School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index was 0.9119 GPI in 2016. ▲ Rising

Latest (2016)
0.9119 GPI
World rank
181st
of 197 countries
All-time high
0.9119 GPI
in 2016
All-time low
0.5721 GPI
in 1973
Years of data
36
1970–2016

School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Papua New Guinea, 1970–2016

00.20.40.60.811970199320161970: 0.603 GPI1971: 0.598 GPI1972: 0.579 GPI1973: 0.572 GPI1974: 0.587 GPI1975: 0.627 GPI1976: 0.628 GPI1977: 0.655 GPI1978: 0.689 GPI1979: 0.722 GPI1981: 0.763 GPI1982: 0.79 GPI1984: 0.813 GPI1986: 0.828 GPI1987: 0.837 GPI1988: 0.84 GPI1989: 0.839 GPI1990: 0.842 GPI1991: 0.85 GPI1992: 0.85 GPI1993: 0.865 GPI1994: 0.862 GPI1995: 0.874 GPI1996: 0.857 GPI1997: 0.87 GPI1998: 0.871 GPI2000: 0.862 GPI2001: 0.858 GPI2002: 0.847 GPI2003: 0.856 GPI2004: 0.864 GPI2005: 0.847 GPI2006: 0.846 GPI2008: 0.885 GPI2012: 0.886 GPI2016: 0.912 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Papua New Guinea recorded 0.9119 GPI for school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in 2016. That is the highest value across all 36 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 7.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Papua New Guinea peaked at 0.9119 GPI in 2016 and was at its lowest, 0.5721 GPI, in 1973.

That places Papua New Guinea 181st out of 197 countries with data for 2016, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.626 GPI 0.5721 GPI 0.7223 GPI 10
1980s 0.8157 GPI 0.7626 GPI 0.8396 GPI 7
1990s 0.8603 GPI 0.8423 GPI 0.8745 GPI 9
2000s 0.858 GPI 0.8461 GPI 0.885 GPI 8
2010s 0.8987 GPI 0.8855 GPI 0.9119 GPI 2

Countries ranked near Papua New Guinea

  1. 178 Guinea-Bissau 0.9204 GPI compare
  2. 179 Tuvalu 0.9171 GPI compare
  3. 180 Eswatini 0.9167 GPI compare
  4. 182 Lebanon 0.9115 GPI compare
  5. 183 Ethiopia 0.9076 GPI compare
  6. 184 Mali 0.8997 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Papua New Guinea?
School life expectancy, primary, gender parity index in Papua New Guinea was 0.9119 GPI in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 0.9119 GPI in 2016.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index recorded in Papua New Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 0.5721 GPI in 1973.
How does Papua New Guinea rank for school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index?
Papua New Guinea ranks 181st out of 197 countries with data for 2016.
Is school life expectancy, primary, gender parity index rising or falling in Papua New Guinea?
Over the last ten years it is up 7.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Papua New Guinea 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.

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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.