School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)

ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9223 GPIA in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)
0.9223 GPIA
Change on year
up 0.3%
Rank
210th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9223 GPIA
in 2023
All-time low
0.7326 GPIA
in 1997
Years of data
27
1997–2023

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), 1997–2023

00.20.40.60.811997201020231997: 0.733 GPIA1998: 0.733 GPIA1999: 0.751 GPIA2000: 0.77 GPIA2001: 0.779 GPIA2002: 0.775 GPIA2003: 0.784 GPIA2004: 0.78 GPIA2005: 0.809 GPIA2006: 0.824 GPIA2007: 0.831 GPIA2008: 0.847 GPIA2009: 0.861 GPIA2010: 0.871 GPIA2011: 0.877 GPIA2012: 0.885 GPIA2013: 0.894 GPIA2014: 0.893 GPIA2015: 0.902 GPIA2016: 0.902 GPIA2017: 0.903 GPIA2018: 0.901 GPIA2019: 0.904 GPIA2020: 0.907 GPIA2021: 0.913 GPIA2022: 0.92 GPIA2023: 0.922 GPIA

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.

Analysis

The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) is 0.9223 GPIA, measured in 2023. That is the highest value across all 27 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) peaked at 0.9223 GPIA in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.7326 GPIA, in 1997.

ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) ranks 210th of 221 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

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 ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), 1997 to 2023.
Year GPIA Change
1997 0.7326 GPIA
1998 0.7327 GPIA +0.0%
1999 0.7506 GPIA +2.4%
2000 0.7695 GPIA +2.5%
2001 0.7787 GPIA +1.2%
2002 0.7746 GPIA -0.5%
2003 0.7845 GPIA +1.3%
2004 0.7799 GPIA -0.6%
2005 0.8087 GPIA +3.7%
2006 0.8238 GPIA +1.9%
2007 0.8312 GPIA +0.9%
2008 0.8465 GPIA +1.9%
2009 0.8608 GPIA +1.7%
2010 0.8708 GPIA +1.2%
2011 0.8767 GPIA +0.7%
2012 0.8847 GPIA +0.9%
2013 0.8937 GPIA +1.0%
2014 0.8928 GPIA -0.1%
2015 0.9016 GPIA +1.0%
2016 0.9021 GPIA +0.0%
2017 0.9033 GPIA +0.1%
2018 0.9007 GPIA -0.3%
2019 0.9039 GPIA +0.4%
2020 0.907 GPIA +0.3%
2021 0.9129 GPIA +0.6%
2022 0.9196 GPIA +0.7%
2023 0.9223 GPIA +0.3%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.7386 GPIA 0.7326 GPIA 0.7506 GPIA 3
2000s 0.8058 GPIA 0.7695 GPIA 0.8608 GPIA 10
2010s 0.893 GPIA 0.8708 GPIA 0.9039 GPIA 10
2020s 0.9155 GPIA 0.907 GPIA 0.9223 GPIA 4

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) was 0.9223 GPIA in 2023, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
The highest recorded value was 0.9223 GPIA in 2023.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
The lowest recorded value was 0.7326 GPIA in 1997.
How does ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) ranks 210th out of 221 groups with data for 2023.
Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
Over the last ten years it is up 3.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) 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