School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025)
WB: Low Income (july 2025): School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity was 0.8724 GPIA in 2016. ▲ Rising
Latest (2016)
0.8724 GPIA
Change on year
up 0.2%
Rank
213th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.8724 GPIA
in 2016
All-time low
0.6373 GPIA
in 1971
Years of data
47
1970–2016
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025), 1970–2016
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
The most recent figure for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025) is 0.8724 GPIA, measured in 2016. That is the highest value across all 47 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 9.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025) peaked at 0.8724 GPIA in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.6373 GPIA, in 1971.
That places WB: Low Income (july 2025) 213th 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 WB: Low Income (july 2025), year by year
| Year | GPIA | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.64 GPIA | — |
| 1971 | 0.6373 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 1972 | 0.6455 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 1973 | 0.6542 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 1974 | 0.6567 GPIA | +0.4% |
| 1975 | 0.654 GPIA | -0.4% |
| 1976 | 0.6534 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1977 | 0.6578 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1978 | 0.662 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1979 | 0.6532 GPIA | -1.3% |
| 1980 | 0.6596 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1981 | 0.6638 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1982 | 0.6883 GPIA | +3.7% |
| 1983 | 0.6898 GPIA | +0.2% |
| 1984 | 0.6956 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1985 | 0.6908 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 1986 | 0.6975 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1987 | 0.7124 GPIA | +2.1% |
| 1988 | 0.7036 GPIA | -1.2% |
| 1989 | 0.7091 GPIA | +0.8% |
| 1990 | 0.7137 GPIA | +0.6% |
| 1991 | 0.7206 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 1992 | 0.7226 GPIA | +0.3% |
| 1993 | 0.7236 GPIA | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 0.7174 GPIA | -0.9% |
| 1995 | 0.7157 GPIA | -0.2% |
| 1996 | 0.7104 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 1997 | 0.7157 GPIA | +0.7% |
| 1998 | 0.715 GPIA | -0.1% |
| 1999 | 0.7315 GPIA | +2.3% |
| 2000 | 0.7487 GPIA | +2.4% |
| 2001 | 0.7568 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 0.7548 GPIA | -0.3% |
| 2003 | 0.7619 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 0.7564 GPIA | -0.7% |
| 2005 | 0.7824 GPIA | +3.4% |
| 2006 | 0.7944 GPIA | +1.5% |
| 2007 | 0.8014 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2008 | 0.8149 GPIA | +1.7% |
| 2009 | 0.8258 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2010 | 0.8347 GPIA | +1.1% |
| 2011 | 0.8421 GPIA | +0.9% |
| 2012 | 0.8509 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 0.8595 GPIA | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 0.8596 GPIA | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.8707 GPIA | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 0.8724 GPIA | +0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6514 GPIA | 0.6373 GPIA | 0.662 GPIA | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.6911 GPIA | 0.6596 GPIA | 0.7124 GPIA | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.7186 GPIA | 0.7104 GPIA | 0.7315 GPIA | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.7797 GPIA | 0.7487 GPIA | 0.8258 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.8557 GPIA | 0.8347 GPIA | 0.8724 GPIA | 7 |
More education data for WB: Low Income (july 2025)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 18.68 million (2022)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 12.86 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.47 % change on previous year (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 22.75 million (2022)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 3.16 % change on previous year (2022)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 2.88 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 43.24 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), annual growth 1.31 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 1.35 % change on previous year (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), annual growth rate 0.8586 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025)?
- School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity in WB: Low Income (july 2025) was 0.8724 GPIA in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in WB: Low Income (july 2025)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.8724 GPIA in 2016.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity recorded in WB: Low Income (july 2025)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6373 GPIA in 1971.
- How does WB: Low Income (july 2025) rank for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity?
- WB: Low Income (july 2025) ranks 213th out of 221 groups with data for 2016.
- Is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity rising or falling in WB: Low Income (july 2025)?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this WB: Low Income (july 2025) 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