School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Mauritania
Mauritania: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 0.6117 GPI in 2019. β² Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Mauritania, 1978β2019
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Mauritania recorded 0.6117 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 30 years on record.
That represents a change of up 12.9% on the previous year and up 58.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Mauritania peaked at 0.6117 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.1089 GPI, in 1978.
That places Mauritania 158th out of 177 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 30 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.1089 GPI | 0.1089 GPI | 0.1089 GPI | 1 |
| 1980s | 0.1507 GPI | 0.15 GPI | 0.1513 GPI | 2 |
| 1990s | 0.188 GPI | 0.1319 GPI | 0.2141 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.3183 GPI | 0.2066 GPI | 0.3931 GPI | 8 |
| 2010s | 0.4747 GPI | 0.3928 GPI | 0.6117 GPI | 9 |
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More education data for Mauritania
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 24,560 (2024)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 54.4% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 42.4% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 105.4% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0048 units per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Mauritania?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Mauritania was 0.6117 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Mauritania?
- The highest recorded value was 0.6117 GPI in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Mauritania?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1089 GPI in 1978.
- How does Mauritania rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Mauritania ranks 158th out of 177 countries with data for 2019.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Mauritania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 58.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Mauritania 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.