School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male was 5.25 years in 2020. ▼ Falling
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1998–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.
Analysis
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) recorded 5.25 years for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in 2020. That is the lowest value across all 23 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.4% on the previous year and down 13.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 6.14 years in 2012 and was at its lowest, 5.25 years, in 2020.
That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 220th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 23 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | years | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5.76 years | — |
| 1999 | 5.71 years | -0.8% |
| 2000 | 5.69 years | -0.3% |
| 2001 | 5.68 years | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 5.64 years | -0.7% |
| 2003 | 5.76 years | +2.1% |
| 2004 | 5.89 years | +2.3% |
| 2005 | 5.95 years | +0.9% |
| 2006 | 6 years | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 5.97 years | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 6.06 years | +1.4% |
| 2009 | 6.07 years | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 6.06 years | -0.3% |
| 2011 | 6.08 years | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 6.14 years | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 5.51 years | -10.3% |
| 2014 | 5.42 years | -1.6% |
| 2015 | 5.39 years | -0.5% |
| 2016 | 5.37 years | -0.5% |
| 2017 | 5.35 years | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 5.3 years | -0.8% |
| 2019 | 5.27 years | -0.6% |
| 2020 | 5.25 years | -0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5.74 years | 5.71 years | 5.76 years | 2 |
| 2000s | 5.87 years | 5.64 years | 6.07 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 5.59 years | 5.27 years | 6.14 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 5.25 years | 5.25 years | 5.25 years | 1 |
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- 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)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) -2.46 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) -3.14 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number), gaps 907,217 (2016)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 5.25 years in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 6.14 years in 2012.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 5.25 years in 2020.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 220th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, male rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- 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, male (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release