School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 0.4832 GPI in 2014. β–² Rising

Latest (2014)
0.4832 GPI
Change on year
up 3.8%
World rank
168th
of 177 countries
All-time high
0.4832 GPI
in 2014
All-time low
0.0818 GPI
in 1972
Years of data
32
1971–2014

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Ethiopia, 1971–2014

0.10.20.30.40.51971199220141971: 0.086 GPI1972: 0.082 GPI1974: 0.098 GPI1979: 0.141 GPI1980: 0.192 GPI1982: 0.148 GPI1983: 0.138 GPI1984: 0.12 GPI1986: 0.215 GPI1987: 0.197 GPI1988: 0.205 GPI1989: 0.218 GPI1990: 0.219 GPI1991: 0.216 GPI1994: 0.284 GPI1995: 0.259 GPI1996: 0.243 GPI1997: 0.258 GPI1998: 0.239 GPI1999: 0.23 GPI2000: 0.276 GPI2001: 0.271 GPI2002: 0.356 GPI2003: 0.334 GPI2004: 0.334 GPI2005: 0.319 GPI2008: 0.311 GPI2009: 0.441 GPI2010: 0.43 GPI2011: 0.437 GPI2012: 0.465 GPI2014: 0.483 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Ethiopia recorded 0.4832 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2014. That is the highest value across all 32 years on record.

That represents a change of up 3.8% on the previous year and up 44.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Ethiopia peaked at 0.4832 GPI in 2014 and was at its lowest, 0.0818 GPI, in 1972.

Ethiopia ranks 168th of 177 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 32 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.1017 GPI 0.0818 GPI 0.1414 GPI 4
1980s 0.1792 GPI 0.1203 GPI 0.2179 GPI 8
1990s 0.2435 GPI 0.216 GPI 0.2842 GPI 8
2000s 0.3303 GPI 0.2707 GPI 0.4413 GPI 8
2010s 0.4538 GPI 0.4297 GPI 0.4832 GPI 4

Countries ranked near Ethiopia

  1. 165 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.5588 GPI compare
  2. 166 Togo 0.5304 GPI compare
  3. 167 Burkina Faso 0.5279 GPI compare
  4. 169 Yemen 0.4402 GPI compare
  5. 170 Benin 0.4376 GPI compare
  6. 171 Sierra Leone 0.4151 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Ethiopia?
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Ethiopia was 0.4832 GPI in 2014, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Ethiopia?
The highest recorded value was 0.4832 GPI in 2014.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Ethiopia?
The lowest recorded value was 0.0818 GPI in 1972.
How does Ethiopia rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
Ethiopia ranks 168th out of 177 countries with data for 2014.
Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Ethiopia?
Over the last ten years it is up 44.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Ethiopia 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.