School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Malawi

Malawi: School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index was 0.8081 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.8081 GPI
Change on year
down 16.4%
World rank
176th
of 195 countries
All-time high
0.9671 GPI
in 2018
All-time low
0.4025 GPI
in 1978
Years of data
43
1972–2019

School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Malawi, 1972–2019

00.20.40.60.811972199520191972: 0.519 GPI1973: 0.418 GPI1975: 0.41 GPI1976: 0.408 GPI1977: 0.409 GPI1978: 0.402 GPI1979: 0.424 GPI1980: 0.452 GPI1981: 0.426 GPI1982: 0.444 GPI1983: 0.463 GPI1984: 0.472 GPI1985: 0.496 GPI1986: 0.514 GPI1987: 0.53 GPI1988: 0.559 GPI1989: 0.564 GPI1990: 0.582 GPI1991: 0.608 GPI1993: 0.6 GPI1994: 0.651 GPI1995: 0.672 GPI1996: 0.67 GPI1999: 0.677 GPI2000: 0.723 GPI2001: 0.745 GPI2002: 0.744 GPI2004: 0.777 GPI2005: 0.775 GPI2006: 0.8 GPI2007: 0.793 GPI2008: 0.807 GPI2009: 0.836 GPI2010: 0.869 GPI2011: 0.875 GPI2012: 0.863 GPI2013: 0.874 GPI2014: 0.885 GPI2015: 0.899 GPI2016: 0.876 GPI2017: 0.932 GPI2018: 0.967 GPI2019: 0.808 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Malawi recorded 0.8081 GPI for school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in 2019.

That represents a change of down 16.4% on the previous year and down 3.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Malawi peaked at 0.9671 GPI in 2018 and was at its lowest, 0.4025 GPI, in 1978.

Malawi ranks 176th of 195 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 43 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.4273 GPI 0.4025 GPI 0.5191 GPI 7
1980s 0.492 GPI 0.4258 GPI 0.5645 GPI 10
1990s 0.637 GPI 0.5818 GPI 0.677 GPI 7
2000s 0.7778 GPI 0.7233 GPI 0.8362 GPI 9
2010s 0.8848 GPI 0.8081 GPI 0.9671 GPI 10

Countries ranked near Malawi

  1. 173 Cambodia 0.8393 GPI compare
  2. 174 Liechtenstein 0.8369 GPI compare
  3. 175 Mali 0.8127 GPI compare
  4. 177 Cote d'Ivoire 0.7907 GPI compare
  5. 178 Uganda 0.7785 GPI compare
  6. 179 Liberia 0.7547 GPI compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Malawi?
School life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index in Malawi was 0.8081 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index recorded in Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 0.9671 GPI in 2018.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 0.4025 GPI in 1978.
How does Malawi rank for school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index?
Malawi ranks 176th out of 195 countries with data for 2019.
Is school life expectancy, secondary, gender parity index rising or falling in Malawi?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Malawi 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.