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Out-of-school rate for children, adolescents and youth of primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school age, 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
136
Highest
1.93 GPIA
Portugal
Lowest
0.0714 GPIA
Israel
Median
0.9298 GPIA
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
4,061

What the numbers show

Out-of-school rate for children, adolescents and youth of primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school age, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 136 countries. The highest value is 1.93 GPIA in Portugal; the lowest is 0.0714 GPIA in Israel.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9298 GPIA, and the mean is 0.9107 GPIA.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 27.

Over the past decade 47 countries rose and 85 fell. The largest increase was in Saint Kitts and Nevis (up 695.2%), and the largest decrease in Netherlands (down 62.6%).

Out-of-school rate for children, adolescents and youth of primary: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Portugal 1.93 GPIA 2018 up 150.9% rising
2 Liechtenstein 1.62 GPIA 2018 down 4.4% rising
3 Peru 1.58 GPIA 2018 up 149.4% falling
4 Tajikistan 1.52 GPIA 2011 up 2.8% rising
5 Iraq 1.5 GPIA 2007 up 8.4% rising
6 Sweden 1.4 GPIA 2015 up 33.9% rising
7 Yemen 1.39 GPIA 2016 down 2.9% falling
8 Cyprus 1.35 GPIA 2018 up 175.4% rising
9 Uzbekistan 1.33 GPIA 2019 up 23.4% rising
10 Cameroon 1.31 GPIA 2015 — flat
11 Guinea 1.31 GPIA 2014 up 1.9% flat
12 Chad 1.3 GPIA 2019 — flat
13 Côte d'Ivoire 1.26 GPIA 2019 up 1.0% flat
14 Oman 1.25 GPIA 2018 down 12.6% flat
15 Mozambique 1.23 GPIA 2015 down 3.5% rising
16 Kenya 1.23 GPIA 2009 up 19.4% rising
17 Greece 1.22 GPIA 2018 up 0.1% rising
18 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.2 GPIA 2017 down 2.1% flat
19 Cambodia 1.19 GPIA 2008 down 2.6% flat
20 Switzerland 1.19 GPIA 2018 down 1.6% falling
21 Chile 1.16 GPIA 2018 up 14.1% rising
22 Morocco 1.16 GPIA 2019 down 8.2% falling
23 Finland 1.15 GPIA 2018 up 16.7% rising
24 Niger 1.15 GPIA 2017 up 0.8% flat
25 Ethiopia 1.14 GPIA 2015 down 7.1% falling
26 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.13 GPIA 2013 up 695.2% volatile
27 Eritrea 1.13 GPIA 2018 down 12.8% rising
28 Zimbabwe 1.12 GPIA 2013 up 0.5% flat
29 Mali 1.12 GPIA 2018 down 9.9% falling
30 Bulgaria 1.11 GPIA 2018 down 1.9% flat
31 Eswatini 1.1 GPIA 2015 down 10.3% rising
32 Paraguay 1.1 GPIA 2012 up 7.0% flat
33 Korea 1.1 GPIA 2018 up 72.5% rising
34 Vanuatu 1.09 GPIA 2015 down 8.0% flat
35 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.08 GPIA 2019 down 15.8% falling
36 Qatar 1.08 GPIA 2010 up 65.8% flat
37 Türkiye 1.08 GPIA 2018 down 23.5% falling
38 Republic of Moldova 1.07 GPIA 2019 up 12.2% rising
39 Guatemala 1.07 GPIA 2018 down 6.3% falling
40 Canada 1.06 GPIA 2018 up 15.6% rising
41 Indonesia 1.06 GPIA 2018 down 1.0% flat
42 Poland 1.05 GPIA 2018 up 16.5% rising
43 Grenada 1.05 GPIA 2005 — falling
44 Kyrgyzstan 1.04 GPIA 2019 up 14.5% rising
45 Syrian Arab Republic 1.03 GPIA 2013 down 9.3% falling
46 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.02 GPIA 2017 up 18.5% flat
47 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.02 GPIA 2018 up 0.5% falling
48 El Salvador 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 9.2% falling
49 Cayman Islands 1.01 GPIA 2018 down 3.0% falling
50 Jordan 1 GPIA 2019 up 13.1% rising
51 Belarus 1 GPIA 2018 down 10.9% falling
52 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.9943 GPIA 2018 up 34.0% falling
53 Slovakia 0.9881 GPIA 2018 up 3.5% rising
54 Norway 0.9873 GPIA 2018 up 16.4% rising
55 Malawi 0.9869 GPIA 2019 down 3.9% falling
56 Hungary 0.9826 GPIA 2018 down 7.0% flat
57 Djibouti 0.9752 GPIA 2015 down 13.2% falling
58 Burkina Faso 0.9747 GPIA 2019 down 13.0% falling
59 Belize 0.9696 GPIA 2019 down 1.0% flat
60 Italy 0.9678 GPIA 2018 down 1.2% falling
61 Myanmar 0.9574 GPIA 2018 up 13.2% falling
62 British Virgin Islands 0.9551 GPIA 2018 down 4.5% falling
63 Dominica 0.9539 GPIA 2019 up 45.7% rising
64 Cape Verde 0.9535 GPIA 2018 up 15.0% rising
65 Panama 0.9521 GPIA 2017 up 0.5% flat
66 Jamaica 0.9433 GPIA 2019 up 15.5% falling
67 Luxembourg 0.9409 GPIA 2018 up 18.6% rising
68 Germany 0.9377 GPIA 2018 down 12.4% falling
69 Belgium 0.9218 GPIA 2018 up 3.1% rising
70 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9201 GPIA 2015 down 15.2% falling
71 Bahamas 0.9196 GPIA 2018 down 11.7% falling
72 Dominican Republic 0.9174 GPIA 2019 down 25.5% rising
73 Honduras 0.903 GPIA 2019 down 0.8% flat
74 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.8953 GPIA 2018 up 16.5% rising
75 Czechia 0.8936 GPIA 2018 down 4.3% falling
76 Egypt 0.8793 GPIA 2019 down 8.5% falling
77 United States of America 0.8775 GPIA 2018 down 1.5% flat
78 South Africa 0.8763 GPIA 2018 up 1.5% falling
79 Austria 0.8755 GPIA 2018 down 23.0% falling
80 Mauritania 0.8748 GPIA 2019 down 11.7% falling
81 Serbia 0.8627 GPIA 2019 up 4.0% flat
82 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.8616 GPIA 2017 up 12.5% flat
83 Burundi 0.8583 GPIA 2019 down 22.3% falling
84 Ghana 0.8531 GPIA 2019 down 22.4% falling
85 Colombia 0.8467 GPIA 2018 up 4.3% rising
86 Saint Lucia 0.8462 GPIA 2019 up 2.8% falling
87 Cuba 0.8357 GPIA 2019 down 15.1% flat
88 Australia 0.8285 GPIA 2018 — falling
89 Denmark 0.8227 GPIA 2018 up 2.2% flat
90 Puerto Rico 0.8058 GPIA 2018 down 2.6% flat
91 Mexico 0.7987 GPIA 2018 down 16.9% falling
92 France 0.7817 GPIA 2018 down 7.5% falling
93 Namibia 0.7736 GPIA 2007 down 4.1% flat
94 Botswana 0.7686 GPIA 2003 down 2.9% falling
95 Nicaragua 0.7673 GPIA 2010 down 5.9% falling
96 Malaysia 0.7648 GPIA 2017 down 1.7% flat
97 Iceland 0.7625 GPIA 2018 down 3.8% falling
98 Macau, China 0.7624 GPIA 2019 down 25.9% falling
99 Estonia 0.7623 GPIA 2018 up 50.6% rising
100 Azerbaijan 0.7623 GPIA 2019 down 42.4% falling
101 Ukraine 0.744 GPIA 2014 down 3.4% flat
102 Antigua and Barbuda 0.7376 GPIA 2018 down 14.7% falling
103 Barbados 0.7264 GPIA 2019 down 16.8% falling
104 Spain 0.7187 GPIA 2018 up 13.6% falling
105 Suriname 0.7155 GPIA 2015 down 14.7% falling
106 Brunei Darussalam 0.7118 GPIA 2019 down 27.6% falling
107 Ecuador 0.7112 GPIA 2018 down 25.5% falling
108 Lesotho 0.7072 GPIA 2016 down 3.6% rising
109 Timor-Leste 0.7015 GPIA 2019 down 37.2% falling
110 Malta 0.6869 GPIA 2018 down 13.4% falling
111 Costa Rica 0.6848 GPIA 2019 down 24.1% falling
112 Tonga 0.6803 GPIA 2015 down 16.1% falling
113 Philippines 0.6493 GPIA 2015 down 7.8% falling
114 Mauritius 0.6197 GPIA 2019 down 36.5% falling
115 Latvia 0.6049 GPIA 2018 down 27.0% falling
116 Kuwait 0.5944 GPIA 2015 down 20.7% falling
117 Bhutan 0.5933 GPIA 2018 down 36.8% falling
118 Croatia 0.5548 GPIA 2018 down 10.2% falling
119 Palestine, State of 0.5432 GPIA 2019 down 30.1% falling
120 Fiji 0.5346 GPIA 2012 down 20.1% falling
121 Slovenia 0.5327 GPIA 2018 down 32.8% falling
122 Argentina 0.5262 GPIA 2017 up 10.6% falling
123 Aruba 0.5257 GPIA 2009 down 7.0% rising
124 Uruguay 0.5165 GPIA 2017 down 36.7% falling
125 Albania 0.5121 GPIA 2019 down 40.6% falling
126 Mongolia 0.5013 GPIA 2006 down 24.5% falling
127 Hong Kong, China 0.4504 GPIA 2017 down 47.6% falling
128 Bahrain 0.4211 GPIA 2019 down 55.6% volatile
129 Lithuania 0.4022 GPIA 2018 up 189.9% falling
130 Netherlands 0.388 GPIA 2018 down 62.6% falling
131 Georgia 0.3805 GPIA 2019 down 14.2% falling
132 Seychelles 0.3637 GPIA 2019 down 55.2% falling
133 New Zealand 0.347 GPIA 2018 down 46.0% falling
134 Ireland 0.2874 GPIA 2018 down 30.8% volatile
135 Samoa 0.2589 GPIA 2016 down 47.8% falling
136 Israel 0.0714 GPIA 2015 down 52.7% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

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Indicator
Out-of-school rate for children, adolescents and youth of primary, lower secondary and upper secondary school age, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
179 places, 4,061 data points, 1970–2019
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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/