School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho

Lesotho: School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity was 1.02 GPI in 2017. ▼ Falling

Latest (2017)
1.02 GPI
Change on year
down 0.6%
World rank
26th
of 188 countries
All-time high
1.13 GPI
in 1996
All-time low
1.02 GPI
in 2017
Years of data
21
1996–2017

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho, 1996–2017

00.250.50.7511.21996200620171996: 1.1 GPI1998: 1.1 GPI1999: 1.1 GPI2000: 1.1 GPI2001: 1 GPI2002: 1 GPI2003: 1 GPI2004: 1 GPI2005: 1 GPI2006: 1 GPI2007: 1 GPI2008: 1 GPI2009: 1 GPI2010: 1 GPI2011: 1 GPI2012: 1 GPI2013: 1 GPI2014: 1 GPI2015: 1 GPI2016: 1 GPI2017: 1 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Lesotho recorded 1.02 GPI for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in 2017. That is the lowest value across all 21 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.6% on the previous year and down 1.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho peaked at 1.13 GPI in 1996 and was at its lowest, 1.02 GPI, in 2017.

Lesotho ranks 26th of 188 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 21 years of available data.

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho, year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI) in Lesotho, 1996 to 2017.
Year GPI Change
1996 1.13 GPI —
1998 1.11 GPI -1.8%
1999 1.09 GPI -2.0%
2000 1.06 GPI -3.2%
2001 1.04 GPI -1.8%
2002 1.03 GPI -0.1%
2003 1.03 GPI -0.4%
2004 1.02 GPI -0.6%
2005 1.03 GPI +0.2%
2006 1.03 GPI -0.2%
2007 1.03 GPI +0.7%
2008 1.03 GPI +0.2%
2009 1.05 GPI +1.4%
2010 1.03 GPI -1.4%
2011 1.02 GPI -0.9%
2012 1.02 GPI -0.1%
2013 1.03 GPI +0.3%
2014 1.03 GPI -0.0%
2015 1.02 GPI -0.4%
2016 1.02 GPI +0.0%
2017 1.02 GPI -0.6%

Lesotho compared with similar countries

  • Lesotho's 1.02 GPI is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 1 GPI, 1.0× the median. (44 countries reporting)
  • Lesotho's 1.02 GPI is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 0.982 GPI, 1.0× the median. (43 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 1.11 GPI 1.09 GPI 1.13 GPI 3
2000s 1.03 GPI 1.02 GPI 1.06 GPI 10
2010s 1.02 GPI 1.02 GPI 1.03 GPI 8

Countries ranked near Lesotho

  1. 23 Madagascar 1.02 GPI compare
  2. 24 Nepal 1.02 GPI compare
  3. 25 Palestine 1.02 GPI compare
  4. 27 Ghana 1.02 GPI compare
  5. 28 Malaysia 1.02 GPI compare
  6. 29 Honduras 1.02 GPI compare

See the full ranking of 233 places →

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho?
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Lesotho was 1.02 GPI in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity recorded in Lesotho?
The highest recorded value was 1.13 GPI in 1996.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity recorded in Lesotho?
The lowest recorded value was 1.02 GPI in 2017.
How does Lesotho rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity?
Lesotho ranks 26th out of 188 countries with data for 2017.
Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity rising or falling in Lesotho?
Over the last ten years it is down 1.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Lesotho data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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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.