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
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1971–2016
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
| 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
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | 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 |
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 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)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) -2.82 % change on previous year (2016)
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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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February 2026 Data Release