Proportion of 15-24 year-olds enrolled in vocational education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

Name: Proportion of 15-24 year-olds enrolled in vocational education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Countries reporting

143

Highest

1.55 GPIA

Lesotho

Lowest

0 GPIA

Samoa

Median

0.7601 GPIA

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,342

What the numbers show

Proportion of 15-24 year-olds enrolled in vocational education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 143 countries. The highest value is 1.55 GPIA in Lesotho; the lowest is 0 GPIA in Samoa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.7601 GPIA, and the mean is 0.6943 GPIA.

Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 54 fell. The largest increase was in Saudi Arabia (up 2,008.4%), and the largest decrease in Djibouti (down 100.0%).

Proportion of 15-24 year-olds enrolled in vocational education: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Lesotho	1.55 GPIA	2012	up 117.5%	falling
2	Nicaragua	1.35 GPIA	2010	up 4.5%	falling
3	Dominican Republic	1.32 GPIA	2019	down 4.8%	rising
4	British Virgin Islands	1.27 GPIA	2018	down 19.8%	volatile
5	Brazil	1.23 GPIA	2011	up 9.8%	rising
6	South Africa	1.2 GPIA	2018	up 90.4%	rising
7	Oman	1.19 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
8	Israel	1.16 GPIA	2018	up 43.3%	rising
9	Honduras	1.15 GPIA	2019	up 3.5%	falling
10	Seychelles	1.13 GPIA	2019	—	rising
11	Ethiopia	1.11 GPIA	2015	up 39.8%	volatile
12	Costa Rica	1.08 GPIA	2019	up 1.9%	rising
13	Guatemala	1.06 GPIA	2018	down 0.1%	flat
14	United Arab Emirates	1.05 GPIA	2017	—	volatile
15	Georgia	1.04 GPIA	2019	—	rising
16	Chile	1.04 GPIA	2018	up 6.0%	rising
17	Lao People's Democratic Republic	1.03 GPIA	2019	—	rising
18	Peru	1.02 GPIA	2019	down 27.7%	volatile
19	Paraguay	1.01 GPIA	2016	up 1.6%	rising
20	Uzbekistan	1.01 GPIA	2018	up 9.4%	rising
21	Armenia	1 GPIA	2019	up 72.8%	rising
22	Mexico	0.9783 GPIA	2018	down 2.5%	falling
23	Brunei Darussalam	0.9739 GPIA	2019	up 42.4%	rising
24	Luxembourg	0.9734 GPIA	2018	up 2.9%	rising
25	Libya	0.9725 GPIA	1983	down 6.0%	falling
26	El Salvador	0.9685 GPIA	2018	down 8.9%	flat
27	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	0.9681 GPIA	2015	down 4.6%	flat
28	Vanuatu	0.9661 GPIA	2015	up 120.2%	volatile
29	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	0.9623 GPIA	2018	down 1.3%	rising
30	Guinea	0.9517 GPIA	2014	—	volatile
31	Türkiye	0.9405 GPIA	2018	up 40.7%	rising
32	Burundi	0.9376 GPIA	2019	up 40.4%	rising
33	Netherlands	0.9366 GPIA	2018	up 4.7%	rising
34	Sao Tome and Principe	0.9343 GPIA	2015	up 325.0%	volatile
35	Niger	0.9165 GPIA	2017	—	volatile
36	New Zealand	0.907 GPIA	2018	up 8.0%	volatile
37	Mauritania	0.9012 GPIA	2019	up 72.5%	rising
38	Panama	0.8976 GPIA	2017	down 11.5%	falling
39	Austria	0.8971 GPIA	2018	up 16.3%	falling
40	Eritrea	0.8936 GPIA	2018	up 13.6%	volatile
41	Serbia	0.8921 GPIA	2019	down 5.0%	flat
42	Kazakhstan	0.8852 GPIA	2019	down 2.9%	falling
43	Latvia	0.883 GPIA	2018	up 23.9%	rising
44	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	0.8754 GPIA	2018	down 10.0%	falling
45	Indonesia	0.8695 GPIA	2018	up 21.7%	rising
46	Australia	0.8668 GPIA	2018	—	falling
47	Suriname	0.8666 GPIA	2015	up 0.4%	falling
48	Slovakia	0.8655 GPIA	2018	down 2.5%	falling
49	Malta	0.8557 GPIA	2018	up 56.2%	volatile
50	Belgium	0.8458 GPIA	2018	down 9.2%	falling
51	Ireland	0.8428 GPIA	2018	down 25.3%	volatile
52	Czechia	0.8398 GPIA	2018	down 6.7%	falling
53	Croatia	0.8361 GPIA	2018	down 0.9%	falling
54	Hungary	0.8336 GPIA	2018	up 34.8%	falling
55	San Marino	0.8294 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
56	Cuba	0.8196 GPIA	2019	up 15.9%	flat
57	Malaysia	0.8184 GPIA	2019	up 1.4%	flat
58	Finland	0.8178 GPIA	2018	down 6.1%	falling
59	Poland	0.8156 GPIA	2018	up 35.2%	flat
60	Slovenia	0.8091 GPIA	2018	up 8.3%	falling
61	Aruba	0.801 GPIA	2011	up 42.6%	rising
62	Sweden	0.7999 GPIA	2018	down 4.0%	falling
63	Ecuador	0.7968 GPIA	2018	down 25.2%	falling
64	Rwanda	0.7921 GPIA	2019	—	flat
65	Sri Lanka	0.7904 GPIA	2018	up 0.6%	volatile
66	France	0.7861 GPIA	2018	up 5.8%	falling
67	Timor-Leste	0.7845 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
68	Germany	0.781 GPIA	2018	up 2.8%	falling
69	Puerto Rico	0.7689 GPIA	2016	—	volatile
70	Romania	0.7605 GPIA	2012	down 7.1%	flat
71	Tuvalu	0.7605 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
72	Spain	0.7601 GPIA	2018	down 9.6%	rising
73	Egypt	0.7551 GPIA	2019	down 14.4%	rising
74	Palestine, State of	0.7524 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
75	Jordan	0.744 GPIA	2019	up 16.9%	flat
76	Switzerland	0.7425 GPIA	2018	up 6.0%	flat
77	Greece	0.7346 GPIA	2018	up 28.2%	flat
78	Syria	0.7334 GPIA	2013	down 11.5%	rising
79	Republic of Korea	0.7251 GPIA	2018	down 22.8%	rising
80	Marshall Islands	0.7221 GPIA	2019	down 28.5%	volatile
81	Kyrgyzstan	0.7084 GPIA	2019	up 44.0%	rising
82	Belize	0.7027 GPIA	2019	down 22.5%	rising
83	Mali	0.7011 GPIA	2018	down 1.4%	rising
84	Cape Verde	0.6998 GPIA	2018	down 13.7%	rising
85	Bulgaria	0.6822 GPIA	2018	up 3.8%	flat
86	Portugal	0.6784 GPIA	2018	down 11.9%	rising
87	Myanmar	0.6782 GPIA	2018	—	volatile
88	Lithuania	0.672 GPIA	2018	up 18.2%	falling
89	Uruguay	0.6719 GPIA	2017	down 2.9%	falling
90	Burkina Faso	0.6605 GPIA	2019	down 32.8%	flat
91	Estonia	0.6457 GPIA	2018	up 17.5%	rising
92	Liechtenstein	0.6452 GPIA	2018	up 11.8%	volatile
93	Italy	0.631 GPIA	2018	down 6.9%	falling
94	Saint Lucia	0.6306 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
95	Belarus	0.6292 GPIA	2018	down 1.9%	flat
96	Macao	0.6238 GPIA	2019	down 19.0%	rising
97	Norway	0.6176 GPIA	2018	down 9.3%	falling
98	Denmark	0.61 GPIA	2018	down 9.3%	falling
99	Thailand	0.605 GPIA	2015	up 11.8%	falling
100	Ukraine	0.6016 GPIA	2014	up 17.5%	rising
101	Central African Republic	0.5971 GPIA	2012	—	rising
102	Botswana	0.5842 GPIA	2003	down 26.5%	falling
103	Tunisia	0.5834 GPIA	1985	up 17.7%	rising
104	Algeria	0.5813 GPIA	1997	up 51.3%	rising
105	Mongolia	0.5764 GPIA	2018	down 32.0%	falling
106	Cameroon	0.5725 GPIA	2016	down 2.4%	rising
107	Antigua and Barbuda	0.5505 GPIA	2018	up 13.9%	volatile
108	Madagascar	0.5355 GPIA	2019	down 3.0%	volatile
109	Iran	0.5326 GPIA	2017	down 16.9%	falling
110	Gambia	0.5266 GPIA	1986	up 72.9%	rising
111	Grenada	0.5264 GPIA	2018	—	volatile
112	Benin	0.5152 GPIA	2016	down 9.1%	flat
113	Mozambique	0.502 GPIA	2015	up 25.0%	rising
114	Angola	0.4759 GPIA	2011	—	falling
115	Iceland	0.4641 GPIA	2018	down 24.2%	falling
116	Cyprus	0.3899 GPIA	2018	up 120.1%	rising
117	Hong Kong	0.3892 GPIA	2019	—	falling
118	Ghana	0.38 GPIA	2019	down 55.9%	volatile
119	Iraq	0.3557 GPIA	2007	down 1.0%	falling
120	Qatar	0.355 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
121	Bangladesh	0.3385 GPIA	2019	down 17.0%	rising
122	Mauritius	0.2931 GPIA	2018	down 7.6%	rising
123	Albania	0.2422 GPIA	2019	down 21.5%	falling
124	Saudi Arabia	0.2372 GPIA	2019	up 2,008.4%	volatile
125	Afghanistan	0.2278 GPIA	2018	—	volatile
126	Fiji	0.225 GPIA	2012	—	volatile
127	Tonga	0.1918 GPIA	2015	down 77.3%	volatile
128	Bahrain	0.1571 GPIA	2019	down 71.0%	volatile
129	Naoero	0.1535 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
130	Argentina	0 GPIA	2017	—	volatile
130	Barbados	0 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
130	Djibouti	0 GPIA	2009	down 100.0%	falling
130	Dominica	0 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
130	Jamaica	0 GPIA	2019	—	volatile
130	Cambodia	0 GPIA	2008	down 100.0%	volatile
130	Kiribati	0 GPIA	2008	—	volatile
130	Kuwait	0 GPIA	2015	—	volatile
130	Somalia	0 GPIA	2007	—	falling
130	Eswatini	0 GPIA	2015	—	volatile
130	Turks and Caicos Islands	0 GPIA	2018	—	volatile
130	Chad	0 GPIA	2017	—	volatile
130	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0 GPIA	2017	—	volatile
130	Samoa	0 GPIA	2016	—	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.04 GPIA
World 0.8579 GPIA
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 1.04 GPIA
European Union 0.7857 GPIA
Latin America & Caribbean 1.04 GPIA
Late-demographic dividend 1.03 GPIA
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 1.02 GPIA
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.02 GPIA
East Asia & Pacific 0.993 GPIA
Upper middle income 0.9875 GPIA
IBRD only 0.9114 GPIA
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 0.9071 GPIA
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 0.894 GPIA
Middle income 0.887 GPIA
Low & middle income 0.8828 GPIA
OECD members 0.8527 GPIA
Caribbean Small States 0.8425 GPIA
Europe & Central Asia 0.837 GPIA
Central Europe and the Baltics 0.8053 GPIA
Early-demographic dividend 0.7884 GPIA
IDA blend 0.7877 GPIA
High income 0.7836 GPIA
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 0.7799 GPIA
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.7795 GPIA
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 0.7795 GPIA
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 0.7788 GPIA
Post-demographic dividend 0.7785 GPIA
Euro area 0.767 GPIA
Low income 0.7614 GPIA
Small states 0.6901 GPIA
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 0.6755 GPIA
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 0.6749 GPIA
Other small states 0.6698 GPIA
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 0.6676 GPIA
Arab World 0.6675 GPIA
IDA only 0.6106 GPIA
Lower middle income 0.6007 GPIA
Pre-demographic dividend 0.5925 GPIA
Least developed countries 0.5667 GPIA
Pacific island small states 0.4045 GPIA

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Indicator: Proportion of 15-24 year-olds enrolled in vocational education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit: GPIA
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 204 places, 4,342 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 21 August 2026

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/