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Out-of-school rate for children and adolescents of primary and lower 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
148
Highest
1.99 GPIA
Argentina
Lowest
0.0099 GPIA
Ireland
Median
0.9584 GPIA
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
4,346

What the numbers show

Out-of-school rate for children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 148 countries. The highest value is 1.99 GPIA in Argentina; the lowest is 0.0099 GPIA in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9584 GPIA, and the mean is 0.9283 GPIA.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 202.

Over the past decade 57 countries rose and 80 fell. The largest increase was in Argentina (up 1,093.6%), and the largest decrease in Georgia (down 96.4%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Argentina 1.99 GPIA 2017 up 1,093.6% volatile
2 Uzbekistan 1.98 GPIA 2019 up 85.0% rising
3 Sri Lanka 1.9 GPIA 2018 up 75.5% rising
4 Portugal 1.86 GPIA 2018 up 26.8% rising
5 Tajikistan 1.75 GPIA 2011 up 12.6% rising
6 Norway 1.75 GPIA 2017 up 134.3% rising
7 Tunisia 1.74 GPIA 1985 up 5.2% rising
8 Liechtenstein 1.74 GPIA 2018 up 20.3% rising
9 United Arab Emirates 1.71 GPIA 2017 — rising
10 Cyprus 1.68 GPIA 2018 down 6.2% falling
11 Iraq 1.67 GPIA 2007 up 11.0% falling
12 Luxembourg 1.6 GPIA 2018 up 194.4% rising
13 Switzerland 1.59 GPIA 2018 up 109.3% falling
14 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.57 GPIA 2017 up 18.0% rising
15 Kyrgyzstan 1.51 GPIA 2019 up 45.9% rising
16 Maldives 1.5 GPIA 2019 — rising
17 Togo 1.49 GPIA 2017 down 5.0% falling
18 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.44 GPIA 2018 up 43.8% rising
19 Yemen 1.44 GPIA 2016 down 6.9% falling
20 Cameroon 1.39 GPIA 2016 — rising
21 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.38 GPIA 2017 up 56.0% rising
22 Guinea 1.36 GPIA 2014 up 3.8% rising
23 Chad 1.35 GPIA 2019 — flat
24 Belarus 1.35 GPIA 2018 up 297.5% volatile
25 Central African Republic 1.34 GPIA 2012 — falling
26 Côte d'Ivoire 1.3 GPIA 2019 up 1.8% flat
27 Mozambique 1.3 GPIA 2015 down 0.9% rising
28 Chile 1.29 GPIA 2018 up 0.3% flat
29 Paraguay 1.27 GPIA 2012 up 23.7% flat
30 Peru 1.26 GPIA 2016 up 145.2% falling
31 Grenada 1.23 GPIA 2005 — rising
32 Morocco 1.19 GPIA 2019 down 10.0% falling
33 Niger 1.19 GPIA 2017 up 1.5% rising
34 Ethiopia 1.19 GPIA 2015 down 4.5% falling
35 Kenya 1.17 GPIA 2009 up 24.1% rising
36 Zimbabwe 1.17 GPIA 2013 up 9.5% flat
37 Türkiye 1.14 GPIA 2018 down 38.2% falling
38 Mali 1.14 GPIA 2018 down 12.4% rising
39 Republic of Moldova 1.13 GPIA 2019 up 4.2% rising
40 Eritrea 1.13 GPIA 2018 down 17.5% rising
41 Australia 1.12 GPIA 2018 up 198.7% flat
42 Indonesia 1.12 GPIA 2018 up 1.3% falling
43 Cape Verde 1.11 GPIA 2018 up 5.4% rising
44 Poland 1.1 GPIA 2018 up 12.8% flat
45 Myanmar 1.09 GPIA 2018 up 41.6% flat
46 Macau, China 1.09 GPIA 2019 up 8.1% falling
47 Italy 1.09 GPIA 2018 down 27.4% falling
48 Serbia 1.09 GPIA 2019 down 10.5% falling
49 Greece 1.08 GPIA 2018 down 24.1% rising
50 Eswatini 1.08 GPIA 2015 down 4.8% rising
51 Seychelles 1.07 GPIA 2005 up 46.0% flat
52 Guatemala 1.07 GPIA 2018 down 15.3% flat
53 Qatar 1.07 GPIA 2019 down 19.4% falling
54 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.06 GPIA 2019 down 19.8% falling
55 Dominica 1.06 GPIA 2019 up 79.8% rising
56 Syrian Arab Republic 1.05 GPIA 2013 down 20.4% falling
57 British Virgin Islands 1.05 GPIA 2018 down 29.6% rising
58 Cuba 1.05 GPIA 2019 down 2.6% falling
59 Jordan 1.04 GPIA 2019 up 18.5% rising
60 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.04 GPIA 2018 up 301.5% falling
61 Vanuatu 1.04 GPIA 2015 down 31.6% flat
62 Hungary 1.03 GPIA 2018 down 8.6% falling
63 Romania 1.03 GPIA 2018 down 3.3% rising
64 Bulgaria 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 14.2% falling
65 Republic of Korea 1.02 GPIA 2018 up 24.7% falling
66 Cayman Islands 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 14.4% falling
67 Belize 1.02 GPIA 2019 down 5.0% rising
68 Thailand 1.01 GPIA 2009 — falling
69 Barbados 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 15.5% falling
70 Slovakia 1 GPIA 2018 down 2.1% flat
71 Panama 1 GPIA 2017 down 9.6% flat
72 El Salvador 0.9763 GPIA 2018 — falling
73 Burkina Faso 0.9728 GPIA 2019 down 15.1% falling
74 Jamaica 0.9662 GPIA 2019 up 15.7% rising
75 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9507 GPIA 2015 down 32.0% falling
76 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.9498 GPIA 2017 up 34.2% rising
77 Djibouti 0.9476 GPIA 2015 down 16.2% flat
78 Bahamas 0.9377 GPIA 2018 down 9.1% flat
79 Armenia 0.9018 GPIA 2019 down 10.3% falling
80 Dominican Republic 0.9011 GPIA 2019 down 48.9% rising
81 Montenegro 0.8922 GPIA 2019 — rising
82 Honduras 0.8912 GPIA 2019 down 3.5% flat
83 France 0.8767 GPIA 2018 up 0.6% falling
84 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.8633 GPIA 2016 down 28.7% flat
85 South Africa 0.8571 GPIA 2018 up 19.6% falling
86 Cambodia 0.8509 GPIA 2015 down 19.5% falling
87 Mauritania 0.841 GPIA 2019 down 13.0% falling
88 Oman 0.8407 GPIA 2019 up 21.5% falling
89 Iceland 0.8289 GPIA 2018 up 33.2% falling
90 Puerto Rico 0.8283 GPIA 2018 up 17.4% rising
91 Finland 0.8238 GPIA 2018 down 21.4% falling
92 Canada 0.8135 GPIA 2018 up 160.2% volatile
93 Ukraine 0.7881 GPIA 2014 down 20.2% rising
94 Burundi 0.7826 GPIA 2019 down 29.2% falling
95 Spain 0.7746 GPIA 2018 up 59.6% falling
96 Colombia 0.7727 GPIA 2018 up 12.6% rising
97 United States of America 0.7724 GPIA 2018 up 12.1% falling
98 Belgium 0.7661 GPIA 2018 down 29.1% rising
99 Denmark 0.7642 GPIA 2018 up 20.7% rising
100 Azerbaijan 0.7429 GPIA 2019 down 35.4% falling
101 Malaysia 0.7327 GPIA 2017 down 1.6% falling
102 Philippines 0.7309 GPIA 2018 up 0.9% falling
103 Russian Federation 0.7242 GPIA 2018 up 22.3% rising
104 Malawi 0.7186 GPIA 2019 down 15.2% falling
105 Czechia 0.7092 GPIA 2018 down 41.3% falling
106 Kazakhstan 0.6977 GPIA 2011 down 55.7% falling
107 Botswana 0.6933 GPIA 2003 up 44.5% falling
108 Costa Rica 0.6904 GPIA 2019 down 34.4% falling
109 Mongolia 0.6853 GPIA 2008 up 6.2% falling
110 Lesotho 0.6715 GPIA 2016 up 4.7% rising
111 Nicaragua 0.6617 GPIA 2010 down 17.6% falling
112 Saint Lucia 0.6548 GPIA 2019 down 35.1% falling
113 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.6482 GPIA 2018 down 14.3% rising
114 Suriname 0.645 GPIA 2015 down 21.8% rising
115 Estonia 0.6331 GPIA 2018 down 39.4% rising
116 Mexico 0.5944 GPIA 2018 down 34.6% falling
117 Ghana 0.5887 GPIA 2019 down 41.2% falling
118 Germany 0.5884 GPIA 2018 down 45.2% falling
119 Timor-Leste 0.5805 GPIA 2019 down 50.5% falling
120 Bahrain 0.5687 GPIA 2019 down 30.8% volatile
121 New Zealand 0.5555 GPIA 2018 down 22.9% falling
122 Bhutan 0.5524 GPIA 2018 down 39.7% falling
123 Israel 0.5475 GPIA 2015 down 71.4% volatile
124 Namibia 0.5153 GPIA 2007 down 29.8% falling
125 Tonga 0.4959 GPIA 2015 down 52.9% falling
126 Palestine, State of 0.4823 GPIA 2019 down 44.9% falling
127 Latvia 0.4707 GPIA 2018 down 58.6% falling
128 Antigua and Barbuda 0.456 GPIA 2018 up 46.0% volatile
129 Netherlands 0.4425 GPIA 2018 down 60.4% rising
130 Aruba 0.4305 GPIA 2009 up 3.1% rising
131 Slovenia 0.4251 GPIA 2018 down 61.2% falling
132 Mauritius 0.3619 GPIA 2019 down 41.9% falling
133 Ecuador 0.2903 GPIA 2018 down 67.7% falling
134 Kuwait 0.2886 GPIA 2015 up 257.3% falling
135 Austria 0.266 GPIA 2018 down 75.0% rising
136 Samoa 0.254 GPIA 2015 down 58.6% volatile
137 Egypt 0.2501 GPIA 2019 down 79.4% volatile
138 Hong Kong, China 0.2082 GPIA 2016 — falling
139 Croatia 0.1868 GPIA 2013 down 84.0% volatile
140 Lithuania 0.1721 GPIA 2013 down 91.3% volatile
141 Brunei Darussalam 0.1489 GPIA 2018 down 91.9% volatile
142 Fiji 0.1349 GPIA 2009 down 73.3% volatile
143 Albania 0.1308 GPIA 2019 down 82.4% volatile
144 Uruguay 0.1295 GPIA 2016 down 86.5% volatile
145 Malta 0.1277 GPIA 2016 — volatile
146 Sweden 0.0383 GPIA 2015 down 96.2% falling
147 Georgia 0.0218 GPIA 2019 down 96.4% volatile
148 Ireland 0.0099 GPIA 2018 down 94.6% 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 and adolescents of primary and lower 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
191 places, 4,346 data points, 1970–2019
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/