Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan: Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index was 0.9589 GPI in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
0.9589 GPI
Change on year
up 0.2%
Rank
36th
of 45 groups
All-time high
0.9589 GPI
in 2019
All-time low
0.8364 GPI
in 1994
Years of data
27
1993–2019

Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, 1993–2019

00.20.40.60.811993200620191993: 0.842 GPI1994: 0.836 GPI1995: 0.842 GPI1996: 0.855 GPI1997: 0.864 GPI1998: 0.87 GPI1999: 0.876 GPI2000: 0.878 GPI2001: 0.886 GPI2002: 0.896 GPI2003: 0.906 GPI2004: 0.905 GPI2005: 0.911 GPI2006: 0.918 GPI2007: 0.918 GPI2008: 0.923 GPI2009: 0.934 GPI2010: 0.944 GPI2011: 0.954 GPI2012: 0.959 GPI2013: 0.954 GPI2014: 0.949 GPI2015: 0.952 GPI2016: 0.956 GPI2017: 0.957 GPI2018: 0.957 GPI2019: 0.959 GPI

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPI.

Analysis

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan recorded 0.9589 GPI for total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 27 years on record.

That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 2.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan peaked at 0.9589 GPI in 2019 and was at its lowest, 0.8364 GPI, in 1994.

That places Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 36th out of 45 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.

Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, year by year

Annual values for Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI) in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan, 1993 to 2019.
Year GPI Change
1993 0.8422 GPI
1994 0.8364 GPI -0.7%
1995 0.8423 GPI +0.7%
1996 0.8552 GPI +1.5%
1997 0.8636 GPI +1.0%
1998 0.8696 GPI +0.7%
1999 0.8755 GPI +0.7%
2000 0.878 GPI +0.3%
2001 0.8859 GPI +0.9%
2002 0.896 GPI +1.1%
2003 0.9056 GPI +1.1%
2004 0.9052 GPI -0.0%
2005 0.9105 GPI +0.6%
2006 0.9182 GPI +0.8%
2007 0.918 GPI -0.0%
2008 0.9231 GPI +0.6%
2009 0.934 GPI +1.2%
2010 0.9438 GPI +1.1%
2011 0.9536 GPI +1.0%
2012 0.9586 GPI +0.5%
2013 0.9538 GPI -0.5%
2014 0.9495 GPI -0.5%
2015 0.9515 GPI +0.2%
2016 0.9558 GPI +0.4%
2017 0.957 GPI +0.1%
2018 0.9569 GPI -0.0%
2019 0.9589 GPI +0.2%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 0.855 GPI 0.8364 GPI 0.8755 GPI 7
2000s 0.9075 GPI 0.878 GPI 0.934 GPI 10
2010s 0.9539 GPI 0.9438 GPI 0.9589 GPI 10

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Frequently asked questions

What is total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan?
Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan was 0.9589 GPI in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index recorded in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan?
The highest recorded value was 0.9589 GPI in 2019.
What is the lowest total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index recorded in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan?
The lowest recorded value was 0.8364 GPI in 1994.
How does Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan rank for total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index?
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan ranks 36th out of 45 groups with data for 2019.
Is total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index rising or falling in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan?
Over the last ten years it is up 2.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
180 places, 3,032 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed

Ratio of female total net enrolment rate for lower secondary to the male total net enrolment rate for lower secondary. 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.