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

Latest (2020)
0.9113 GPIA
Change on year
down 0.2%
Rank
217th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9128 GPIA
in 2019
All-time low
0.7167 GPIA
in 1999
Years of data
23
1998–2020

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1998–2020

00.20.40.60.811998200920201998: 0.719 GPIA1999: 0.717 GPIA2000: 0.731 GPIA2001: 0.746 GPIA2002: 0.772 GPIA2003: 0.788 GPIA2004: 0.795 GPIA2005: 0.814 GPIA2006: 0.824 GPIA2007: 0.825 GPIA2008: 0.846 GPIA2009: 0.851 GPIA2010: 0.858 GPIA2011: 0.858 GPIA2012: 0.86 GPIA2013: 0.859 GPIA2014: 0.875 GPIA2015: 0.88 GPIA2016: 0.893 GPIA2017: 0.904 GPIA2018: 0.902 GPIA2019: 0.913 GPIA2020: 0.911 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 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

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1998 to 2020.
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

DecadeAverage LowestHighest 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

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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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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