Gross enrolment ratio, early childhood educational development programmes, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

The Adjusted Gender Parity Index (GPIA) is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. If the resulting value exceeds 1, the ratio is inverted and subtracted from 2. The adjusted gender parity index is symmetrical around 1 and lies in the range 0-2. An adjusted GPI...

Countries reporting
169
Highest
1.18 GPIA
Indonesia
Lowest
0 GPIA
Zimbabwe
Median
0 GPIA
Years covered
24
1997–2020
Data points
2,956

What the numbers show

Gross enrolment ratio, early childhood educational development programmes, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 169 countries. The highest value is 1.18 GPIA in Indonesia; the lowest is 0 GPIA in Zimbabwe.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 GPIA, and the mean is 0.3814 GPIA.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 15 fell. The largest increase was in British Virgin Islands (up 9.9%), and the largest decrease in Mongolia (down 100.0%).

Gross enrolment ratio, early childhood educational development program: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Indonesia 1.18 GPIA 2018 up 3.8% rising
2 Cambodia 1.13 GPIA 2012 volatile
3 Namibia 1.11 GPIA 2018 volatile
4 Equatorial Guinea 1.07 GPIA 2015 volatile
5 Saint Lucia 1.06 GPIA 2019 volatile
6 Puerto Rico 1.06 GPIA 2013 volatile
7 Rwanda 1.05 GPIA 2019 volatile
8 Kazakhstan 1.03 GPIA 2019 volatile
9 Panama 1.03 GPIA 2017 volatile
10 North Macedonia 1.03 GPIA 2018 volatile
11 El Salvador 1.02 GPIA 2018 volatile
12 Peru 1.02 GPIA 2019 volatile
13 Ghana 1.02 GPIA 2019 down 0.2% flat
14 Latvia 1.02 GPIA 2018 up 1.7% flat
15 Dominica 1.02 GPIA 2019 volatile
16 Thailand 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 3.4% flat
17 Serbia 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 0.6% flat
19 Mauritius 1.01 GPIA 2019 volatile
20 Austria 1 GPIA 2018 up 0.6% flat
21 Antigua and Barbuda 1 GPIA 2018 up 3.5% falling
22 Finland 1 GPIA 2018 volatile
23 Moldova 1 GPIA 2019 volatile
24 Estonia 1 GPIA 2018 volatile
25 Norway 0.9984 GPIA 2018 volatile
26 Germany 0.9978 GPIA 2018 down 0.8% flat
27 Slovenia 0.9976 GPIA 2018 down 0.8% flat
28 Lithuania 0.996 GPIA 2018 down 1.1% flat
29 Cayman Islands 0.9956 GPIA 2018 down 6.4% flat
30 Croatia 0.9934 GPIA 2018 volatile
31 Morocco 0.9931 GPIA 2019 volatile
32 Uruguay 0.9922 GPIA 2018 volatile
33 South Korea 0.9919 GPIA 2018 volatile
34 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.9917 GPIA 2016 down 3.7% falling
35 Vietnam 0.9903 GPIA 2019 volatile
36 Grenada 0.9893 GPIA 2017 volatile
37 Hungary 0.9864 GPIA 2018 volatile
38 Belarus 0.9851 GPIA 2018 up 1.0% flat
39 British Virgin Islands 0.9847 GPIA 2018 up 9.9% volatile
40 Sweden 0.9836 GPIA 2018 down 1.5% flat
41 San Marino 0.9801 GPIA 2019 volatile
42 Guatemala 0.9796 GPIA 2019 volatile
43 Laos 0.9794 GPIA 2019 up 0.4% flat
44 Chile 0.9789 GPIA 2018 volatile
45 Spain 0.9777 GPIA 2018 volatile
46 Russia 0.9767 GPIA 2018 up 4.4% flat
47 Montenegro 0.9766 GPIA 2019 up 2.1% falling
48 Denmark 0.9765 GPIA 2018 volatile
49 Israel 0.9738 GPIA 2018 volatile
50 Australia 0.9737 GPIA 2018 volatile
51 Kyrgyzstan 0.9728 GPIA 2019 volatile
52 Mexico 0.9707 GPIA 2018 volatile
53 Argentina 0.9682 GPIA 2017 down 1.3% flat
54 Cuba 0.9669 GPIA 2019 down 14.5% flat
55 Venezuela 0.9663 GPIA 2017 down 3.6% falling
56 Jamaica 0.9529 GPIA 2019 volatile
57 Iceland 0.9501 GPIA 2018 volatile
58 Azerbaijan 0.9492 GPIA 2019 up 2.1% rising
59 Sao Tome and Principe 0.947 GPIA 2016 down 13.4% volatile
60 Romania 0.9424 GPIA 2018 volatile
61 United Arab Emirates 0.9361 GPIA 2016 volatile
62 Cyprus 0.9343 GPIA 2018 volatile
63 Bahrain 0.9314 GPIA 2019 down 26.5% rising
64 Costa Rica 0.899 GPIA 2019 down 11.3% flat
65 Qatar 0.8622 GPIA 2019 volatile
66 Turkey 0.7649 GPIA 2018 falling
67 Aruba 0 GPIA 2014 flat
67 Afghanistan 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Albania 0 GPIA 2012 flat
67 Andorra 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Armenia 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Burundi 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Benin 0 GPIA 2019 volatile
67 Burkina Faso 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Bangladesh 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Bulgaria 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Bahamas 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Belize 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Bermuda 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Bolivia 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Barbados 0 GPIA 2011 flat
67 Brunei 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Bhutan 0 GPIA 2020 flat
67 Botswana 0 GPIA 2015 flat
67 Central African Republic 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Switzerland 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 China 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Cote d'Ivoire 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Cameroon 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Congo 0 GPIA 2012 flat
67 Colombia 0 GPIA 2007 flat
67 Cape Verde 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Czechia 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Djibouti 0 GPIA 2020 flat
67 Dominican Republic 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Algeria 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Ecuador 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Egypt 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Eritrea 0 GPIA 2018 volatile
67 Ethiopia 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Fiji 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 France 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Georgia 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Guinea 0 GPIA 2012 flat
67 Greece 0 GPIA 2012 flat
67 Guyana 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Hong Kong 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Honduras 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 India 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Iran 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Italy 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Jordan 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Japan 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Kenya 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Kuwait 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Lebanon 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Liberia 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Sri Lanka 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Lesotho 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Macao 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Monaco 0 GPIA 2020 flat
67 Madagascar 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Maldives 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Marshall Islands 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Mali 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Mongolia 0 GPIA 2018 down 100.0% volatile
67 Mozambique 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Malawi 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Malaysia 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Niger 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Netherlands 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Nepal 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Nauru 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Oman 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Pakistan 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Philippines 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Palau 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Papua New Guinea 0 GPIA 2016 flat
67 Poland 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Portugal 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Palestine 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Saudi Arabia 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Sudan 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Senegal 0 GPIA 2019 volatile
67 Solomon Islands 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Sierra Leone 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Suriname 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Slovakia 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Eswatini 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Seychelles 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Syria 0 GPIA 2013 flat
67 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Chad 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Togo 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Tajikistan 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 East Timor 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Tonga 0 GPIA 2015 flat
67 Trinidad and Tobago 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Tunisia 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Tuvalu 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Tanzania 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Uganda 0 GPIA 2017 flat
67 Ukraine 0 GPIA 2012 flat
67 Uzbekistan 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 GPIA 2018 flat
67 Vanuatu 0 GPIA 2013 flat
67 Samoa 0 GPIA 2019 flat
67 Zambia 0 GPIA 2013 flat
67 Zimbabwe 0 GPIA 2013 flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Gross enrolment ratio, early childhood educational development programmes, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
207 places, 2,956 data points, 1997–2020
Last refreshed

The Adjusted Gender Parity Index (GPIA) is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. If the resulting value exceeds 1, the ratio is inverted and subtracted from 2. The adjusted gender parity index is symmetrical around 1 and lies in the range 0-2. An adjusted 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. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute for Statistics: http://uis.unesco.org/