School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income
Upper middle income: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.18 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income, 1973–2019
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.
Analysis
Upper middle income recorded 1.18 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 47 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 4.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income peaked at 1.18 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.8441 GPI, in 1986.
Upper middle income ranks 15th of 43 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 47 years of available data.
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income, year by year
| Year | GPI | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 0.9958 GPI | — |
| 1974 | 0.985 GPI | -1.1% |
| 1975 | 0.9692 GPI | -1.6% |
| 1976 | 0.9545 GPI | -1.5% |
| 1977 | 0.9579 GPI | +0.4% |
| 1978 | 0.9539 GPI | -0.4% |
| 1979 | 0.9307 GPI | -2.4% |
| 1980 | 0.9217 GPI | -1.0% |
| 1981 | 0.8927 GPI | -3.1% |
| 1982 | 0.8892 GPI | -0.4% |
| 1983 | 0.8884 GPI | -0.1% |
| 1984 | 0.8778 GPI | -1.2% |
| 1985 | 0.8567 GPI | -2.4% |
| 1986 | 0.8441 GPI | -1.5% |
| 1987 | 0.8538 GPI | +1.2% |
| 1988 | 0.8648 GPI | +1.3% |
| 1989 | 0.8758 GPI | +1.3% |
| 1990 | 0.8832 GPI | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 0.8925 GPI | +1.0% |
| 1992 | 0.9073 GPI | +1.7% |
| 1993 | 0.9201 GPI | +1.4% |
| 1994 | 0.9137 GPI | -0.7% |
| 1995 | 0.9156 GPI | +0.2% |
| 1996 | 0.912 GPI | -0.4% |
| 1997 | 0.932 GPI | +2.2% |
| 1998 | 0.9632 GPI | +3.3% |
| 1999 | 0.9925 GPI | +3.0% |
| 2000 | 1.01 GPI | +2.0% |
| 2001 | 1.01 GPI | -0.7% |
| 2002 | 1.02 GPI | +1.7% |
| 2003 | 1.02 GPI | -0.2% |
| 2004 | 1.04 GPI | +1.8% |
| 2005 | 1.05 GPI | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 1.07 GPI | +1.8% |
| 2007 | 1.1 GPI | +3.1% |
| 2008 | 1.12 GPI | +1.6% |
| 2009 | 1.13 GPI | +1.2% |
| 2010 | 1.13 GPI | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 1.14 GPI | +0.6% |
| 2012 | 1.15 GPI | +1.3% |
| 2013 | 1.16 GPI | +0.6% |
| 2014 | 1.16 GPI | -0.1% |
| 2015 | 1.16 GPI | +0.2% |
| 2016 | 1.17 GPI | +0.5% |
| 2017 | 1.17 GPI | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 1.18 GPI | +0.7% |
| 2019 | 1.18 GPI | +0.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.9639 GPI | 0.9307 GPI | 0.9958 GPI | 7 |
| 1980s | 0.8765 GPI | 0.8441 GPI | 0.9217 GPI | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.9232 GPI | 0.8832 GPI | 0.9925 GPI | 10 |
| 2000s | 1.06 GPI | 1.01 GPI | 1.13 GPI | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.16 GPI | 1.13 GPI | 1.18 GPI | 10 |
Countries ranked near Upper middle income
More education data for Upper middle income
- Population ages 0-14 19.6% (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 68.5% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 13.41 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 100.7% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 13.41 million (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0044 units per person (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 100.7% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 100.7% (2024)
- Labor force, total 1.53 billion (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Upper middle income was 1.18 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Upper middle income?
- The highest recorded value was 1.18 GPI in 2019.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Upper middle income?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.8441 GPI in 1986.
- How does Upper middle income rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
- Upper middle income ranks 15th out of 43 groups with data for 2019.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Upper middle income?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Upper 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.