School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of

Palestine, State of: School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index was 1.6 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
1.6 GPI
Change on year
up 4.5%
World rank
29th
of 177 countries
All-time high
1.6 GPI
in 2019
All-time low
0.8026 GPI
in 1996
Years of data
24
1996–2019

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of, 1996–2019

00.511.51996200720191996: 0.803 GPI1997: 0.828 GPI1998: 0.831 GPI1999: 0.82 GPI2000: 0.904 GPI2001: 0.888 GPI2002: 0.908 GPI2003: 0.97 GPI2004: 0.974 GPI2005: 1 GPI2006: 1.2 GPI2007: 1.2 GPI2008: 1.2 GPI2009: 1.3 GPI2010: 1.3 GPI2011: 1.3 GPI2012: 1.4 GPI2013: 1.5 GPI2014: 1.5 GPI2015: 1.5 GPI2016: 1.6 GPI2017: 1.6 GPI2018: 1.5 GPI2019: 1.6 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Palestine, State of recorded 1.6 GPI for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.

That represents a change of up 4.5% on the previous year and up 27.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of peaked at 1.6 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.8026 GPI, in 1996.

Palestine, State of ranks 29th of 177 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.

School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of, year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI) in Palestine, State of, 1996 to 2019.
Year GPI Change
1996 0.8026 GPI
1997 0.8278 GPI +3.1%
1998 0.8313 GPI +0.4%
1999 0.8203 GPI -1.3%
2000 0.904 GPI +10.2%
2001 0.8879 GPI -1.8%
2002 0.9085 GPI +2.3%
2003 0.9697 GPI +6.7%
2004 0.9737 GPI +0.4%
2005 1.02 GPI +4.6%
2006 1.16 GPI +13.7%
2007 1.17 GPI +0.9%
2008 1.18 GPI +0.8%
2009 1.25 GPI +6.5%
2010 1.29 GPI +2.7%
2011 1.33 GPI +3.0%
2012 1.37 GPI +3.0%
2013 1.45 GPI +6.1%
2014 1.5 GPI +3.7%
2015 1.53 GPI +1.8%
2016 1.55 GPI +1.5%
2017 1.58 GPI +1.6%
2018 1.53 GPI -2.9%
2019 1.6 GPI +4.5%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.8205 GPI 0.8026 GPI 0.8313 GPI 4
2000s 1.04 GPI 0.8879 GPI 1.25 GPI 10
2010s 1.47 GPI 1.29 GPI 1.6 GPI 10

Countries ranked near Palestine, State of

  1. 26 Uruguay 1.65 GPI compare
  2. 27 Lesotho 1.62 GPI compare
  3. 28 Sri Lanka 1.6 GPI compare
  4. 30 Albania 1.59 GPI compare
  5. 31 Sweden 1.58 GPI compare
  6. 32 Cuba 1.58 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of?
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index in Palestine, State of was 1.6 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Palestine, State of?
The highest recorded value was 1.6 GPI in 2019.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index recorded in Palestine, State of?
The lowest recorded value was 0.8026 GPI in 1996.
How does Palestine, State of rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index?
Palestine, State of ranks 29th out of 177 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index rising or falling in Palestine, State of?
Over the last ten years it is up 27.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Palestine, State of 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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Indicator
School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
222 places, 6,910 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

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.