School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana

Ghana: School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index was 0.9959 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.9959 GPI
Change on year
up 1.4%
World rank
114th
of 195 countries
All-time high
0.9959 GPI
in 2019
All-time low
0.6205 GPI
in 1984
Years of data
39
1971–2019

School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana, 1971–2019

00.20.40.60.811971199520191971: 0.642 GPI1973: 0.675 GPI1974: 0.664 GPI1975: 0.666 GPI1976: 0.654 GPI1977: 0.645 GPI1978: 0.655 GPI1979: 0.647 GPI1980: 0.661 GPI1981: 0.642 GPI1982: 0.649 GPI1983: 0.626 GPI1984: 0.621 GPI1985: 0.626 GPI1987: 0.697 GPI1988: 0.666 GPI1989: 0.665 GPI1990: 0.663 GPI1995: 0.726 GPI1999: 0.794 GPI2000: 0.809 GPI2001: 0.832 GPI2002: 0.84 GPI2003: 0.845 GPI2004: 0.837 GPI2005: 0.831 GPI2006: 0.845 GPI2007: 0.874 GPI2008: 0.882 GPI2009: 0.878 GPI2011: 0.896 GPI2012: 0.896 GPI2013: 0.909 GPI2014: 0.936 GPI2015: 0.946 GPI2016: 0.965 GPI2017: 0.972 GPI2018: 0.983 GPI2019: 0.996 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

The most recent figure for school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana is 0.9959 GPI, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 39 years on record.

That represents a change of up 1.4% on the previous year and up 13.5% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana peaked at 0.9959 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.6205 GPI, in 1984.

Ghana ranks 114th of 195 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 39 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.656 GPI 0.6415 GPI 0.6754 GPI 8
1980s 0.6502 GPI 0.6205 GPI 0.697 GPI 9
1990s 0.7275 GPI 0.6625 GPI 0.7942 GPI 3
2000s 0.8474 GPI 0.8085 GPI 0.8823 GPI 10
2010s 0.9442 GPI 0.8957 GPI 0.9959 GPI 9

Countries ranked near Ghana

  1. 111 Hungary 0.9967 GPI compare
  2. 112 Azerbaijan 0.9964 GPI compare
  3. 113 China 0.9963 GPI compare
  4. 115 Iceland 0.9957 GPI compare
  5. 116 Uzbekistan 0.9948 GPI compare
  6. 117 Syria 0.9948 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana?
School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Ghana was 0.9959 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index recorded in Ghana?
The highest recorded value was 0.9959 GPI in 2019.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index recorded in Ghana?
The lowest recorded value was 0.6205 GPI in 1984.
How does Ghana rank for school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index?
Ghana ranks 114th out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index rising or falling in Ghana?
Over the last ten years it is up 13.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Ghana data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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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.