School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total
IDA & IBRD total: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.11 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total, 1970–2019
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
IDA & IBRD total recorded 1.11 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 50 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.0% on the previous year and up 10.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total peaked at 1.11 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.7667 GPI, in 1986.
That places IDA & IBRD total 22nd out of 43 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 50 years of available data.
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total, year by year
| Year | GPI | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.828 GPI | — |
| 1971 | 0.8259 GPI | -0.3% |
| 1972 | 0.8253 GPI | -0.1% |
| 1973 | 0.8227 GPI | -0.3% |
| 1974 | 0.8197 GPI | -0.4% |
| 1975 | 0.817 GPI | -0.3% |
| 1976 | 0.8122 GPI | -0.6% |
| 1977 | 0.8195 GPI | +0.9% |
| 1978 | 0.815 GPI | -0.5% |
| 1979 | 0.8064 GPI | -1.1% |
| 1980 | 0.8019 GPI | -0.6% |
| 1981 | 0.7858 GPI | -2.0% |
| 1982 | 0.795 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1983 | 0.7846 GPI | -1.3% |
| 1984 | 0.7772 GPI | -1.0% |
| 1985 | 0.7756 GPI | -0.2% |
| 1986 | 0.7667 GPI | -1.2% |
| 1987 | 0.7708 GPI | +0.5% |
| 1988 | 0.7943 GPI | +3.1% |
| 1989 | 0.8037 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1990 | 0.812 GPI | +1.0% |
| 1991 | 0.823 GPI | +1.4% |
| 1992 | 0.8339 GPI | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 0.8437 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1994 | 0.8467 GPI | +0.4% |
| 1995 | 0.8543 GPI | +0.9% |
| 1996 | 0.8594 GPI | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 0.8735 GPI | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 0.8883 GPI | +1.7% |
| 1999 | 0.9097 GPI | +2.4% |
| 2000 | 0.9204 GPI | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 0.9269 GPI | +0.7% |
| 2002 | 0.9494 GPI | +2.4% |
| 2003 | 0.9494 GPI | -0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.9577 GPI | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 0.973 GPI | +1.6% |
| 2006 | 0.9926 GPI | +2.0% |
| 2007 | 0.9961 GPI | +0.4% |
| 2008 | 1 GPI | +0.6% |
| 2009 | 1 GPI | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 1 GPI | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 1 GPI | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1.03 GPI | +3.1% |
| 2013 | 1.05 GPI | +2.0% |
| 2014 | 1.07 GPI | +1.4% |
| 2015 | 1.07 GPI | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1.08 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2017 | 1.09 GPI | +0.7% |
| 2018 | 1.1 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 1.11 GPI | +1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.8192 GPI | 0.8064 GPI | 0.828 GPI | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7856 GPI | 0.7667 GPI | 0.8037 GPI | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.8544 GPI | 0.812 GPI | 0.9097 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.9671 GPI | 0.9204 GPI | 1 GPI | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.06 GPI | 1 GPI | 1.11 GPI | 10 |
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More education data for IDA & IBRD total
- Population ages 15-64 65.3% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 26.0% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 28.51 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 102.4% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0041 units per person (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 28.51 million (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 101.7% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 103.1% (2024)
- Labor force, total, per capita 0.4436 units per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in IDA & IBRD total was 1.11 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in IDA & IBRD total?
- The highest recorded value was 1.11 GPI in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in IDA & IBRD total?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7667 GPI in 1986.
- How does IDA & IBRD total rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- IDA & IBRD total ranks 22nd out of 43 groups with data for 2019.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in IDA & IBRD total?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this IDA & IBRD total 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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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.