School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 0.5279 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.5279 GPI
Change on year
down 4.0%
World rank
167th
of 177 countries
All-time high
0.5497 GPI
in 2018
All-time low
0.1177 GPI
in 1972
Years of data
45
1971–2019

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso, 1971–2019

0.10.20.30.40.51971199520191971: 0.177 GPI1972: 0.118 GPI1973: 0.157 GPI1974: 0.208 GPI1975: 0.256 GPI1976: 0.246 GPI1977: 0.265 GPI1978: 0.269 GPI1979: 0.248 GPI1980: 0.284 GPI1981: 0.271 GPI1982: 0.269 GPI1983: 0.283 GPI1984: 0.282 GPI1985: 0.294 GPI1986: 0.298 GPI1987: 0.313 GPI1988: 0.315 GPI1989: 0.315 GPI1990: 0.297 GPI1991: 0.3 GPI1992: 0.291 GPI1993: 0.296 GPI1994: 0.32 GPI1995: 0.285 GPI1996: 0.32 GPI1997: 0.296 GPI1999: 0.298 GPI2002: 0.345 GPI2003: 0.293 GPI2005: 0.451 GPI2006: 0.439 GPI2007: 0.444 GPI2008: 0.49 GPI2009: 0.473 GPI2010: 0.464 GPI2011: 0.481 GPI2012: 0.485 GPI2013: 0.481 GPI2014: 0.474 GPI2015: 0.508 GPI2016: 0.499 GPI2017: 0.497 GPI2018: 0.55 GPI2019: 0.528 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Burkina Faso recorded 0.5279 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019.

That represents a change of down 4.0% on the previous year and up 11.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso peaked at 0.5497 GPI in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.1177 GPI, in 1972.

That places Burkina Faso 167th out of 177 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso, year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI) in Burkina Faso, 1971 to 2019.
Year GPI Change
1971 0.1768 GPI
1972 0.1177 GPI -33.4%
1973 0.1573 GPI +33.6%
1974 0.2077 GPI +32.0%
1975 0.2556 GPI +23.1%
1976 0.2457 GPI -3.9%
1977 0.2654 GPI +8.0%
1978 0.2688 GPI +1.3%
1979 0.2483 GPI -7.6%
1980 0.2837 GPI +14.2%
1981 0.271 GPI -4.5%
1982 0.269 GPI -0.7%
1983 0.2831 GPI +5.2%
1984 0.282 GPI -0.4%
1985 0.2941 GPI +4.3%
1986 0.2984 GPI +1.5%
1987 0.3128 GPI +4.8%
1988 0.3154 GPI +0.8%
1989 0.3152 GPI -0.0%
1990 0.2972 GPI -5.7%
1991 0.3003 GPI +1.0%
1992 0.2913 GPI -3.0%
1993 0.2965 GPI +1.8%
1994 0.3198 GPI +7.9%
1995 0.2847 GPI -11.0%
1996 0.32 GPI +12.4%
1997 0.2958 GPI -7.6%
1999 0.2979 GPI +0.7%
2002 0.345 GPI +15.8%
2003 0.2929 GPI -15.1%
2005 0.4513 GPI +54.1%
2006 0.4386 GPI -2.8%
2007 0.4439 GPI +1.2%
2008 0.4903 GPI +10.4%
2009 0.4734 GPI -3.4%
2010 0.464 GPI -2.0%
2011 0.4811 GPI +3.7%
2012 0.4847 GPI +0.7%
2013 0.4807 GPI -0.8%
2014 0.4745 GPI -1.3%
2015 0.5084 GPI +7.2%
2016 0.4986 GPI -1.9%
2017 0.4971 GPI -0.3%
2018 0.5497 GPI +10.6%
2019 0.5279 GPI -4.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.2159 GPI 0.1177 GPI 0.2688 GPI 9
1980s 0.2925 GPI 0.269 GPI 0.3154 GPI 10
1990s 0.3004 GPI 0.2847 GPI 0.32 GPI 9
2000s 0.4194 GPI 0.2929 GPI 0.4903 GPI 7
2010s 0.4967 GPI 0.464 GPI 0.5497 GPI 10

Countries ranked near Burkina Faso

  1. 164 Niger 0.5684 GPI compare
  2. 165 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.5588 GPI compare
  3. 166 Togo 0.5304 GPI compare
  4. 168 Ethiopia 0.4832 GPI compare
  5. 169 Yemen 0.4402 GPI compare
  6. 170 Benin 0.4376 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso?
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Burkina Faso was 0.5279 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Burkina Faso?
The highest recorded value was 0.5497 GPI in 2018.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Burkina Faso?
The lowest recorded value was 0.1177 GPI in 1972.
How does Burkina Faso rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
Burkina Faso ranks 167th out of 177 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Burkina Faso?
Over the last ten years it is up 11.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Burkina Faso 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.

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Indicator
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
222 places, 6,910 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

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.