School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries
ALECSO: Least Developed Countries: School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity was 0.8582 GPIA in 2016. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries, 1998–2016
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
ALECSO: Least Developed Countries recorded 0.8582 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in 2016. That is the highest value across all 19 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.4% on the previous year and up 12.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries peaked at 0.8582 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.6346 GPIA, in 1998.
ALECSO: Least Developed Countries ranks 218th of 221 groups on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 19 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries, year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 0.6346 GPIA | — |
| 1999 | 0.6348 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.65 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 0.6661 GPIA | +2.5% |
| 2002 | 0.6974 GPIA | +4.7% |
| 2003 | 0.7067 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2004 | 0.7216 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 2005 | 0.7439 GPIA | +3.1% |
| 2006 | 0.7615 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2007 | 0.76 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2008 | 0.7837 GPIA | +3.1% |
| 2009 | 0.7917 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 0.807 GPIA | +1.9% |
| 2011 | 0.8045 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 2012 | 0.8102 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2013 | 0.8288 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2014 | 0.8345 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 2015 | 0.8467 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2016 | 0.8582 GPIA | +1.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.6347 GPIA | 0.6346 GPIA | 0.6348 GPIA | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.7283 GPIA | 0.65 GPIA | 0.7917 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8271 GPIA | 0.8045 GPIA | 0.8582 GPIA | 7 |
More education data for ALECSO: Least Developed Countries
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 2.63 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) 2.48 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number), gaps 577,798 (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 2.84 % change on previous year (2016)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 435,827 (2016)
- Teachers in primary education, male (number), gaps filled 183,698 (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 193,251 (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.17 % change on previous year (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), annual growth rate 1.83 % change on previous year (2020)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 1.1% (2020)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries?
- School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries was 0.8582 GPIA in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries?
- The highest recorded value was 0.8582 GPIA in 2016.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6346 GPIA in 1998.
- How does ALECSO: Least Developed Countries rank for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity?
- ALECSO: Least Developed Countries ranks 218th out of 221 groups with data for 2016.
- Is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ALECSO: Least Developed Countries?
- Over the last ten years it is up 12.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ALECSO: Least Developed Countries data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release