School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 0.7488 GPI in 2018. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970–2018
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Sub-Saharan Africa recorded 0.7488 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2018. That is the highest value across all 49 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.6% on the previous year and up 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa peaked at 0.7488 GPI in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.516 GPI, in 1990.
That places Sub-Saharan Africa 37th out of 43 groups with data for 2018, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa, year by year
| Year | GPI | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0.6758 GPI | — |
| 1971 | 0.6753 GPI | -0.1% |
| 1972 | 0.6541 GPI | -3.1% |
| 1973 | 0.639 GPI | -2.3% |
| 1974 | 0.6268 GPI | -1.9% |
| 1975 | 0.6162 GPI | -1.7% |
| 1976 | 0.6077 GPI | -1.4% |
| 1977 | 0.5962 GPI | -1.9% |
| 1978 | 0.5789 GPI | -2.9% |
| 1979 | 0.5624 GPI | -2.9% |
| 1980 | 0.5562 GPI | -1.1% |
| 1981 | 0.5441 GPI | -2.2% |
| 1982 | 0.5393 GPI | -0.9% |
| 1983 | 0.5385 GPI | -0.1% |
| 1984 | 0.5383 GPI | -0.0% |
| 1985 | 0.5304 GPI | -1.5% |
| 1986 | 0.5303 GPI | -0.0% |
| 1987 | 0.5421 GPI | +2.2% |
| 1988 | 0.5223 GPI | -3.7% |
| 1989 | 0.5192 GPI | -0.6% |
| 1990 | 0.516 GPI | -0.6% |
| 1991 | 0.5328 GPI | +3.2% |
| 1992 | 0.5504 GPI | +3.3% |
| 1993 | 0.5643 GPI | +2.5% |
| 1994 | 0.5968 GPI | +5.8% |
| 1995 | 0.6143 GPI | +2.9% |
| 1996 | 0.6342 GPI | +3.2% |
| 1997 | 0.6536 GPI | +3.1% |
| 1998 | 0.6775 GPI | +3.7% |
| 1999 | 0.6998 GPI | +3.3% |
| 2000 | 0.7012 GPI | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 0.6941 GPI | -1.0% |
| 2002 | 0.6994 GPI | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 0.6853 GPI | -2.0% |
| 2004 | 0.6954 GPI | +1.5% |
| 2005 | 0.6988 GPI | +0.5% |
| 2006 | 0.7055 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2007 | 0.7019 GPI | -0.5% |
| 2008 | 0.6939 GPI | -1.1% |
| 2009 | 0.7005 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 0.6956 GPI | -0.7% |
| 2011 | 0.6832 GPI | -1.8% |
| 2012 | 0.7067 GPI | +3.4% |
| 2013 | 0.7156 GPI | +1.3% |
| 2014 | 0.7111 GPI | -0.6% |
| 2015 | 0.7186 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 0.7303 GPI | +1.6% |
| 2017 | 0.7373 GPI | +1.0% |
| 2018 | 0.7488 GPI | +1.6% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.6232 GPI | 0.5624 GPI | 0.6758 GPI | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.5361 GPI | 0.5192 GPI | 0.5562 GPI | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.604 GPI | 0.516 GPI | 0.6998 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.6976 GPI | 0.6853 GPI | 0.7055 GPI | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.7164 GPI | 0.6832 GPI | 0.7488 GPI | 9 |
Countries ranked near Sub-Saharan Africa
More education data for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 5.14 million (2024)
- Population ages 0-14 40.4% (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 56.4% (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 97.1% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.004 units per person (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 5.14 million (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 96.0% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 98.2% (2024)
- Labor force, total 526.96 million (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Sub-Saharan Africa was 0.7488 GPI in 2018, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The highest recorded value was 0.7488 GPI in 2018.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.516 GPI in 1990.
- How does Sub-Saharan Africa rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Sub-Saharan Africa ranks 37th out of 43 groups with data for 2018.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Sub-Saharan Africa?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Sub-Saharan Africa 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.