Education
Gender gaps in education have decreased significantly, especially in primary education, but gaps remain. Eliminating gender disparities in education and training would increase the capabilities of women - likely translating to more women in the labor force.
Global completion rates for primary and lower secondary education by sex
Adult literacy rate by sex and income group
% of population ages 15+
Gender Parity Index for primary and secondary school enrollment
Indicators
- Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary (% of primary school age children)
- Borrowed for education or school fees (% age 15+)
- Children out of school, primary (Number)
- Educational attainment by level of education, cumulative (% population 25+)
- Expected Years of School
- Expected years of schooling
- Gross graduation ratio, tertiary (%)
- Gross intake ratio in grade 1, total (% of relevant age group)
- Harmonized Test Scores
- Human Capital Index (HCI) (scale 0-1)
- Human Capital Index, Lower Bound (scale 0-1)
- Human Capital Index, Upper Bound (scale 0-1)
- Learning poverty: Share of Children at the End-of-Primary age below minimum reading proficiency adjusted by Out-of-School Children (%)
- Learning-Adjusted Years of School
- Literacy rate (%)
- Literacy rate, gender parity index (youth ages 15-24)
- Lower secondary completion rate (% of relevant age group)
- Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)
- Paid school fees in the past year (% age 15+)
- Persistence to grade 5 (% of cohort)
- Primary completion rate (% of relevant age group)
- Primary completion rate, based on completers (%)
- Primary education, pupils (% female)
- Primary education, teachers (% female)
- Primary school age children out-of-school (%)
- Progression to secondary school (%)
- Pupils below minimum reading proficiency at end of primary (%). Low GAML threshold
- Rate of out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age (%)
- School enrollment, gender parity index
- School enrollment, preprimary (% gross)
- School enrollment, primary (%)
- School enrollment, secondary (%)
- School enrollment, tertiary (% gross)
- Secondary education, pupils (% female)
- Secondary education, teachers (% female)
- Secondary education, vocational pupils
- Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)
- Share of all students in lower secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%)
- Share of all students in post-secondary non-tertiary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%)
- Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%)
- Share of graduates by field, female (%)
- Share of graduates in Business, Administration and Law programmes, female (%)
- Share of graduates in Information and Communication Technologies programmes, female (%)
- Share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programmes, female (%)
- Share of youth not in education, employment or training (% of youth population)
- Students in lower secondary vocational education, female (%)
- Students in post-secondary non-tertiary vocational education, female (%)
- Students in secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes, male (%)
- Students in upper secondary vocational education, female (%)
- Tertiary education, academic staff (% female)
- Vocational and technical enrolment (% of total secondary enrolment)
- Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years (number)
- Youth illiterate population, 15-24 years, female (%)
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