School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)
ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439): School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity was 0.8726 GPIA in 2016. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), 1970–2016
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2016, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) stood at 0.8726 GPIA. That is the highest value across all 47 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 9.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) peaked at 0.8726 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.6387 GPIA, in 1971.
That places ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2016, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 47 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.6408 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.6387 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 0.6473 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 1973 | 0.6551 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 1974 | 0.6578 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1975 | 0.6549 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 1976 | 0.6551 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 0.6598 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1978 | 0.6639 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1979 | 0.656 GPIA | -1.2% |
| 1980 | 0.6621 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1981 | 0.6666 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1982 | 0.6904 GPIA | +3.6% |
| 1983 | 0.6919 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1984 | 0.6976 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 0.6931 GPIA | -0.6% |
| 1986 | 0.6995 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1987 | 0.7137 GPIA | +2.0% |
| 1988 | 0.7055 GPIA | -1.1% |
| 1989 | 0.7105 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1990 | 0.715 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 0.7217 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 1992 | 0.7235 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1993 | 0.724 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 0.718 GPIA | -0.8% |
| 1995 | 0.7162 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 1996 | 0.7112 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 0.7164 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1998 | 0.7157 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 0.7315 GPIA | +2.2% |
| 2000 | 0.7485 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2001 | 0.7566 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 0.7549 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 2003 | 0.763 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2004 | 0.7585 GPIA | -0.6% |
| 2005 | 0.784 GPIA | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 0.7961 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 0.8027 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 2008 | 0.8159 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2009 | 0.8267 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 0.8356 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 0.8428 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 0.852 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 0.8603 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 0.8605 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.8706 GPIA | +1.2% |
| 2016 | 0.8726 GPIA | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6529 GPIA | 0.6387 GPIA | 0.6639 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.6931 GPIA | 0.6621 GPIA | 0.7137 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.7193 GPIA | 0.7112 GPIA | 0.7315 GPIA | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.7807 GPIA | 0.7485 GPIA | 0.8267 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8563 GPIA | 0.8356 GPIA | 0.8726 GPIA | 7 |
More education data for ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 19.65 million (2022)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 5.13 % change on previous year (2020)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 6.22 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 1.77 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 13.73 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.53 % change on previous year (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 23.86 million (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 3.26 % change on previous year (2022)
- Enrolment in primary education, male (number), annual growth rate 1.02 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 45.48 million (2024)
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Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) was 0.8726 GPIA in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.8726 GPIA in 2016.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6387 GPIA in 1971.
- How does ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) rank for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity?
- ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) ranks 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2016.
- Is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this ESCAP: Wb Low Income Economies (wb_low) (unsdcode:98439) 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