School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)

ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity was 0.896 GPIA in 2016. ▲ Rising

Latest (2016)
0.896 GPIA
Change on year
up 1.1%
Rank
204th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.896 GPIA
in 2016
All-time low
0.6073 GPIA
in 1971
Years of data
25
1971–2016

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1971–2016

00.20.40.60.81971199320161971: 0.607 GPIA1972: 0.617 GPIA1973: 0.619 GPIA1974: 0.626 GPIA1975: 0.629 GPIA1976: 0.636 GPIA1977: 0.643 GPIA1999: 0.709 GPIA2000: 0.722 GPIA2001: 0.735 GPIA2002: 0.76 GPIA2003: 0.769 GPIA2004: 0.779 GPIA2005: 0.799 GPIA2006: 0.814 GPIA2007: 0.814 GPIA2008: 0.833 GPIA2009: 0.84 GPIA2010: 0.85 GPIA2011: 0.853 GPIA2012: 0.857 GPIA2013: 0.861 GPIA2014: 0.871 GPIA2015: 0.886 GPIA2016: 0.896 GPIA

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.

Analysis

ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) recorded 0.896 GPIA for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in 2016. That is the highest value across all 25 years on record.

The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 10.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.896 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.6073 GPIA, in 1971.

That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 204th out of 221 groups with data for 2016, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 25 years of available data.

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1971 to 2016.
Year GPIA Change
1971 0.6073 GPIA
1972 0.6169 GPIA +1.6%
1973 0.6189 GPIA +0.3%
1974 0.6256 GPIA +1.1%
1975 0.6294 GPIA +0.6%
1976 0.6361 GPIA +1.1%
1977 0.6427 GPIA +1.0%
1999 0.7094 GPIA +10.4%
2000 0.722 GPIA +1.8%
2001 0.7351 GPIA +1.8%
2002 0.7602 GPIA +3.4%
2003 0.7694 GPIA +1.2%
2004 0.7793 GPIA +1.3%
2005 0.7987 GPIA +2.5%
2006 0.8137 GPIA +1.9%
2007 0.8142 GPIA +0.1%
2008 0.8327 GPIA +2.3%
2009 0.84 GPIA +0.9%
2010 0.85 GPIA +1.2%
2011 0.8526 GPIA +0.3%
2012 0.8566 GPIA +0.5%
2013 0.8606 GPIA +0.5%
2014 0.8713 GPIA +1.2%
2015 0.8859 GPIA +1.7%
2016 0.896 GPIA +1.1%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.6253 GPIA 0.6073 GPIA 0.6427 GPIA 7
1990s 0.7094 GPIA 0.7094 GPIA 0.7094 GPIA 1
2000s 0.7865 GPIA 0.722 GPIA 0.84 GPIA 10
2010s 0.8676 GPIA 0.85 GPIA 0.896 GPIA 7

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.896 GPIA in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
The highest recorded value was 0.896 GPIA in 2016.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
The lowest recorded value was 0.6073 GPIA in 1971.
How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity?
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 204th out of 221 groups with data for 2016.
Is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
Over the last ten years it is up 10.1%. 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 to tertiary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
400 places, 12,738 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release