School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco

Morocco: School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index was 0.9633 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.9633 GPI
Change on year
up 0.6%
World rank
156th
of 197 countries
All-time high
0.9633 GPI
in 2019
All-time low
0.5312 GPI
in 1971
Years of data
49
1971–2019

School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco, 1971–2019

00.20.40.60.81197119952019

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Morocco recorded 0.9633 GPI for school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 49 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.6% on the previous year and up 3.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco peaked at 0.9633 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.5312 GPI, in 1971.

Morocco ranks 156th of 197 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 49 years of available data.

School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco, year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index (GPI) in Morocco, 1971 to 2019.
Year GPI Change
1971 0.5312 GPI —
1972 0.5444 GPI +2.5%
1973 0.5633 GPI +3.5%
1974 0.5741 GPI +1.9%
1975 0.5782 GPI +0.7%
1976 0.5841 GPI +1.0%
1977 0.5856 GPI +0.2%
1978 0.5918 GPI +1.1%
1979 0.598 GPI +1.0%
1980 0.6018 GPI +0.6%
1981 0.6118 GPI +1.7%
1982 0.6208 GPI +1.5%
1983 0.6294 GPI +1.4%
1984 0.6268 GPI -0.4%
1985 0.6343 GPI +1.2%
1986 0.6421 GPI +1.2%
1987 0.646 GPI +0.6%
1988 0.6525 GPI +1.0%
1989 0.6605 GPI +1.2%
1990 0.6743 GPI +2.1%
1991 0.6853 GPI +1.6%
1992 0.6949 GPI +1.4%
1993 0.7055 GPI +1.5%
1994 0.7227 GPI +2.4%
1995 0.7384 GPI +2.2%
1996 0.7539 GPI +2.1%
1997 0.7674 GPI +1.8%
1998 0.7863 GPI +2.5%
1999 0.82 GPI +4.3%
2000 0.849 GPI +3.5%
2001 0.8781 GPI +3.4%
2002 0.8959 GPI +2.0%
2003 0.9067 GPI +1.2%
2004 0.9095 GPI +0.3%
2005 0.9075 GPI -0.2%
2006 0.9075 GPI +0.0%
2007 0.9137 GPI +0.7%
2008 0.9215 GPI +0.8%
2009 0.9335 GPI +1.3%
2010 0.9415 GPI +0.9%
2011 0.9484 GPI +0.7%
2012 0.9529 GPI +0.5%
2013 0.9551 GPI +0.2%
2014 0.9549 GPI -0.0%
2015 0.9482 GPI -0.7%
2016 0.9519 GPI +0.4%
2017 0.9533 GPI +0.1%
2018 0.9577 GPI +0.5%
2019 0.9633 GPI +0.6%

Morocco compared with similar countries

  • Morocco's 0.9633 GPI is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 0.9784 GPI, 98% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
  • Morocco's 0.9633 GPI is below the median for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, which is 0.9832 GPI, 98% of the median. (23 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.5723 GPI 0.5312 GPI 0.598 GPI 9
1980s 0.6326 GPI 0.6018 GPI 0.6605 GPI 10
1990s 0.7349 GPI 0.6743 GPI 0.82 GPI 10
2000s 0.9023 GPI 0.849 GPI 0.9335 GPI 10
2010s 0.9527 GPI 0.9415 GPI 0.9633 GPI 10

Countries ranked near Morocco

  1. 153 El Salvador 0.9641 GPI compare
  2. 153 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9641 GPI compare
  3. 155 Guyana 0.9638 GPI compare
  4. 157 Philippines 0.9625 GPI compare
  5. 158 French Polynesia 0.9622 GPI compare
  6. 159 Fiji 0.962 GPI compare

See the full ranking of 197 places →

More reference data data for Morocco

All data for Morocco →

Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco?
School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco was 0.9633 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index recorded in Morocco?
The highest recorded value was 0.9633 GPI in 2019.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index recorded in Morocco?
The lowest recorded value was 0.5312 GPI in 1971.
How does Morocco rank for school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index?
Morocco ranks 156th out of 197 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index rising or falling in Morocco?
Over the last ten years it is up 3.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Morocco data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 49 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, primary, gender parity index in Morocco. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 28 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/school-life-expectancy-primary-gender-parity-index-gpi/morocco/

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-primary-gender-parity-index-gpi/morocco/">School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Morocco</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
197 places, 7,121 data points, 1970–2020
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.