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School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI) by country

Ratio of female school life expectancy to the male school life expectancy. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a...

Countries reporting
193
Highest
1.14 GPI
Suriname
Lowest
0.5335 GPI
Somalia
Median
0.9999 GPI
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
7,783

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 193 countries. The highest value is 1.14 GPI in Suriname; the lowest is 0.5335 GPI in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9999 GPI, and the mean is 0.9816 GPI.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 116 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Gambia (up 35.4%), and the largest decrease in Angola (down 23.0%).

School life expectancy, primary … secondary GPI gender parity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Suriname 1.14 GPI 2015 up 1.6% rising
2 Senegal 1.14 GPI 2019 up 19.7% rising
3 Bangladesh 1.11 GPI 2018 up 2.6% rising
4 French Polynesia 1.09 GPI 1993 — flat
5 Kiribati 1.07 GPI 2008 up 2.8% rising
6 Tunisia 1.07 GPI 2016 up 2.2% rising
7 Palestine 1.07 GPI 2019 up 1.8% rising
8 Mauritania 1.06 GPI 2019 up 5.5% rising
9 Belgium 1.06 GPI 2018 down 1.5% rising
10 Bhutan 1.06 GPI 2018 up 6.1% rising
11 Seychelles 1.06 GPI 2019 down 0.1% falling
12 Samoa 1.06 GPI 2016 down 1.3% flat
13 Libya 1.06 GPI 2006 — rising
14 Uruguay 1.05 GPI 2018 up 1.4% flat
15 Finland 1.05 GPI 2018 up 3.0% flat
16 Kuwait 1.05 GPI 2015 down 2.3% rising
17 Ireland 1.05 GPI 2018 up 2.9% flat
18 Fiji 1.05 GPI 2012 up 1.0% rising
19 Sao Tome and Principe 1.05 GPI 2017 up 4.3% rising
20 Bermuda 1.05 GPI 2015 down 4.1% rising
21 Honduras 1.04 GPI 2019 down 3.3% rising
22 Mexico 1.04 GPI 2018 up 2.5% rising
23 Lesotho 1.04 GPI 2017 up 0.5% falling
24 Burundi 1.04 GPI 2019 up 13.8% rising
25 Puerto Rico 1.04 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
26 Bahrain 1.04 GPI 2019 up 4.2% rising
27 Armenia 1.04 GPI 2019 up 4.1% flat
28 Nepal 1.03 GPI 2019 up 4.1% rising
29 New Zealand 1.03 GPI 2018 up 0.8% rising
30 Costa Rica 1.03 GPI 2019 up 2.7% flat
31 Nicaragua 1.03 GPI 2010 down 3.3% flat
32 Malaysia 1.03 GPI 2017 down 0.6% rising
33 Croatia 1.03 GPI 2018 up 0.6% flat
34 San Marino 1.03 GPI 2019 up 0.5% rising
35 Tuvalu 1.03 GPI 2019 down 3.4% rising
36 British Virgin Islands 1.03 GPI 2018 down 0.6% falling
37 Tanzania 1.03 GPI 2019 up 5.6% rising
38 Sweden 1.03 GPI 2018 up 3.3% flat
39 Bahamas 1.03 GPI 2018 up 4.1% falling
40 Philippines 1.03 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
41 Comoros 1.03 GPI 2018 up 21.4% rising
42 Sri Lanka 1.03 GPI 2018 up 2.9% flat
43 East Timor 1.03 GPI 2019 up 9.5% rising
44 Mauritius 1.02 GPI 2019 up 0.0% rising
45 Brunei 1.02 GPI 2019 up 2.8% flat
46 Ecuador 1.02 GPI 2018 up 1.6% rising
47 Albania 1.02 GPI 2019 up 0.5% rising
48 Brazil 1.02 GPI 2011 up 1.2% flat
49 Aruba 1.02 GPI 2012 up 3.4% flat
50 Mongolia 1.02 GPI 2010 down 8.9% flat
51 Paraguay 1.02 GPI 2012 up 3.1% rising
52 Venezuela 1.02 GPI 2017 down 0.7% flat
53 Micronesia (country) 1.02 GPI 2005 — rising
54 Argentina 1.02 GPI 2017 down 2.4% flat
55 India 1.02 GPI 2019 up 2.9% rising
56 Hong Kong 1.02 GPI 2019 up 1.0% rising
57 Madagascar 1.02 GPI 2019 up 5.9% rising
58 Botswana 1.02 GPI 2008 down 0.1% falling
59 Tonga 1.01 GPI 2015 up 3.2% flat
60 Israel 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.1% falling
61 Colombia 1.01 GPI 2018 down 3.0% flat
62 Panama 1.01 GPI 2017 up 0.7% flat
63 Marshall Islands 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.2% flat
64 Montenegro 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.5% flat
65 Slovenia 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.4% flat
66 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.01 GPI 2018 down 2.3% flat
67 Rwanda 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.0% rising
68 Cape Verde 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
69 Kazakhstan 1.01 GPI 2019 up 0.2% flat
70 Trinidad and Tobago 1.01 GPI 2004 down 0.5% flat
71 Myanmar 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.5% rising
72 Namibia 1.01 GPI 2007 down 1.3% falling
73 Azerbaijan 1.01 GPI 2019 — flat
74 Georgia 1.01 GPI 2019 down 1.0% rising
75 Estonia 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.3% flat
76 Nauru 1.01 GPI 2019 down 1.5% flat
77 Spain 1.01 GPI 2018 down 1.3% flat
78 United Kingdom 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.0% flat
79 Serbia 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.5% flat
80 Slovakia 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
81 Ghana 1.01 GPI 2019 up 6.6% rising
82 Burkina Faso 1.01 GPI 2019 up 18.6% rising
83 Dominican Republic 1.01 GPI 2019 up 4.1% falling
84 Iran 1 GPI 2017 up 1.7% rising
85 Malta 1 GPI 2018 up 2.2% rising
86 Grenada 1 GPI 2018 up 7.4% flat
87 Saint Lucia 1 GPI 2019 down 0.6% falling
88 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1 GPI 2018 down 0.4% falling
89 Netherlands 1 GPI 2018 up 2.3% flat
90 Canada 1 GPI 2018 up 1.6% flat
91 Denmark 1 GPI 2018 down 1.3% flat
92 Sierra Leone 1 GPI 2017 up 12.0% rising
93 Jordan 1 GPI 2019 down 1.5% rising
94 Czechia 1 GPI 2018 down 0.5% flat
95 South Africa 1 GPI 2018 up 0.2% falling
96 Djibouti 1 GPI 2020 up 10.9% rising
97 France 0.9999 GPI 2018 up 0.3% falling
98 Luxembourg 0.9994 GPI 2018 down 1.8% flat
99 Gambia 0.9991 GPI 2010 up 35.4% rising
100 Egypt 0.9989 GPI 2019 up 2.3% rising
101 Romania 0.9982 GPI 2018 up 0.5% flat
102 Barbados 0.9976 GPI 2019 down 1.1% flat
103 Ukraine 0.9975 GPI 2014 up 0.5% flat
104 Jamaica 0.9975 GPI 2019 down 2.2% falling
105 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.9965 GPI 2016 down 3.4% rising
106 Iceland 0.9965 GPI 2018 down 2.2% rising
107 Latvia 0.9964 GPI 2018 down 0.3% flat
108 South Korea 0.9962 GPI 2018 down 0.3% rising
109 Hungary 0.9958 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
110 Dominica 0.9952 GPI 2019 down 3.7% falling
111 United States 0.9949 GPI 2018 down 0.5% flat
112 Macao 0.9943 GPI 2019 up 1.3% falling
113 Kyrgyzstan 0.9931 GPI 2019 down 3.5% flat
114 Guyana 0.993 GPI 2012 up 1.1% flat
115 Congo 0.993 GPI 2012 up 13.2% rising
116 Algeria 0.9927 GPI 2011 up 1.9% rising
117 Uzbekistan 0.9923 GPI 2019 down 0.7% flat
118 Indonesia 0.9917 GPI 2018 up 0.6% rising
119 Gibraltar 0.9915 GPI 2019 down 1.2% falling
120 Palau 0.991 GPI 2014 down 0.3% flat
121 Belize 0.9893 GPI 2019 down 1.1% flat
122 Belarus 0.989 GPI 2018 up 0.3% flat
123 China 0.989 GPI 2010 up 2.3% rising
124 Cayman Islands 0.9875 GPI 2018 down 2.1% falling
125 Cuba 0.9874 GPI 2019 down 0.5% flat
126 North Macedonia 0.9873 GPI 2018 up 2.3% flat
127 Chile 0.9862 GPI 2018 up 0.2% flat
128 Bolivia 0.9846 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
129 Vanuatu 0.9839 GPI 2015 up 4.1% rising
130 Cyprus 0.9837 GPI 2018 down 1.7% flat
131 Thailand 0.9835 GPI 2019 down 4.4% rising
132 Moldova 0.9818 GPI 2019 down 2.6% falling
133 Syria 0.9817 GPI 2013 up 3.7% rising
134 Lithuania 0.9816 GPI 2018 down 1.7% flat
135 Maldives 0.9814 GPI 2019 down 4.3% flat
136 Antigua and Barbuda 0.9812 GPI 2018 up 1.8% flat
137 Poland 0.9811 GPI 2018 down 1.4% flat
138 Italy 0.9797 GPI 2018 down 1.0% rising
139 Norway 0.9795 GPI 2018 down 1.0% flat
140 Portugal 0.9793 GPI 2018 down 1.8% flat
141 Malawi 0.9786 GPI 2019 up 0.8% rising
142 Turkey 0.9783 GPI 2018 up 5.7% rising
143 Austria 0.9772 GPI 2018 up 1.0% rising
144 Russia 0.9771 GPI 2018 down 1.3% flat
145 Bulgaria 0.9757 GPI 2018 down 0.6% flat
146 Greece 0.9755 GPI 2018 up 1.6% rising
147 El Salvador 0.9741 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
148 Switzerland 0.9734 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
149 Guatemala 0.9728 GPI 2019 up 1.0% rising
150 Solomon Islands 0.9687 GPI 2012 up 8.3% rising
151 Germany 0.9686 GPI 2018 down 1.2% flat
152 Australia 0.9679 GPI 2018 — falling
153 Zimbabwe 0.9677 GPI 2013 up 1.9% rising
154 Gabon 0.9674 GPI 1999 down 0.4% rising
155 Qatar 0.9631 GPI 2010 down 6.8% falling
156 Saudi Arabia 0.961 GPI 2019 up 3.3% rising
157 Oman 0.9609 GPI 2019 up 0.8% rising
158 Sudan 0.9578 GPI 2017 up 11.0% rising
159 United Arab Emirates 0.9561 GPI 2017 — rising
160 Uganda 0.9524 GPI 2007 up 12.1% rising
161 Peru 0.9504 GPI 2019 down 6.1% rising
162 Laos 0.9492 GPI 2019 up 9.1% rising
163 Morocco 0.9479 GPI 2019 up 4.7% rising
164 Eswatini 0.9461 GPI 2016 up 4.9% flat
165 Kenya 0.9413 GPI 2009 down 1.6% rising
166 Tajikistan 0.9327 GPI 2013 up 5.9% rising
167 Nigeria 0.9272 GPI 2016 up 9.9% rising
168 Ethiopia 0.92 GPI 2015 up 20.9% rising
169 Cambodia 0.9118 GPI 2008 up 16.7% rising
170 Mozambique 0.9103 GPI 2017 up 9.8% rising
171 Liechtenstein 0.9017 GPI 2018 down 2.1% flat
172 Equatorial Guinea 0.9001 GPI 2005 up 5.7% rising
173 Cote d'Ivoire 0.8785 GPI 2019 up 10.1% rising
174 Cameroon 0.878 GPI 2016 up 6.0% rising
175 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.872 GPI 2015 up 19.9% rising
176 Eritrea 0.8698 GPI 2018 up 10.0% rising
177 Mali 0.8683 GPI 2018 up 12.7% rising
178 Benin 0.8661 GPI 2016 up 28.0% rising
179 Zambia 0.8654 GPI 1988 up 4.3% rising
180 Pakistan 0.8635 GPI 2019 up 3.6% rising
181 Togo 0.8595 GPI 2017 up 16.1% rising
182 Liberia 0.8482 GPI 2015 up 15.7% rising
183 Papua New Guinea 0.847 GPI 2016 — rising
184 Niger 0.8279 GPI 2017 up 16.9% rising
185 Yemen 0.8153 GPI 2016 up 26.7% rising
186 Iraq 0.803 GPI 2007 up 2.9% rising
187 Guinea 0.7713 GPI 2014 up 17.3% rising
188 Central African Republic 0.7597 GPI 2016 up 10.0% rising
189 Chad 0.7158 GPI 2019 up 14.8% rising
190 Guinea-Bissau 0.6353 GPI 2000 up 17.0% rising
191 Afghanistan 0.6315 GPI 2018 up 10.3% rising
192 Angola 0.6284 GPI 2011 down 23.0% rising
193 Somalia 0.5335 GPI 2007 — rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
238 places, 7,783 data points, 1970–2020
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Ratio of female school life expectancy to the male school life expectancy. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a value greater than 1 indicates disparity in favor of females.