Arab World - Ratio of young literate females to males

Literacy rate, youth (ages 15-24), gender parity index (GPI)

Literacy rate, youth (ages 15-24), gender parity index (GPI) in Arab World was 0.946 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 43 years was 0.949 in 2017, while its lowest value was 0.673 in 1977.

Definition: Gender parity index for youth literacy rate is the ratio of females to males ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1977 0.673
1978 0.680
1979 0.688
1980 0.697
1981 0.706
1982 0.715
1983 0.714
1984 0.727
1985 0.738
1986 0.748
1987 0.758
1988 0.768
1989 0.778
1990 0.788
1991 0.796
1992 0.806
1993 0.796
1994 0.807
1995 0.817
1996 0.828
1997 0.838
1998 0.848
1999 0.859
2000 0.869
2001 0.877
2002 0.887
2003 0.874
2004 0.883
2005 0.888
2006 0.903
2007 0.909
2008 0.914
2009 0.905
2010 0.910
2011 0.913
2012 0.925
2013 0.936
2014 0.941
2015 0.939
2016 0.944
2017 0.949
2018 0.943
2019 0.945
2020 0.946

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Outcomes