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

Madagascar: School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity was 1.02 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
1.02 GPI
Change on year
up 0.8%
World rank
23rd
of 188 countries
All-time high
1.02 GPI
in 2019
All-time low
0.9523 GPI
in 2005
Years of data
14
1998–2019

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Madagascar, 1998–2019

00.250.50.7511998200820191998: 0.963 GPI2005: 0.952 GPI2006: 0.955 GPI2007: 0.96 GPI2008: 0.96 GPI2009: 0.965 GPI2011: 0.969 GPI2012: 0.978 GPI2013: 0.984 GPI2014: 0.992 GPI2015: 0.995 GPI2016: 1 GPI2018: 1 GPI2019: 1 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Madagascar recorded 1.02 GPI for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in 2019. That is the highest value across all 14 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and up 5.6% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Madagascar peaked at 1.02 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.9523 GPI, in 2005.

That places Madagascar 23rd out of 188 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 14 years of available data.

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

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI) in Madagascar, 1998 to 2019.
Year GPI Change
1998 0.9629 GPI —
2005 0.9523 GPI -1.1%
2006 0.955 GPI +0.3%
2007 0.9598 GPI +0.5%
2008 0.9601 GPI +0.0%
2009 0.9649 GPI +0.5%
2011 0.9692 GPI +0.4%
2012 0.9782 GPI +0.9%
2013 0.9844 GPI +0.6%
2014 0.9922 GPI +0.8%
2015 0.9951 GPI +0.3%
2016 0.9996 GPI +0.4%
2018 1.01 GPI +1.1%
2019 1.02 GPI +0.8%

Madagascar compared with similar countries

  • Madagascar's 1.02 GPI is above the median for low income countries, which is 0.9368 GPI, 1.1× the median. (20 countries reporting)
  • Madagascar'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 0.9629 GPI 0.9629 GPI 0.9629 GPI 1
2000s 0.9584 GPI 0.9523 GPI 0.9649 GPI 5
2010s 0.9935 GPI 0.9692 GPI 1.02 GPI 8

Countries ranked near Madagascar

  1. 20 Aruba 1.02 GPI compare
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  3. 22 Sierra Leone 1.02 GPI compare
  4. 24 Nepal 1.02 GPI compare
  5. 25 Palestine 1.02 GPI compare
  6. 26 Lesotho 1.02 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Madagascar?
School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity in Madagascar was 1.02 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity recorded in Madagascar?
The highest recorded value was 1.02 GPI in 2019.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity recorded in Madagascar?
The lowest recorded value was 0.9523 GPI in 2005.
How does Madagascar rank for school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity?
Madagascar ranks 23rd out of 188 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, gender parity rising or falling in Madagascar?
Over the last ten years it is up 5.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Madagascar 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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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.