School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo
Togo: School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index was 0.833 GPI in 2017. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo, 1972–2017
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Togo recorded 0.833 GPI for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in 2017. That is the highest value across all 28 years on record.
That represents a change of up 16.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo peaked at 0.833 GPI in 2017 and was at its lowest, 0.4338 GPI, in 1972.
That places Togo 164th out of 175 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 28 years of available data.
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo, year by year
| Year | GPI | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 0.4338 GPI | — |
| 1973 | 0.447 GPI | +3.0% |
| 1974 | 0.4586 GPI | +2.6% |
| 1975 | 0.4643 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1976 | 0.4786 GPI | +3.1% |
| 1977 | 0.4864 GPI | +1.6% |
| 1978 | 0.4963 GPI | +2.0% |
| 1979 | 0.5159 GPI | +4.0% |
| 1980 | 0.526 GPI | +2.0% |
| 1982 | 0.5495 GPI | +4.5% |
| 1983 | 0.5517 GPI | +0.4% |
| 1984 | 0.5468 GPI | -0.9% |
| 1987 | 0.5289 GPI | -3.3% |
| 1988 | 0.533 GPI | +0.8% |
| 1990 | 0.5528 GPI | +3.7% |
| 1991 | 0.554 GPI | +0.2% |
| 1992 | 0.569 GPI | +2.7% |
| 1994 | 0.5695 GPI | +0.1% |
| 1995 | 0.5835 GPI | +2.5% |
| 1996 | 0.594 GPI | +1.8% |
| 2000 | 0.6622 GPI | +11.5% |
| 2001 | 0.6724 GPI | +1.5% |
| 2003 | 0.6998 GPI | +4.1% |
| 2004 | 0.7079 GPI | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 0.7181 GPI | +1.4% |
| 2006 | 0.7242 GPI | +0.9% |
| 2007 | 0.7178 GPI | -0.9% |
| 2017 | 0.833 GPI | +16.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.4726 GPI | 0.4338 GPI | 0.5159 GPI | 8 |
| 1980s | 0.5393 GPI | 0.526 GPI | 0.5517 GPI | 6 |
| 1990s | 0.5705 GPI | 0.5528 GPI | 0.594 GPI | 6 |
| 2000s | 0.7003 GPI | 0.6622 GPI | 0.7242 GPI | 7 |
| 2010s | 0.833 GPI | 0.833 GPI | 0.833 GPI | 1 |
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More education data for Togo
- Start of the academic school year (tertiary education), gaps filled 2,021 tertiary education (2022)
- Start of the academic school year (tertiary education), annual growth 0.0495 % change on previous year (2022)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 36,787 (2024)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 56.1% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 40.4% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo?
- School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index in Togo was 0.833 GPI in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Togo?
- The highest recorded value was 0.833 GPI in 2017.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Togo?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.4338 GPI in 1972.
- How does Togo rank for school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index?
- Togo ranks 164th out of 175 countries with data for 2017.
- Is school life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Togo?
- Over the last ten years it is up 16.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Togo data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Ratio of female school life expectancy to the male school life expectancy. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a value greater than 1 indicates disparity in favor of females.