School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Small states
Small states: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.49 GPI in 2018. β² Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Small states, 1970β2018
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Small states recorded 1.49 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2018. That is the highest value across all 49 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.1% on the previous year and up 9.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Small states peaked at 1.49 GPI in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.8673 GPI, in 1975.
Small states ranks 2nd of 44 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.8826 GPI | 0.8673 GPI | 0.9048 GPI | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.9816 GPI | 0.9163 GPI | 1.04 GPI | 10 |
| 1990s | 1.14 GPI | 1.04 GPI | 1.26 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.37 GPI | 1.31 GPI | 1.42 GPI | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.43 GPI | 1.36 GPI | 1.49 GPI | 9 |
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More education data for Small states
- Population ages 0-14 24.2% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 243,069 (2024)
- Population ages 15-64 66.0% (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 100.9% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.012 units per person (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 243,069 (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 100.4% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 101.3% (2024)
- Labor force, total 8.86 million (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Small states?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Small states was 1.49 GPI in 2018, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Small states?
- The highest recorded value was 1.49 GPI in 2018.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Small states?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8673 GPI in 1975.
- How does Small states rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Small states ranks 2nd out of 44 groups with data for 2018.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Small states?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Small states 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.