School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9113 GPIA in 2020. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1998–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) is 0.9113 GPIA, measured in 2020.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 6.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.9128 GPIA in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.7167 GPIA, in 1999.
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 217th of 221 groups on this measure, 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 Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 0.7186 GPIA | — |
| 1999 | 0.7167 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 2000 | 0.7309 GPIA | +2.0% |
| 2001 | 0.7458 GPIA | +2.0% |
| 2002 | 0.7717 GPIA | +3.5% |
| 2003 | 0.7879 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 0.7949 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 0.8135 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2006 | 0.8237 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2007 | 0.8249 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 0.8457 GPIA | +2.5% |
| 2009 | 0.8512 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 0.8579 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2011 | 0.8575 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.8603 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 0.859 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 0.8754 GPIA | +1.9% |
| 2015 | 0.8799 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2016 | 0.8933 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2017 | 0.9037 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2018 | 0.9017 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 0.9128 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2020 | 0.9113 GPIA | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.7177 GPIA | 0.7167 GPIA | 0.7186 GPIA | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.799 GPIA | 0.7309 GPIA | 0.8512 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8802 GPIA | 0.8575 GPIA | 0.9128 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9113 GPIA | 0.9113 GPIA | 0.9113 GPIA | 1 |
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, female (number), gaps filled 661,389 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, male (number), gaps filled 685,428 (2020)
- Repeaters in primary education, all grades, both sexes (number), gaps 441,485 (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 316,507 (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 3.50 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate -0.2475 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.35 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 2.4 % change on previous year (2020)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 1.70 million (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) -2.82 % change on previous year (2016)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.9113 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 Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9128 GPIA in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7167 GPIA in 1999.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 217th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 6.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 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