Bahrain vs Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income): School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity

Bahrain
1.01 GPI
in 2019
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)
0.9501 GPI
in 2019
Bahrain rank
34th
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) rank
34th

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity over time

  • Bahrain
  • Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)
00.250.50.751199420062019

How they compare

Bahrain currently reports 1.01 GPI against 0.9501 GPI in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income), a difference of 0.0599 GPI.

That makes Bahrain's figure about 1.1 times Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)'s.

Across all 20 years both countries report, Bahrain has been ahead every year.

Bahrain ranks 34th and Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) ranks 34th of 188 countries.

Bahrain has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bahrain Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1990s 0.9991 GPI 0.849 GPI 0.1502 GPI Bahrain
2000s 1.03 GPI 0.8903 GPI 0.1403 GPI Bahrain
2010s 1.01 GPI 0.9407 GPI 0.0657 GPI Bahrain

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity, Bahrain or Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)?
Bahrain, at 1.01 GPI against 0.9501 GPI in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) as of 2019.
What is the difference in school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity between Bahrain and Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)?
0.0599 GPI, with Bahrain ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bahrain and Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income)?
20 years are reported by both, from 1996 to 2019.
How do Bahrain and Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) rank globally for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity?
Bahrain ranks 34th and Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) ranks 34th of 188 countries.
Where does this data come from?
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
233 places, 4,492 data points, 1981–2020
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.