School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)
ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505): School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity was 0.9037 GPIA in 2020. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505), 1998–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2020, school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) stood at 0.9037 GPIA.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.2% on the previous year and up 10.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) peaked at 0.9059 GPIA in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.6479 GPIA, in 1998.
That places ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 23 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 0.6479 GPIA | — |
| 1999 | 0.649 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2000 | 0.6648 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 0.6814 GPIA | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 0.7116 GPIA | +4.4% |
| 2003 | 0.7195 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 0.737 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2005 | 0.7593 GPIA | +3.0% |
| 2006 | 0.7724 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2007 | 0.7724 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.7951 GPIA | +2.9% |
| 2009 | 0.8059 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 0.8149 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 0.8167 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 2012 | 0.8223 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 0.8412 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2014 | 0.8504 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 0.8658 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2016 | 0.8778 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 0.89 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 2018 | 0.8909 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 0.9059 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2020 | 0.9037 GPIA | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6485 GPIA | 0.6479 GPIA | 0.649 GPIA | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.7419 GPIA | 0.6648 GPIA | 0.8059 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8576 GPIA | 0.8149 GPIA | 0.9059 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9037 GPIA | 0.9037 GPIA | 0.9037 GPIA | 1 |
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 99.0% (2020)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 98.5% (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 2.55 million (2020)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 1.0% (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 2.88 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 1.29 million (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 391,501 (2020)
- School age population, upper secondary education, female 3.91 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 7.93 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 4.02 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) was 0.9037 GPIA in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9059 GPIA in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6479 GPIA in 1998.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) rank for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity?
- ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) ranks 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Ldcs Subregion (unsdcode:98505) 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