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Out-of-school rate for children of primary 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
165
Highest
1.95 GPIA
Portugal
Lowest
0.023 GPIA
Ireland
Median
0.9998 GPIA
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
5,055

What the numbers show

Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 165 countries. The highest value is 1.95 GPIA in Portugal; the lowest is 0.023 GPIA in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9998 GPIA, and the mean is 0.9776 GPIA.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 85.

Over the past decade 65 countries rose and 88 fell. The largest increase was in Fiji (up 5,046.8%), and the largest decrease in Ireland (down 97.3%).

Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, adjusted: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Portugal 1.95 GPIA 2017 — rising
2 Iraq 1.87 GPIA 2007 up 42.0% flat
3 Uzbekistan 1.87 GPIA 2014 up 61.2% rising
4 Malaysia 1.84 GPIA 2014 up 125.0% falling
5 Côte d'Ivoire 1.81 GPIA 2019 up 48.4% rising
6 Tonga 1.77 GPIA 1999 up 120.1% rising
7 Belarus 1.74 GPIA 2018 up 118.0% rising
8 Angola 1.71 GPIA 2011 up 53.4% rising
9 Mozambique 1.71 GPIA 2019 up 19.0% rising
10 Barbados 1.69 GPIA 2018 up 185.9% falling
11 Cameroon 1.69 GPIA 2019 down 0.3% rising
12 Benin 1.64 GPIA 2019 down 8.3% rising
13 Norway 1.62 GPIA 2014 up 110.6% rising
14 Saudi Arabia 1.59 GPIA 2016 up 34.5% flat
15 Cyprus 1.58 GPIA 2018 up 22.4% falling
16 Indonesia 1.58 GPIA 2018 up 15.4% falling
17 Guyana 1.53 GPIA 2010 up 32.7% rising
18 Fiji 1.52 GPIA 2015 up 5,046.8% falling
19 Yemen 1.51 GPIA 2016 down 6.8% flat
20 Sri Lanka 1.51 GPIA 2014 up 154.6% rising
21 Macau, China 1.51 GPIA 2019 up 62.8% flat
22 Chad 1.51 GPIA 2019 up 10.5% rising
23 Guinea 1.5 GPIA 2016 up 18.2% rising
24 Tajikistan 1.5 GPIA 2016 down 18.2% falling
25 Belize 1.45 GPIA 2013 up 88.2% flat
26 Bermuda 1.45 GPIA 2012 — rising
27 Nepal 1.44 GPIA 2004 up 2.8% falling
28 Togo 1.44 GPIA 2019 down 18.4% rising
29 Algeria 1.44 GPIA 2008 up 4.0% falling
30 Sweden 1.44 GPIA 2008 down 14.8% rising
31 Trinidad and Tobago 1.43 GPIA 2010 up 137.9% rising
32 Mongolia 1.42 GPIA 2015 up 68.6% rising
33 Chile 1.41 GPIA 2018 up 4.1% flat
34 Seychelles 1.4 GPIA 2002 up 29.0% rising
35 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.36 GPIA 2018 up 19.6% rising
36 Central African Republic 1.36 GPIA 2012 up 9.7% falling
37 Ethiopia 1.36 GPIA 2015 up 17.5% rising
38 Kyrgyzstan 1.35 GPIA 2012 up 17.5% flat
39 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.34 GPIA 2012 down 29.6% falling
40 Bahrain 1.34 GPIA 2019 up 76.1% falling
41 Cuba 1.31 GPIA 2019 down 4.7% flat
42 Iceland 1.31 GPIA 2016 up 2.8% flat
43 Nigeria 1.29 GPIA 2010 up 0.1% flat
44 Thailand 1.24 GPIA 2009 — rising
45 Cape Verde 1.24 GPIA 2018 down 13.3% rising
46 North Macedonia 1.23 GPIA 2018 up 12.6% falling
47 Honduras 1.22 GPIA 2019 up 38.0% flat
48 United States of America 1.19 GPIA 2018 up 23.9% rising
49 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.18 GPIA 2019 down 11.4% rising
50 Niger 1.17 GPIA 2019 down 4.3% rising
51 Australia 1.17 GPIA 2018 up 67.2% falling
52 China 1.16 GPIA 1997 down 31.4% falling
53 Cayman Islands 1.15 GPIA 2018 up 0.1% falling
54 Republic of Moldova 1.15 GPIA 2019 up 1.3% falling
55 Philippines 1.14 GPIA 2018 up 55.1% falling
56 Mali 1.14 GPIA 2018 down 9.1% rising
57 Guinea-Bissau 1.13 GPIA 2010 down 12.5% falling
58 Morocco 1.12 GPIA 2017 down 16.6% falling
59 Türkiye 1.11 GPIA 2018 down 33.3% falling
60 Eswatini 1.1 GPIA 2018 up 5.5% rising
61 Myanmar 1.1 GPIA 2010 down 7.3% falling
62 Italy 1.1 GPIA 2018 down 44.8% rising
63 Canada 1.1 GPIA 1998 up 1.3% rising
64 Eritrea 1.1 GPIA 2018 down 16.0% rising
65 Serbia 1.09 GPIA 2019 down 10.8% falling
66 Djibouti 1.09 GPIA 2020 up 9.0% falling
67 Somalia 1.08 GPIA 1980 — flat
68 Jordan 1.07 GPIA 2019 up 14.5% falling
69 Syrian Arab Republic 1.06 GPIA 2013 down 46.3% falling
70 Burkina Faso 1.05 GPIA 2019 down 12.1% flat
71 Panama 1.05 GPIA 2017 down 47.3% rising
72 Republic of Korea 1.04 GPIA 2018 down 10.9% falling
73 Hungary 1.04 GPIA 2018 down 7.9% falling
74 Costa Rica 1.04 GPIA 2017 — falling
75 Sudan 1.03 GPIA 2017 down 10.3% falling
76 Haiti 1.03 GPIA 1997 up 3.8% flat
77 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.03 GPIA 2018 up 20.0% rising
78 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.03 GPIA 1999 down 24.9% falling
79 Uruguay 1.02 GPIA 2014 up 10.7% rising
80 Romania 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 12.0% rising
81 Cambodia 1 GPIA 2019 down 34.1% falling
82 Comoros 1 GPIA 2018 down 19.3% falling
83 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.9998 GPIA 2015 up 32.1% flat
84 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.9983 GPIA 2017 up 17.6% rising
85 Jamaica 0.9966 GPIA 2019 up 9.9% rising
86 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9951 GPIA 2017 up 15.0% falling
87 Armenia 0.9924 GPIA 2019 up 151.9% rising
88 Paraguay 0.989 GPIA 2012 up 38.9% falling
89 Madagascar 0.9887 GPIA 2003 up 12.0% falling
90 Bulgaria 0.9869 GPIA 2018 down 14.4% falling
91 Palestine, State of 0.9861 GPIA 2019 down 1.4% falling
92 Equatorial Guinea 0.9827 GPIA 2015 down 16.4% falling
93 Rwanda 0.9551 GPIA 2019 — falling
94 Guatemala 0.9526 GPIA 2019 down 23.6% falling
95 Montenegro 0.9458 GPIA 2017 up 29.8% rising
96 El Salvador 0.9449 GPIA 2018 down 2.8% flat
97 Slovakia 0.9358 GPIA 2018 down 5.8% flat
98 Bahamas 0.9285 GPIA 2018 down 11.6% flat
99 Vanuatu 0.9061 GPIA 2015 down 24.9% falling
100 Puerto Rico 0.9038 GPIA 2018 up 58.5% rising
101 Botswana 0.9 GPIA 2014 down 8.8% rising
102 Hong Kong, China 0.8931 GPIA 1996 up 15.5% falling
103 Estonia 0.888 GPIA 2018 down 28.5% falling
104 Zimbabwe 0.8864 GPIA 2003 up 2.1% flat
105 Luxembourg 0.8825 GPIA 2015 up 35.7% falling
106 South Africa 0.8597 GPIA 2018 up 26.0% falling
107 Brunei Darussalam 0.8565 GPIA 1995 down 11.1% falling
108 Spain 0.8554 GPIA 2018 — rising
109 Mauritania 0.8504 GPIA 2019 down 6.5% falling
110 British Virgin Islands 0.843 GPIA 2013 up 252.3% flat
111 Kenya 0.8269 GPIA 2012 down 29.6% flat
112 Dominican Republic 0.8063 GPIA 2019 down 10.4% flat
113 Ukraine 0.7836 GPIA 2014 down 24.8% falling
114 Dominica 0.7802 GPIA 2019 up 16.3% rising
115 Finland 0.779 GPIA 2018 down 28.5% falling
116 Zambia 0.772 GPIA 2017 down 24.4% falling
117 Suriname 0.7707 GPIA 2019 up 37.6% falling
118 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.7637 GPIA 2019 down 34.4% falling
119 San Marino 0.7628 GPIA 2000 down 15.8% rising
120 Greece 0.761 GPIA 2018 down 42.4% rising
121 Georgia 0.7403 GPIA 2016 up 55.4% rising
122 Poland 0.7321 GPIA 2018 down 27.8% falling
123 Azerbaijan 0.723 GPIA 2019 down 36.0% rising
124 Lesotho 0.7181 GPIA 2017 down 14.0% rising
125 Senegal 0.6903 GPIA 2019 down 22.6% falling
126 Burundi 0.6514 GPIA 2019 down 24.6% falling
127 Colombia 0.6494 GPIA 2018 down 55.1% flat
128 United Arab Emirates 0.6264 GPIA 2013 down 25.0% falling
129 Egypt 0.6126 GPIA 2012 down 52.0% falling
130 Grenada 0.6122 GPIA 2005 — falling
131 Ecuador 0.5659 GPIA 2008 down 9.0% falling
132 Bangladesh 0.5579 GPIA 2008 — falling
133 Gambia 0.5178 GPIA 2019 down 40.0% falling
134 Uganda 0.5071 GPIA 2013 — falling
135 Namibia 0.4981 GPIA 2012 down 1.9% falling
136 Nicaragua 0.4911 GPIA 2010 down 40.9% falling
137 India 0.4769 GPIA 2013 down 57.4% falling
138 Congo 0.4732 GPIA 2012 down 42.7% falling
139 Belgium 0.4708 GPIA 2018 down 52.6% rising
140 Albania 0.4639 GPIA 2013 down 47.5% falling
141 Timor-Leste 0.4503 GPIA 2019 down 65.6% falling
142 Bhutan 0.4358 GPIA 2020 down 43.4% falling
143 New Zealand 0.431 GPIA 2016 — falling
144 Latvia 0.4295 GPIA 2018 down 52.3% falling
145 Austria 0.4112 GPIA 2016 down 61.8% falling
146 Croatia 0.4023 GPIA 2011 down 67.5% falling
147 Netherlands 0.3835 GPIA 2017 down 79.3% rising
148 Malta 0.3627 GPIA 1997 down 62.2% falling
149 Ghana 0.3434 GPIA 2019 down 64.7% falling
150 Aruba 0.3356 GPIA 2009 down 24.6% falling
151 Slovenia 0.3207 GPIA 2014 up 450.3% falling
152 Mauritius 0.2818 GPIA 2013 down 42.1% falling
153 Denmark 0.2394 GPIA 2018 down 62.2% falling
154 Maldives 0.229 GPIA 2019 — volatile
155 Germany 0.2173 GPIA 2016 down 79.3% falling
156 Russian Federation 0.2135 GPIA 2016 down 73.5% falling
157 Kuwait 0.2022 GPIA 2016 down 62.9% falling
158 Peru 0.1876 GPIA 2011 down 48.4% falling
159 Oman 0.1687 GPIA 2011 down 81.4% falling
160 Tunisia 0.1224 GPIA 2009 down 89.5% falling
161 Qatar 0.1026 GPIA 2019 down 53.7% falling
162 Saint Lucia 0.0906 GPIA 2018 down 93.6% volatile
163 France 0.0845 GPIA 2016 down 90.4% falling
164 Switzerland 0.0299 GPIA 2012 down 91.8% falling
165 Ireland 0.023 GPIA 2001 down 97.3% flat

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 of primary school age, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
208 places, 5,055 data points, 1970–2020
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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/