School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)
ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender was 0.9829 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503), 1994–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) recorded 0.9829 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in 2024. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
That represents a change of up 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) peaked at 0.9829 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.8379 GPIA, in 1996.
ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) ranks 116th of 221 groups on this measure, 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: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 0.8711 GPIA | — |
| 1995 | 0.8835 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 0.8379 GPIA | -5.2% |
| 1997 | 0.8827 GPIA | +5.3% |
| 1998 | 0.8923 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1999 | 0.8986 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2000 | 0.9009 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 0.9086 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2002 | 0.9008 GPIA | -0.9% |
| 2003 | 0.9201 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 0.918 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2005 | 0.9165 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2006 | 0.9208 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 0.93 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 0.9447 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 0.9451 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.9407 GPIA | -0.5% |
| 2011 | 0.9344 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 2012 | 0.9399 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 0.9416 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 0.9481 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 0.9504 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 0.953 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2017 | 0.9562 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 0.9601 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 0.965 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 0.9676 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 0.9695 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 0.9789 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2023 | 0.9827 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 0.9829 GPIA | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.8777 GPIA | 0.8379 GPIA | 0.8986 GPIA | 6 |
| 2000s | 0.9205 GPIA | 0.9008 GPIA | 0.9451 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9489 GPIA | 0.9344 GPIA | 0.965 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9763 GPIA | 0.9676 GPIA | 0.9829 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)
More education data for ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 85.4% (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 82.8% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 8.52 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 14.6% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 9.32 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 2.23 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 1.17 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male 14.02 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 12.15 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 5.94 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) was 0.9829 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: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9829 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender recorded in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8379 GPIA in 1996.
- How does ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender?
- ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) ranks 116th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, adjusted gender rising or falling in ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Mashreq Subregion (unsdcode:98503) 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