Children 0-14
Girls are still more vulnerable to gender-based infanticide, child marriage, and being denied an education. They also face more restrictions to their mobility and autonomy as they mature, but when given the opportunities, girls often outperform boys.
Non-communicable diseases
Communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions
Injury
Indicators
- Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary (% of primary school age children)
- Cause of death (%)
- Children in employment (% of children ages 7-14)
- Children out of school, primary (Number)
- Completeness of birth registration (%)
- Educational attainment by level of education, cumulative (% population 25+)
- Fraction of Children Under 5 Not Stunted
- Gross intake ratio in grade 1, total (% of relevant age group)
- Learning poverty: Share of Children at the End-of-Primary age below minimum reading proficiency adjusted by Out-of-School Children (%)
- Life expectancy at birth (years)
- Lower secondary completion rate (% of relevant age group)
- Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)
- Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
- Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)
- Number of infant deaths
- Number of under-five deaths
- Persistence to grade 5 (% of cohort)
- Population (age group as % of total population)
- Population (number)
- Prevalence of overweight, weight for height (% of children under 5)
- Prevalence of severe wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
- Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)
- Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)
- Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
- Primary completion rate (% of relevant age group)
- Primary completion rate, based on completers (%)
- Primary education, pupils (% female)
- Primary school age children out-of-school (%)
- Probability of Survival to Age 5
- Proportion who initiated sexual intercourse by or before age 15
- Pupils below minimum reading proficiency at end of primary (%). Low GAML threshold
- School enrollment, gender parity index
- School enrollment, preprimary (% gross)
- School enrollment, primary (%)
- Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births)
- Share of all students in lower secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%)
- Students in lower secondary vocational education, female (%)
- Women who experienced first sexual violence before age 15, 18, or 22 (% of women ages 15-49)
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