School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)
ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9019 GPIA in 2020. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505), 1998–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) recorded 0.9019 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in 2020.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.3% on the previous year and up 9.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) peaked at 0.9047 GPIA in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.6528 GPIA, in 1998.
That places ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) 218th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 23 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 0.6528 GPIA | — |
| 1999 | 0.654 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 0.6711 GPIA | +2.6% |
| 2001 | 0.6888 GPIA | +2.6% |
| 2002 | 0.721 GPIA | +4.7% |
| 2003 | 0.7397 GPIA | +2.6% |
| 2004 | 0.7494 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2005 | 0.7721 GPIA | +3.0% |
| 2006 | 0.7838 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 0.7826 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2008 | 0.8095 GPIA | +3.4% |
| 2009 | 0.816 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2010 | 0.8255 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 0.8246 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 0.8282 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2013 | 0.8427 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2014 | 0.8587 GPIA | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 0.8641 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2016 | 0.8796 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 0.8917 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 0.89 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 0.9047 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2020 | 0.9019 GPIA | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6534 GPIA | 0.6528 GPIA | 0.654 GPIA | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.7534 GPIA | 0.6711 GPIA | 0.816 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.861 GPIA | 0.8246 GPIA | 0.9047 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9019 GPIA | 0.9019 GPIA | 0.9019 GPIA | 1 |
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes 5.43 million (2020)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 98.5% (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 2.55 million (2020)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 1.0% (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 2.88 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 1.29 million (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 391,501 (2020)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 3.91 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 7.93 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 4.02 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) was 0.9019 GPIA in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9047 GPIA in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6528 GPIA in 1998.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) ranks 218th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) 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