School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity was 0.9148 GPIA in 2020. ▲ Rising
Latest (2020)
0.9148 GPIA
Change on year
down 0.2%
Rank
210th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9166 GPIA
in 2019
All-time low
0.6074 GPIA
in 1970
Years of data
48
1970–2020
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1970–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) is 0.9148 GPIA, measured in 2020.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 7.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.9166 GPIA in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.6074 GPIA, in 1970.
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 210th of 221 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 48 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.6074 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.6074 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 0.6187 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 1973 | 0.621 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1974 | 0.6279 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 1975 | 0.6319 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1976 | 0.6381 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1977 | 0.6473 GPIA | +1.4% |
| 1978 | 0.6528 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1979 | 0.6556 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1980 | 0.6673 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 1981 | 0.6714 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1982 | 0.6793 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 1983 | 0.6835 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1984 | 0.6905 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1985 | 0.6959 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1986 | 0.7009 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1987 | 0.7045 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 0.705 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1989 | 0.7054 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1990 | 0.7069 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1991 | 0.7071 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 0.7107 GPIA | +0.5% |
| 1993 | 0.7136 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1994 | 0.7123 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 1998 | 0.7127 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1999 | 0.7126 GPIA | -0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.7257 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2001 | 0.7391 GPIA | +1.8% |
| 2002 | 0.7635 GPIA | +3.3% |
| 2003 | 0.771 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2004 | 0.7843 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2005 | 0.8032 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2006 | 0.8155 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 0.818 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2008 | 0.8361 GPIA | +2.2% |
| 2009 | 0.8451 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2010 | 0.8525 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2011 | 0.8548 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 0.8595 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 2013 | 0.8623 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 2014 | 0.8722 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2015 | 0.8851 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2016 | 0.8954 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 0.9056 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2018 | 0.9052 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 2019 | 0.9166 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 0.9148 GPIA | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6308 GPIA | 0.6074 GPIA | 0.6556 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.6904 GPIA | 0.6673 GPIA | 0.7054 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.7108 GPIA | 0.7069 GPIA | 0.7136 GPIA | 7 |
| 2000s | 0.7902 GPIA | 0.7257 GPIA | 0.8451 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8809 GPIA | 0.8525 GPIA | 0.9166 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9148 GPIA | 0.9148 GPIA | 0.9148 GPIA | 1 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- 207 Afghanistan 0.7163 GPIA compare
- 208 Guinea-Bissau 0.6524 GPIA compare
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, female (number), gaps filled 661,389 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, male (number), gaps filled 685,428 (2020)
- Repeaters in primary education, all grades, both sexes (number), gaps 441,485 (2020)
- 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)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- School life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.9148 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 Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9166 GPIA in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6074 GPIA in 1970.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 210th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary and secondary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- 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 secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release