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School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index (GPI) by country

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...

Countries reporting
195
Highest
1.35 GPI
Lesotho
Lowest
0.4608 GPI
Somalia
Median
1.01 GPI
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
5,786

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 195 countries. The highest value is 1.35 GPI in Lesotho; the lowest is 0.4608 GPI in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.01 GPI, and the mean is 0.9872 GPI.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 82 fell. The largest increase was in Benin (up 62.4%), and the largest decrease in Maldives (down 21.0%).

School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Lesotho 1.35 GPI 2017 up 2.4% flat
2 Tuvalu 1.34 GPI 2019 up 12.1% rising
3 Suriname 1.33 GPI 2015 down 1.0% rising
4 French Polynesia 1.27 GPI 1993 — falling
5 Libya 1.18 GPI 2006 — rising
6 Bangladesh 1.17 GPI 2019 up 8.5% rising
7 Sao Tome and Principe 1.16 GPI 2017 up 8.7% rising
8 Tunisia 1.14 GPI 2016 up 3.2% rising
9 Bhutan 1.14 GPI 2018 up 17.5% volatile
10 Senegal 1.13 GPI 2019 up 43.0% rising
11 Burundi 1.13 GPI 2019 up 60.8% rising
12 Honduras 1.12 GPI 2019 down 12.0% rising
13 Bermuda 1.12 GPI 2015 down 0.8% flat
14 Rwanda 1.12 GPI 2019 up 19.7% rising
15 Nicaragua 1.12 GPI 2010 down 5.4% rising
16 Namibia 1.12 GPI 2007 down 0.1% falling
17 Palau 1.12 GPI 2014 up 10.9% rising
18 Ireland 1.11 GPI 2018 up 4.8% falling
19 Uruguay 1.11 GPI 2018 down 2.1% flat
20 Philippines 1.11 GPI 2018 up 2.4% flat
21 Andorra 1.11 GPI 1983 up 14.5% rising
22 Cape Verde 1.11 GPI 2018 down 1.2% rising
23 Samoa 1.11 GPI 2016 down 3.7% flat
24 Kiribati 1.11 GPI 2008 up 2.9% rising
25 Belgium 1.1 GPI 2018 down 2.7% rising
26 Palestine 1.1 GPI 2019 up 2.8% rising
27 Fiji 1.1 GPI 2012 up 2.1% rising
28 Finland 1.09 GPI 2018 up 4.2% falling
29 Bahrain 1.09 GPI 2019 up 3.8% rising
30 Botswana 1.09 GPI 2008 up 2.8% rising
31 Brazil 1.09 GPI 2011 up 1.4% flat
32 Puerto Rico 1.09 GPI 2018 up 6.2% rising
33 East Timor 1.09 GPI 2019 up 15.0% rising
34 Myanmar 1.09 GPI 2018 up 9.1% rising
35 Dominican Republic 1.08 GPI 2019 down 3.8% falling
36 Micronesia (country) 1.08 GPI 2005 — rising
37 Mexico 1.08 GPI 2018 up 1.3% rising
38 Venezuela 1.08 GPI 2017 down 3.3% falling
39 Paraguay 1.08 GPI 2012 up 5.4% flat
40 Malaysia 1.08 GPI 2019 down 0.5% rising
41 Trinidad and Tobago 1.07 GPI 2004 up 3.4% flat
42 Mongolia 1.07 GPI 2010 down 13.6% rising
43 Marshall Islands 1.07 GPI 2019 up 2.3% flat
44 British Virgin Islands 1.07 GPI 2018 down 4.4% falling
45 South Africa 1.07 GPI 2018 up 1.8% falling
46 Comoros 1.07 GPI 2018 up 40.1% rising
47 Seychelles 1.07 GPI 2019 down 2.5% falling
48 Costa Rica 1.07 GPI 2019 up 2.0% falling
49 Kuwait 1.07 GPI 2015 down 3.8% rising
50 Bahamas 1.06 GPI 2018 up 5.8% falling
51 Tanzania 1.06 GPI 2019 up 29.0% rising
52 Nepal 1.06 GPI 2019 up 18.5% rising
53 Panama 1.06 GPI 2017 down 1.4% falling
54 Armenia 1.06 GPI 2019 up 7.6% flat
55 New Zealand 1.06 GPI 2018 up 0.8% rising
56 Colombia 1.05 GPI 2018 down 4.2% rising
57 Mauritania 1.05 GPI 2019 up 25.6% rising
58 Sri Lanka 1.05 GPI 2018 up 3.8% falling
59 Croatia 1.05 GPI 2018 up 0.8% flat
60 Barbados 1.04 GPI 2019 up 3.2% flat
61 Argentina 1.04 GPI 2017 down 6.2% flat
62 Algeria 1.04 GPI 2011 down 2.3% rising
62 Sweden 1.04 GPI 2018 up 4.6% flat
64 Grenada 1.04 GPI 2018 up 12.4% falling
65 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.04 GPI 2016 down 6.2% flat
66 Brunei 1.04 GPI 2019 up 3.4% flat
67 Nauru 1.03 GPI 2019 down 2.6% falling
68 Dominica 1.03 GPI 2019 down 7.5% falling
69 Djibouti 1.03 GPI 2020 up 28.2% rising
70 Guyana 1.03 GPI 2012 up 3.4% flat
71 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.03 GPI 2018 down 8.4% falling
72 Ecuador 1.03 GPI 2018 up 1.3% rising
73 Tonga 1.03 GPI 2015 up 2.5% flat
74 Jordan 1.03 GPI 2019 down 0.5% rising
75 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.02 GPI 2018 down 6.9% falling
76 Madagascar 1.02 GPI 2019 up 10.9% rising
77 Indonesia 1.02 GPI 2018 up 3.2% rising
78 Burkina Faso 1.02 GPI 2019 up 37.7% rising
79 Jamaica 1.02 GPI 2019 down 0.8% falling
80 Mauritius 1.02 GPI 2019 down 2.1% rising
81 Slovenia 1.02 GPI 2018 up 2.1% flat
82 Luxembourg 1.02 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
83 Belize 1.02 GPI 2019 down 4.2% flat
84 Montenegro 1.02 GPI 2019 down 0.9% flat
85 Israel 1.02 GPI 2018 up 0.1% falling
86 Aruba 1.02 GPI 2012 down 3.2% flat
87 India 1.02 GPI 2019 up 8.8% rising
88 Eswatini 1.02 GPI 2016 up 15.0% rising
89 Estonia 1.01 GPI 2018 down 2.2% falling
90 United Kingdom 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.2% flat
91 Albania 1.01 GPI 2019 down 1.8% rising
92 Vanuatu 1.01 GPI 2015 up 17.3% rising
93 Cayman Islands 1.01 GPI 2018 down 8.2% falling
94 Serbia 1.01 GPI 2019 down 1.3% flat
95 Slovakia 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
96 Macao 1.01 GPI 2019 up 2.8% falling
97 Canada 1.01 GPI 2018 up 3.4% flat
98 Cuba 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.1% flat
99 Georgia 1.01 GPI 2019 down 2.2% rising
100 Netherlands 1.01 GPI 2018 up 3.0% rising
101 Spain 1.01 GPI 2018 down 4.1% rising
102 Kazakhstan 1.01 GPI 2019 down 0.2% falling
103 Denmark 1.01 GPI 2018 down 1.6% flat
104 France 1 GPI 2018 up 0.1% falling
105 Sudan 1 GPI 2017 up 9.8% rising
106 Malta 1 GPI 2018 up 3.4% rising
107 Romania 1 GPI 2018 up 0.5% rising
108 Chile 1 GPI 2018 down 2.4% falling
109 Czechia 0.9998 GPI 2018 down 1.4% falling
110 Kyrgyzstan 0.9975 GPI 2019 down 5.0% flat
111 Hungary 0.9967 GPI 2018 up 0.9% rising
112 Azerbaijan 0.9964 GPI 2019 — flat
113 China 0.9963 GPI 2010 up 7.3% rising
114 Ghana 0.9959 GPI 2019 up 13.5% rising
115 Iceland 0.9957 GPI 2018 down 3.3% rising
116 Uzbekistan 0.9948 GPI 2019 down 1.1% flat
117 Syria 0.9948 GPI 2013 up 6.0% rising
118 South Korea 0.994 GPI 2018 down 0.6% rising
119 United States 0.9912 GPI 2018 down 0.7% rising
120 Latvia 0.9894 GPI 2018 down 3.6% falling
121 Egypt 0.9892 GPI 2019 down 0.2% rising
122 El Salvador 0.9875 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
123 Italy 0.9868 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
124 Moldova 0.9865 GPI 2019 down 3.6% falling
125 Hong Kong 0.9851 GPI 2019 down 2.1% rising
126 Belarus 0.9844 GPI 2018 up 0.3% falling
127 Ukraine 0.9835 GPI 2014 down 0.8% falling
128 Portugal 0.9834 GPI 2018 down 7.1% rising
129 Saint Lucia 0.9801 GPI 2019 down 4.9% falling
130 North Macedonia 0.9793 GPI 2018 up 3.0% flat
131 Bolivia 0.9777 GPI 2018 down 0.4% rising
132 Cyprus 0.9766 GPI 2018 down 3.5% flat
133 Poland 0.9761 GPI 2018 down 2.1% falling
134 Turkey 0.9737 GPI 2018 up 10.4% rising
135 Lithuania 0.9731 GPI 2018 down 2.9% falling
136 Thailand 0.9709 GPI 2019 down 9.9% rising
137 Russia 0.9708 GPI 2018 down 1.1% flat
138 Austria 0.9684 GPI 2018 up 1.0% rising
139 Antigua and Barbuda 0.9674 GPI 2018 down 2.2% rising
140 Bulgaria 0.9667 GPI 2018 down 0.5% flat
141 Iran 0.9636 GPI 2017 down 3.6% rising
142 Guatemala 0.962 GPI 2019 up 1.2% rising
143 Sierra Leone 0.9607 GPI 2017 up 27.8% rising
144 San Marino 0.9605 GPI 2019 down 8.6% flat
145 Norway 0.9592 GPI 2018 down 1.6% falling
146 Gambia 0.9586 GPI 2010 up 52.0% rising
147 Ethiopia 0.9566 GPI 2015 up 61.0% rising
148 Switzerland 0.9557 GPI 2018 up 0.3% rising
149 Gibraltar 0.9516 GPI 2019 down 2.5% falling
150 Zimbabwe 0.951 GPI 2013 up 9.3% rising
151 Germany 0.95 GPI 2018 down 2.5% flat
152 Greece 0.9496 GPI 2018 up 1.0% rising
153 Australia 0.9406 GPI 2018 — falling
154 United Arab Emirates 0.9399 GPI 2017 — rising
155 Solomon Islands 0.9387 GPI 2012 up 18.3% rising
156 Peru 0.9368 GPI 2019 down 8.7% falling
157 Laos 0.9327 GPI 2019 up 16.5% rising
158 Morocco 0.9266 GPI 2019 up 8.1% rising
159 United States Virgin Islands 0.9204 GPI 1997 down 6.2% flat
160 Saudi Arabia 0.9133 GPI 2019 up 3.3% rising
161 Maldives 0.91 GPI 2019 down 21.0% rising
162 Qatar 0.9089 GPI 2010 down 15.3% falling
163 Oman 0.9065 GPI 2019 down 4.7% rising
164 Nigeria 0.9023 GPI 2016 up 10.6% rising
165 Tajikistan 0.9014 GPI 2013 up 8.6% rising
166 Eritrea 0.8918 GPI 2018 up 23.2% rising
167 Kenya 0.8898 GPI 2009 down 5.4% rising
168 Mozambique 0.8854 GPI 2017 up 24.5% rising
169 Gabon 0.8792 GPI 1999 down 0.3% rising
170 Pakistan 0.8703 GPI 2019 up 9.3% rising
171 Congo 0.8663 GPI 2012 up 17.5% rising
172 Cameroon 0.8485 GPI 2016 up 7.2% rising
173 Cambodia 0.8393 GPI 2008 up 60.6% rising
174 Liechtenstein 0.8369 GPI 2018 down 5.0% falling
175 Mali 0.8127 GPI 2018 up 26.6% rising
176 Malawi 0.8081 GPI 2019 down 3.4% rising
177 Cote d'Ivoire 0.7907 GPI 2019 up 15.2% rising
178 Uganda 0.7785 GPI 2007 up 22.3% rising
179 Liberia 0.7547 GPI 2015 up 3.2% rising
180 Equatorial Guinea 0.7521 GPI 2005 up 41.6% rising
181 Benin 0.7502 GPI 2016 up 62.4% rising
182 Iraq 0.7419 GPI 2007 up 16.3% rising
183 Niger 0.7386 GPI 2017 up 20.0% rising
184 Yemen 0.7227 GPI 2016 up 48.1% rising
185 Togo 0.7154 GPI 2017 up 35.3% rising
186 Papua New Guinea 0.7154 GPI 2016 — rising
187 Central African Republic 0.6631 GPI 2017 up 18.6% rising
188 Guinea 0.6439 GPI 2014 up 50.7% rising
189 Angola 0.6433 GPI 2016 down 14.8% flat
190 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.6395 GPI 2015 up 19.7% rising
191 Zambia 0.5978 GPI 1988 up 11.6% rising
192 Afghanistan 0.5683 GPI 2018 up 33.6% rising
193 Guinea-Bissau 0.5328 GPI 2000 up 15.2% rising
194 Chad 0.5262 GPI 2019 up 27.5% rising
195 Somalia 0.4608 GPI 2007 — rising

About this data

Indicator
School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
195 places, 5,786 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.