School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)
ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501): School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity was 0.9783 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
Latest (2024)
0.9783 GPIA
Change on year
up 0.2%
Rank
140th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9783 GPIA
in 2024
All-time low
0.7006 GPIA
in 1971
Years of data
55
1970–2024
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501), 1970–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) recorded 0.9783 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in 2024. That is the highest value across all 55 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) peaked at 0.9783 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.7006 GPIA, in 1971.
That places ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) 140th 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 55 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.7023 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.7006 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 0.7037 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 0.7064 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1974 | 0.7113 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1975 | 0.7108 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1976 | 0.7168 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1977 | 0.7263 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 1978 | 0.7324 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 0.749 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 1980 | 0.7581 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 1981 | 0.7686 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 1982 | 0.7772 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 0.7844 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1984 | 0.7892 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1985 | 0.7947 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1986 | 0.8009 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1987 | 0.8061 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1988 | 0.8074 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1989 | 0.8161 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1990 | 0.8255 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 1991 | 0.8293 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 1992 | 0.841 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 1993 | 0.8453 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 1994 | 0.8451 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.8576 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 1996 | 0.842 GPIA | -1.8% |
| 1997 | 0.8617 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 1998 | 0.8708 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1999 | 0.8793 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2000 | 0.8872 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2001 | 0.8959 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 0.9049 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 0.9113 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 0.9138 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2005 | 0.9189 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 0.923 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2007 | 0.926 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 0.9348 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2009 | 0.9361 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 0.9379 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 0.9374 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 0.9401 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 0.9434 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 0.9484 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 0.9509 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2016 | 0.9548 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 0.9574 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 0.961 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 2019 | 0.9659 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2020 | 0.9672 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2021 | 0.9678 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 0.973 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 2023 | 0.9761 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2024 | 0.9783 GPIA | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.716 GPIA | 0.7006 GPIA | 0.749 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7903 GPIA | 0.7581 GPIA | 0.8161 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.8498 GPIA | 0.8255 GPIA | 0.8793 GPIA | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.9152 GPIA | 0.8872 GPIA | 0.9361 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9497 GPIA | 0.9374 GPIA | 0.9659 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9725 GPIA | 0.9672 GPIA | 0.9783 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 90.9% (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 89.2% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 19.75 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 9.1% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 21.05 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 6.33 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 2.58 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male 28.97 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 27.50 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 13.47 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)?
- School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) was 0.9783 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9783 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7006 GPIA in 1971.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) rank for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity?
- ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) ranks 140th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Countries (unsdcode:98501) 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