School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)

ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9732 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
0.9732 GPIA
Change on year
up 0.5%
Rank
147th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9732 GPIA
in 2024
All-time low
0.8402 GPIA
in 1996
Years of data
31
1994–2024

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), 1994–2024

00.20.40.60.811994200920241994: 0.854 GPIA1995: 0.867 GPIA1996: 0.84 GPIA1997: 0.876 GPIA1998: 0.887 GPIA1999: 0.898 GPIA2000: 0.905 GPIA2001: 0.914 GPIA2002: 0.912 GPIA2003: 0.926 GPIA2004: 0.927 GPIA2005: 0.925 GPIA2006: 0.926 GPIA2007: 0.934 GPIA2008: 0.942 GPIA2009: 0.941 GPIA2010: 0.938 GPIA2011: 0.933 GPIA2012: 0.938 GPIA2013: 0.941 GPIA2014: 0.945 GPIA2015: 0.945 GPIA2016: 0.946 GPIA2017: 0.948 GPIA2018: 0.951 GPIA2019: 0.955 GPIA2020: 0.958 GPIA2021: 0.96 GPIA2022: 0.965 GPIA2023: 0.969 GPIA2024: 0.973 GPIA

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.

Analysis

ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) recorded 0.9732 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in 2024. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.

The figure is up 0.5% on the previous year and up 3.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) peaked at 0.9732 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.8402 GPIA, in 1996.

That places ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) 147th 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 31 years of available data.

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), 1994 to 2024.
Year GPIA Change
1994 0.8543 GPIA
1995 0.8668 GPIA +1.5%
1996 0.8402 GPIA -3.1%
1997 0.8764 GPIA +4.3%
1998 0.8871 GPIA +1.2%
1999 0.8984 GPIA +1.3%
2000 0.9051 GPIA +0.7%
2001 0.9143 GPIA +1.0%
2002 0.9115 GPIA -0.3%
2003 0.9264 GPIA +1.6%
2004 0.9269 GPIA +0.1%
2005 0.9251 GPIA -0.2%
2006 0.926 GPIA +0.1%
2007 0.9344 GPIA +0.9%
2008 0.9425 GPIA +0.9%
2009 0.9411 GPIA -0.1%
2010 0.938 GPIA -0.3%
2011 0.9329 GPIA -0.5%
2012 0.9377 GPIA +0.5%
2013 0.9413 GPIA +0.4%
2014 0.9446 GPIA +0.4%
2015 0.9454 GPIA +0.1%
2016 0.9461 GPIA +0.1%
2017 0.9476 GPIA +0.2%
2018 0.9508 GPIA +0.3%
2019 0.9552 GPIA +0.5%
2020 0.9575 GPIA +0.2%
2021 0.9596 GPIA +0.2%
2022 0.9653 GPIA +0.6%
2023 0.9688 GPIA +0.4%
2024 0.9732 GPIA +0.5%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.8705 GPIA 0.8402 GPIA 0.8984 GPIA 6
2000s 0.9253 GPIA 0.9051 GPIA 0.9425 GPIA 10
2010s 0.9439 GPIA 0.9329 GPIA 0.9552 GPIA 10
2020s 0.9649 GPIA 0.9575 GPIA 0.9732 GPIA 5

Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)

  1. 144 Barbados 0.9838 GPIA compare
  2. 145 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9837 GPIA compare
  3. 146 Netherlands 0.9837 GPIA compare
  4. 147 Palau 0.9831 GPIA compare
  5. 148 Zimbabwe 0.983 GPIA compare
  6. 149 Uzbekistan 0.9827 GPIA compare
  7. 150 Guatemala 0.9826 GPIA compare

See the full ranking of 421 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) was 0.9732 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
The highest recorded value was 0.9732 GPIA in 2024.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
The lowest recorded value was 0.8402 GPIA in 1996.
How does ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) ranks 147th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
Over the last ten years it is up 3.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) 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