Gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea
Guinea: Gender gap education levels, gaps filled was 78.94 in 2020. ▲ Rising
Gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea, 1984–2020
Source: Statizoid (derived).
Analysis
Guinea recorded 78.94 for gender gap education levels, gaps filled in 2020. That is the highest value across all 31 years on record.
The figure is up 2.2% on the previous year and up 20.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea peaked at 78.94 in 2020 and was at its lowest, 14.92, in 1987.
That places Guinea 162nd out of 190 countries with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 31 years of available data.
Gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 15.79 | — |
| 1985 | 17.19 | +8.8% |
| 1986 | 16.17 | -5.9% |
| 1987 | 14.92 | -7.7% |
| 1988 | 15.86 | +6.3% |
| 1989 | 16.16 | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 15.91 | -1.5% |
| 1991 | 17.38 | +9.2% |
| 1998 | 32.3 | +85.8% |
| 1999 | 34.99 | +8.3% |
| 2000 | 38.68 | +10.5% |
| 2001 | 42.01 | +8.6% |
| 2002 | 48.61 | +15.7% |
| 2003 | 52.12 | +7.2% |
| 2004 | 55.3 | +6.1% |
| 2005 | 57.62 | +4.2% |
| 2006 | 60.27 | +4.6% |
| 2007 | 62.43 | +3.6% |
| 2008 | 61.66 | -1.2% |
| 2009 | 63.39 | +2.8% |
| 2010 | 65.68 | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 71.17 | +8.4% |
| 2012 | 70.66 | -0.7% |
| 2013 | 72.31 | +2.3% |
| 2014 | 75.83 | +4.9% |
| 2015 | 74.04 | -2.4% |
| 2016 | 72.25 | -2.4% |
| 2017 | 73.92 | +2.3% |
| 2018 | 75.6 | +2.3% |
| 2019 | 77.27 | +2.2% |
| 2020 | 78.94 | +2.2% |
Guinea compared with similar countries
- Guinea's 78.94 is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 90.55, 87% of the median. (46 countries reporting)
- Guinea's 78.94 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 86.36, 91% of the median. (46 countries reporting)
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | +85.8% | 17.38 | 32.3 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 16.02 | 14.92 | 17.19 | 6 |
| 1990s | 25.15 | 15.91 | 34.99 | 4 |
| 2000s | 54.21 | 38.68 | 63.39 | 10 |
| 2010s | 72.87 | 65.68 | 77.27 | 10 |
| 2020s | 78.94 | 78.94 | 78.94 | 1 |
Countries ranked near Guinea
More education data for Guinea
- Primary enrollment selected countries, gaps filled 85.27 (2020)
- Teachers in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 19,322 (2011)
- Repeaters in primary education, all grades, both sexes (number), gaps 256,207 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, male (number), gaps filled 103,162 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, female (number), gaps filled 99,093 (2020)
- Secondary education, pupils, gaps filled 715,702 (2014)
- Primary education, duration (years), annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Primary education, pupils, gaps filled 2.11 million (2020)
- Primary education, pupils, annual growth rate 3.81 % change on previous year (2014)
- Primary education, pupils, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2020)
Frequently asked questions
- What is gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea?
- Gender gap education levels, gaps filled in Guinea was 78.94 in 2020, according to Statizoid (derived).
- What is the highest gender gap education levels, gaps filled recorded in Guinea?
- The highest recorded value was 78.94 in 2020.
- What is the lowest gender gap education levels, gaps filled recorded in Guinea?
- The lowest recorded value was 14.92 in 1987.
- How does Guinea rank for gender gap education levels, gaps filled?
- Guinea ranks 162nd out of 190 countries with data for 2020.
- Is gender gap education levels, gaps filled rising or falling in Guinea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 20.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guinea data come from?
- The figures come from Statizoid (derived), published as part of Gender gap education levels, gaps filled. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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How this figure is calculated
Gender gap education levels with 642 missing years estimated by linear interpolation between the nearest real observations. Only gaps of 4 years or fewer are filled, and never beyond the first or last actual measurement — these are filled holes, not forecasts.
Computed from
- Gender gap in primary, secondary and tertiary education UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026); Lee and Lee (2016) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Gender gap education levels with 642 missing years estimated by linear interpolation between the nearest real observations. Only gaps of 4 years or fewer are filled, and never beyond the first or last actual measurement — these are filled holes, not forecasts.