.9899 GPIA | +0.7% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.8127 GPIA | 0.8127 GPIA | 0.8127 GPIA | 1 |
| 2000s | 0.9044 GPIA | 0.8182 GPIA | 0.9783 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.01 GPIA | 0.9734 GPIA | 1.05 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.985 GPIA | 0.9805 GPIA | 0.9899 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
More education data for ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 97.0% (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 96.3% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 84.88 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 3.0% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 91.07 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 53.53 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 6.43 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 66.98 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 139.28 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 72.30 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) was 0.9899 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- The highest recorded value was 1.05 GPIA in 2016.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8127 GPIA in 1999.
- How does ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) ranks 92nd out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCAP: Saarc (saarc) (unsdcode:98428) 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