School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil

Brazil: School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity was 1.3 GPI in 2017. ▲ Rising

Latest (2017)
1.3 GPI
Change on year
up 5.4%
World rank
36th
of 106 countries
All-time high
1.3 GPI
in 2017
All-time low
1.18 GPI
in 2013
Years of data
5
2013–2017

School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil, 2013–2017

00.511.52013201520172013: 1.2 GPI2014: 1.2 GPI2015: 1.2 GPI2016: 1.2 GPI2017: 1.3 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

The most recent figure for school life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil is 1.3 GPI, measured in 2017. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of up 5.4% on the previous year and up 10.6% over five years.

That places Brazil 36th out of 106 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the middle of the range.

School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil, year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity index (GPI) in Brazil, 2013 to 2017.
Year GPI Change
2013 1.18 GPI —
2014 1.23 GPI +4.0%
2015 1.2 GPI -2.1%
2016 1.24 GPI +3.0%
2017 1.3 GPI +5.4%

Brazil compared with similar countries

  • Brazil's 1.3 GPI is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 1.22 GPI, 1.1× the median. (27 countries reporting)
  • Brazil's 1.3 GPI is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 1.42 GPI, 92% of the median. (18 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Brazil

  1. 33 Guyana 1.34 GPI
  2. 34 Germany 1.34 GPI compare
  3. 35 Dominica 1.31 GPI
  4. 37 Mauritius 1.28 GPI compare
  5. 38 Hungary 1.26 GPI compare
  6. 39 Lithuania 1.25 GPI compare

See the full ranking of 106 places →

More reference data data for Brazil

All data for Brazil →

Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil?
School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil was 1.3 GPI in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity recorded in Brazil?
The highest recorded value was 1.3 GPI in 2017.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity recorded in Brazil?
The lowest recorded value was 1.18 GPI in 2013.
How does Brazil rank for school life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity?
Brazil ranks 36th out of 106 countries with data for 2017.
Where does this Brazil data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 5 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 29 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/school-life-expectancy-post-secondary-non-tertiary-gender-parity-index-gpi/brazil/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/school-life-expectancy-post-secondary-non-tertiary-gender-parity-index-gpi/brazil/">School life expectancy, post-secondary non-tertiary, gender parity in Brazil</a> — Statizoid

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

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.