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
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), 1994–2024
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
| 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
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | 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)
- 144 Barbados 0.9838 GPIA compare
- 145 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9837 GPIA compare
- 146 Netherlands 0.9837 GPIA compare
- 147 Palau 0.9831 GPIA compare
- 148 Zimbabwe 0.983 GPIA compare
- 149 Uzbekistan 0.9827 GPIA compare
- 150 Guatemala 0.9826 GPIA compare
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.67 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.26 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 14.75 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 2.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 13.85 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), annual growth rate 3.4 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 28.59 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), gaps filled 19.74 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), annual growth rate 0.4091 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 3.95 million (2024)
All data for ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) →
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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February 2026 Data Release