School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Low & middle income
Low & middle income: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.1 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Low & middle income, 1970–2019
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Low & middle income recorded 1.1 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 11.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Low & middle income peaked at 1.1 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.755 GPI, in 1986.
Low & middle income ranks 23rd of 43 groups on this measure, 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 Low & middle income, year by year
| Year | GPI | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.8218 GPI | — |
| 1971 | 0.8202 GPI | -0.2% |
| 1972 | 0.8187 GPI | -0.2% |
| 1973 | 0.812 GPI | -0.8% |
| 1974 | 0.8045 GPI | -0.9% |
| 1975 | 0.7988 GPI | -0.7% |
| 1976 | 0.7924 GPI | -0.8% |
| 1977 | 0.7994 GPI | +0.9% |
| 1978 | 0.7969 GPI | -0.3% |
| 1979 | 0.7908 GPI | -0.8% |
| 1980 | 0.7877 GPI | -0.4% |
| 1981 | 0.7735 GPI | -1.8% |
| 1982 | 0.7837 GPI | +1.3% |
| 1983 | 0.7738 GPI | -1.3% |
| 1984 | 0.7661 GPI | -1.0% |
| 1985 | 0.7643 GPI | -0.2% |
| 1986 | 0.755 GPI | -1.2% |
| 1987 | 0.7592 GPI | +0.6% |
| 1988 | 0.7823 GPI | +3.0% |
| 1989 | 0.7913 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1990 | 0.7981 GPI | +0.9% |
| 1991 | 0.8098 GPI | +1.5% |
| 1992 | 0.8206 GPI | +1.3% |
| 1993 | 0.8297 GPI | +1.1% |
| 1994 | 0.8313 GPI | +0.2% |
| 1995 | 0.8377 GPI | +0.8% |
| 1996 | 0.8411 GPI | +0.4% |
| 1997 | 0.8545 GPI | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 0.8713 GPI | +2.0% |
| 1999 | 0.8917 GPI | +2.3% |
| 2000 | 0.9024 GPI | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 0.9078 GPI | +0.6% |
| 2002 | 0.9317 GPI | +2.6% |
| 2003 | 0.9333 GPI | +0.2% |
| 2004 | 0.9447 GPI | +1.2% |
| 2005 | 0.9615 GPI | +1.8% |
| 2006 | 0.9826 GPI | +2.2% |
| 2007 | 0.9878 GPI | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 0.9929 GPI | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 0.9938 GPI | +0.1% |
| 2010 | 0.9917 GPI | -0.2% |
| 2011 | 0.9922 GPI | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 1.02 GPI | +3.2% |
| 2013 | 1.05 GPI | +2.1% |
| 2014 | 1.06 GPI | +1.5% |
| 2015 | 1.06 GPI | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1.07 GPI | +1.1% |
| 2017 | 1.08 GPI | +0.8% |
| 2018 | 1.09 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 1.1 GPI | +1.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.8056 GPI | 0.7908 GPI | 0.8218 GPI | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.7737 GPI | 0.755 GPI | 0.7913 GPI | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.8386 GPI | 0.7981 GPI | 0.8917 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.9539 GPI | 0.9024 GPI | 0.9938 GPI | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.05 GPI | 0.9917 GPI | 1.1 GPI | 10 |
Countries ranked near Low & middle income
More education data for Low & middle income
- Population ages 15-64 65.3% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 26.3% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 27.98 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 102.3% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0042 units per person (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 27.98 million (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 101.6% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 103.0% (2024)
- Labor force, total, per capita 0.4422 units per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Low & middle income?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Low & middle income was 1.1 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Low & middle income?
- The highest recorded value was 1.1 GPI in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Low & middle income?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.755 GPI in 1986.
- How does Low & middle income rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Low & middle income ranks 23rd out of 43 groups with data for 2019.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Low & middle income?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Low & middle income 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.