School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity index (GPI) by country

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...

Countries reporting

105

Highest

4.46 GPI

Qatar

Lowest

0.1559 GPI

North Macedonia

Median

0.9749 GPI

Years covered

1998–2020

Data points

1,359

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 105 countries. The highest value is 4.46 GPI in Qatar; the lowest is 0.1559 GPI in North Macedonia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9749 GPI, and the mean is 1.18 GPI.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 29.

Over the past decade 56 countries rose and 46 fell. The largest increase was in India (up 692.7%), and the largest decrease in Grenada (down 72.7%).

School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity ind: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Qatar	4.46 GPI	2019	down 9.9%	falling
2	Austria	4.03 GPI	2018	up 169.8%	volatile
3	Colombia	3.79 GPI	2018	up 10.8%	rising
4	India	3.42 GPI	2019	up 692.7%	volatile
5	Cuba	2.97 GPI	2019	up 7.1%	volatile
6	Estonia	2.75 GPI	2018	up 24.2%	flat
7	Poland	2.59 GPI	2018	up 37.6%	rising
8	Norway	2.55 GPI	2018	up 448.1%	volatile
9	Romania	2.28 GPI	2018	down 22.0%	rising
10	Georgia	2.16 GPI	2019	up 4.6%	rising
11	Seychelles	2.07 GPI	2019	up 36.8%	rising
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2 GPI	2017	down 25.0%	rising
13	Saint Lucia	1.97 GPI	2019	up 1.3%	rising
14	France	1.92 GPI	2018	down 16.2%	rising
15	Slovenia	1.77 GPI	2012	down 27.1%	rising
16	Latvia	1.76 GPI	2018	up 53.3%	falling
17	Jamaica	1.72 GPI	2019	up 38.3%	rising
18	South Africa	1.71 GPI	2018	up 59.9%	rising
19	Cameroon	1.63 GPI	2016	up 117.3%	rising
20	Trinidad and Tobago	1.63 GPI	2010	down 1.0%	rising
21	Antigua and Barbuda	1.63 GPI	2012	up 4.8%	flat
22	Palestine	1.58 GPI	2019	up 48.2%	rising
23	Switzerland	1.55 GPI	2018	up 29.3%	falling
24	United States	1.52 GPI	2018	down 13.6%	falling
25	Cayman Islands	1.51 GPI	2018	up 21.0%	falling
26	Spain	1.5 GPI	2018	—	rising
27	Belize	1.49 GPI	2008	up 252.7%	rising
28	Czechia	1.47 GPI	2018	up 107.0%	volatile
29	Mauritania	1.44 GPI	2005	up 50.2%	rising
30	Finland	1.43 GPI	2018	up 25.8%	rising
31	Sweden	1.39 GPI	2018	up 24.2%	rising
32	Fiji	1.36 GPI	2016	up 9.1%	rising
33	Guyana	1.34 GPI	2012	down 58.3%	volatile
34	Germany	1.34 GPI	2018	down 4.7%	flat
35	Dominica	1.31 GPI	2016	down 48.8%	volatile
36	Brazil	1.3 GPI	2017	—	rising
37	Mauritius	1.28 GPI	2018	up 1.9%	rising
38	Hungary	1.26 GPI	2018	up 36.8%	rising
39	Lithuania	1.25 GPI	2018	up 13.2%	falling
40	Iran	1.24 GPI	2012	up 612.6%	volatile
41	Gibraltar	1.22 GPI	2019	up 23.8%	falling
42	Moldova	1.22 GPI	2019	up 204.3%	volatile
43	Greece	1.21 GPI	2018	up 5.0%	flat
44	Eritrea	1.19 GPI	2017	up 56.1%	rising
45	Slovakia	1.19 GPI	2018	up 42.7%	falling
46	Brunei	1.18 GPI	2012	down 21.9%	rising
47	New Zealand	1.15 GPI	2018	up 35.8%	rising
48	Puerto Rico	1.12 GPI	2018	up 9.1%	falling
49	Belgium	1.09 GPI	2018	up 0.6%	falling
50	China	1.07 GPI	2019	up 53.9%	falling
51	Philippines	1.02 GPI	2017	down 9.4%	flat
52	Tanzania	0.9915 GPI	2019	up 20.6%	flat
53	Kazakhstan	0.9749 GPI	2019	up 6.7%	falling
54	Barbados	0.8958 GPI	2019	down 12.0%	rising
55	Tonga	0.8926 GPI	2015	down 20.5%	falling
56	Azerbaijan	0.8906 GPI	2019	down 34.7%	flat
57	Lesotho	0.886 GPI	2014	down 11.4%	falling
58	Comoros	0.8613 GPI	2004	up 35.5%	rising
59	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.8536 GPI	2009	down 62.7%	falling
60	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.8464 GPI	2016	down 14.5%	falling
61	Kenya	0.818 GPI	2016	down 21.9%	rising
62	Panama	0.8135 GPI	2007	down 48.5%	falling
63	Uganda	0.8114 GPI	2017	up 81.5%	rising
64	Pakistan	0.7966 GPI	2019	down 14.7%	falling
65	Egypt	0.7792 GPI	2014	down 38.8%	falling
66	Tunisia	0.7704 GPI	2016	up 105.7%	rising
67	Hong Kong	0.746 GPI	2019	up 18.9%	rising
68	Israel	0.7309 GPI	2018	down 13.2%	falling
69	Kyrgyzstan	0.727 GPI	2019	up 9.5%	falling
70	Kuwait	0.7116 GPI	2013	down 72.6%	falling
71	Namibia	0.7115 GPI	2018	up 71.6%	rising
72	Italy	0.6987 GPI	2016	down 44.7%	falling
73	Cape Verde	0.6935 GPI	2018	down 70.4%	volatile
75	Syria	0.6723 GPI	2013	down 53.6%	falling
76	Liechtenstein	0.6644 GPI	2009	up 42.4%	rising
77	Ukraine	0.6455 GPI	2019	down 25.3%	falling
78	Mongolia	0.6432 GPI	2018	down 38.7%	falling
79	Ethiopia	0.6424 GPI	2004	up 31.6%	flat
80	Ireland	0.6326 GPI	2018	up 5.4%	falling
81	Cambodia	0.6296 GPI	2010	up 70.5%	rising
82	Bahrain	0.6288 GPI	2019	down 5.5%	rising
83	Belarus	0.6128 GPI	2018	down 22.9%	falling
84	Laos	0.6035 GPI	2019	down 20.1%	flat
85	Bulgaria	0.596 GPI	2018	down 52.4%	falling
86	Niger	0.5942 GPI	2017	up 3.5%	rising
87	Russia	0.5671 GPI	2018	down 43.9%	falling
88	Madagascar	0.5655 GPI	2019	up 17.5%	rising
89	Afghanistan	0.562 GPI	2018	down 10.1%	rising
90	Iceland	0.5573 GPI	2018	up 0.0%	rising
91	Vanuatu	0.5401 GPI	2015	down 52.6%	falling
92	Grenada	0.5269 GPI	2018	down 72.7%	volatile
93	Burkina Faso	0.5207 GPI	2013	up 31.1%	rising
94	Malta	0.4854 GPI	2018	down 26.7%	falling
95	Portugal	0.4849 GPI	2018	up 2.7%	rising
96	Malaysia	0.4729 GPI	2011	down 44.8%	falling
97	Bhutan	0.4346 GPI	2020	down 34.7%	rising
98	Rwanda	0.3699 GPI	2019	down 28.5%	falling
99	Luxembourg	0.3134 GPI	2018	down 6.3%	flat
100	Mali	0.3115 GPI	2018	down 21.9%	falling
101	Cyprus	0.3016 GPI	2017	—	rising
102	Netherlands	0.2733 GPI	2014	down 12.4%	falling
103	Denmark	0.2689 GPI	2012	up 9.1%	falling
104	Serbia	0.2377 GPI	2019	down 8.9%	flat
105	Bangladesh	0.2289 GPI	2019	up 8.2%	volatile
106	North Macedonia	0.1559 GPI	2018	down 0.2%	rising

About this data

Indicator: School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit: GPI
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 106 places, 1,359 data points, 1998–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026