School life expectancy, primary, male (years) (male years) in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary, male (years) (male years) was 4.06 years in 2020. ▼ Falling
School life expectancy, primary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1970–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.
Analysis
In 2020, school life expectancy, primary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) stood at 4.06 years.
That represents a change of up 0.3% on the previous year and down 3.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 4.5 years in 1977 and was at its lowest, 3.94 years, in 2014.
That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 206th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 48 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary, male (years) (male years) in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | years | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 4.12 years | — |
| 1971 | 4.13 years | +0.1% |
| 1972 | 4.17 years | +1.0% |
| 1973 | 4.28 years | +2.6% |
| 1974 | 4.3 years | +0.5% |
| 1975 | 4.4 years | +2.2% |
| 1976 | 4.48 years | +2.0% |
| 1977 | 4.5 years | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 4.47 years | -0.7% |
| 1979 | 4.47 years | -0.1% |
| 1980 | 4.4 years | -1.5% |
| 1981 | 4.31 years | -2.2% |
| 1982 | 4.32 years | +0.4% |
| 1983 | 4.31 years | -0.4% |
| 1984 | 4.31 years | +0.1% |
| 1985 | 4.3 years | -0.4% |
| 1986 | 4.29 years | -0.2% |
| 1987 | 4.31 years | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 4.31 years | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 4.36 years | +1.2% |
| 1990 | 4.37 years | +0.3% |
| 1991 | 4.41 years | +0.8% |
| 1992 | 4.46 years | +1.1% |
| 1993 | 4.45 years | -0.0% |
| 1994 | 4.43 years | -0.4% |
| 1998 | 4.35 years | -1.9% |
| 1999 | 4.32 years | -0.7% |
| 2000 | 4.31 years | -0.2% |
| 2001 | 4.3 years | -0.1% |
| 2002 | 4.32 years | +0.5% |
| 2003 | 4.04 years | -6.5% |
| 2004 | 4.13 years | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 4.16 years | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 4.25 years | +2.0% |
| 2007 | 4.23 years | -0.4% |
| 2008 | 4.3 years | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 4.25 years | -1.1% |
| 2010 | 4.22 years | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 4.27 years | +1.4% |
| 2012 | 4.31 years | +0.9% |
| 2013 | 3.97 years | -7.9% |
| 2014 | 3.94 years | -0.9% |
| 2015 | 3.96 years | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 4 years | +0.9% |
| 2017 | 4 years | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 4.04 years | +0.9% |
| 2019 | 4.05 years | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 4.06 years | +0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 4.33 years | 4.12 years | 4.5 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 4.32 years | 4.29 years | 4.4 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 4.4 years | 4.32 years | 4.46 years | 7 |
| 2000s | 4.23 years | 4.04 years | 4.32 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 4.08 years | 3.94 years | 4.31 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.06 years | 4.06 years | 4.06 years | 1 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
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 secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 265,472 (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)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- School life expectancy, primary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 4.06 years in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 4.5 years in 1977.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 3.94 years in 2014.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary, male?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 206th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is school life expectancy, primary, male rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 3.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- 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, male (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release