School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Botswana
Botswana: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.43 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Botswana, 1972–2019
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Botswana recorded 1.43 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 34 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.3% on the previous year and up 79.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Botswana peaked at 1.43 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.372 GPI, in 1973.
Botswana ranks 45th of 177 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 34 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.454 GPI | 0.372 GPI | 0.5208 GPI | 8 |
| 1980s | 0.5228 GPI | 0.4022 GPI | 0.7718 GPI | 7 |
| 1990s | 0.7699 GPI | 0.6382 GPI | 0.8742 GPI | 7 |
| 2000s | 0.8817 GPI | 0.7984 GPI | 0.9582 GPI | 7 |
| 2010s | 1.34 GPI | 1.22 GPI | 1.43 GPI | 5 |
Countries ranked near Botswana
- 42 Latvia 1.46 GPI compare
- 44 Slovenia 1.45 GPI compare
- 46 New Zealand 1.42 GPI compare
- 47 United Arab Emirates 1.42 GPI compare
- 48 Thailand 1.41 GPI compare
More education data for Botswana
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 32.0% (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 64.0% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 13 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 109.3% (2022)
- Primary education, teachers 16,622 (2022)
- Fertility rate vs mean years of schooling 2.7 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 108.2% (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Botswana?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Botswana was 1.43 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Botswana?
- The highest recorded value was 1.43 GPI in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Botswana?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.372 GPI in 1973.
- How does Botswana rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Botswana ranks 45th out of 177 countries with data for 2019.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Botswana?
- Over the last ten years it is up 79.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Botswana data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 34 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).
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.