School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)
ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439): School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity was 0.8997 GPIA in 2022. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), 1970–2022
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) recorded 0.8997 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in 2022. That is the highest value across all 53 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.4% on the previous year and up 3.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) peaked at 0.8997 GPIA in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.6441 GPIA, in 1971.
That places ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) 213th out of 221 groups with data for 2022, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 53 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.6458 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.6441 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 0.6538 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 1973 | 0.6624 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 1974 | 0.6653 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1975 | 0.6623 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 1976 | 0.6622 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 1977 | 0.6673 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1978 | 0.6723 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 0.6637 GPIA | -1.3% |
| 1980 | 0.6697 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1981 | 0.6744 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1982 | 0.6986 GPIA | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 0.7007 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 1984 | 0.7066 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 0.7018 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 1986 | 0.7082 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1987 | 0.7231 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 1988 | 0.7146 GPIA | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 0.7202 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1990 | 0.7244 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 0.7315 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1992 | 0.7332 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 0.7336 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 0.7266 GPIA | -1.0% |
| 1995 | 0.7248 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 1996 | 0.7189 GPIA | -0.8% |
| 1997 | 0.7241 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1998 | 0.7238 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 0.7398 GPIA | +2.2% |
| 2000 | 0.7578 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 0.7663 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 0.7634 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 2003 | 0.772 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 0.7675 GPIA | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 0.7945 GPIA | +3.5% |
| 2006 | 0.807 GPIA | +1.6% |
| 2007 | 0.8148 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2008 | 0.8284 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2009 | 0.841 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2010 | 0.8508 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2011 | 0.8576 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2012 | 0.8668 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 0.8761 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2014 | 0.8757 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 0.8861 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 0.8871 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 0.888 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 0.8859 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2019 | 0.8887 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 0.8915 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2021 | 0.8958 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2022 | 0.8997 GPIA | +0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6599 GPIA | 0.6441 GPIA | 0.6723 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7018 GPIA | 0.6697 GPIA | 0.7231 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.7281 GPIA | 0.7189 GPIA | 0.7398 GPIA | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.7913 GPIA | 0.7578 GPIA | 0.841 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8763 GPIA | 0.8508 GPIA | 0.8887 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.8957 GPIA | 0.8915 GPIA | 0.8997 GPIA | 3 |
More education data for ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 19.65 million (2022)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 5.13 % change on previous year (2020)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 6.22 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 1.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 13.73 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.53 % change on previous year (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 23.86 million (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 3.26 % change on previous year (2022)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), annual growth rate 1.02 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 45.48 million (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) was 0.8997 GPIA in 2022, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.8997 GPIA in 2022.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6441 GPIA in 1971.
- How does ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) rank for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity?
- ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) ranks 213th out of 221 groups with data for 2022.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release