Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

February 2026 Data Release

Countries reporting
194
Highest
1.29 GPIA
Senegal
Lowest
0.6829 GPIA
Central African Republic
Median
1.01 GPIA
Years covered
56
1970–2025
Data points
13,116

What the numbers show

Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 194 countries. The highest value is 1.29 GPIA in Senegal; the lowest is 0.6829 GPIA in Central African Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.01 GPIA, and the mean is 1.01 GPIA.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 124 countries rose and 70 fell. The largest increase was in Libya (up 82.6%), and the largest decrease in Antigua and Barbuda (down 19.3%).

Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, adjusted: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Senegal 1.29 GPIA 2024 up 14.7% rising
2 British Virgin Islands 1.28 GPIA 2024 up 14.0% flat
3 Tuvalu 1.23 GPIA 2024 up 16.5% rising
4 Kuwait 1.22 GPIA 2021 up 18.8% rising
5 Gambia 1.19 GPIA 2025 up 11.1% rising
6 Burkina Faso 1.18 GPIA 2024 up 12.9% rising
7 Rwanda 1.18 GPIA 2024 up 3.1% rising
8 Bhutan 1.17 GPIA 2024 up 1.3% rising
9 Tokelau 1.16 GPIA 2025 up 67.8% falling
10 Bangladesh 1.16 GPIA 2024 up 5.3% rising
11 Tanzania, United Republic of 1.16 GPIA 2024 up 8.2% rising
12 Cook Islands 1.15 GPIA 2024 up 8.9% falling
13 Burundi 1.14 GPIA 2020 up 19.2% rising
14 Lesotho 1.14 GPIA 2023 down 6.5% falling
15 Naoero 1.13 GPIA 2025 up 43.8% rising
16 Montserrat 1.13 GPIA 2014 down 10.6% rising
17 Suriname 1.12 GPIA 2021 up 2.0% flat
18 Malawi 1.12 GPIA 2024 up 11.8% rising
19 Liechtenstein 1.11 GPIA 2021 up 11.6% flat
20 Palau 1.1 GPIA 2024 up 18.4% rising
21 Madagascar 1.09 GPIA 2024 up 2.4% rising
22 Micronesia, Federated States of 1.09 GPIA 2024 up 15.2% rising
23 Barbados 1.08 GPIA 2024 up 6.2% rising
24 Maldives 1.08 GPIA 2024 up 6.8% flat
25 Equatorial Guinea 1.08 GPIA 2015 up 13.8% rising
26 Saint Lucia 1.08 GPIA 2024 up 7.9% flat
27 New Caledonia 1.07 GPIA 1990 up 9.7% rising
28 Bermuda 1.06 GPIA 2013 up 1.5% falling
29 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 32.7% falling
30 Cyprus 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 7.4% flat
31 Tunisia 1.05 GPIA 2021 up 4.5% rising
32 Sierra Leone 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 9.9% rising
33 Honduras 1.05 GPIA 2024 down 0.3% flat
34 Sao Tome and Principe 1.05 GPIA 2017 down 0.4% flat
35 Malaysia 1.05 GPIA 2024 down 0.2% rising
36 Cambodia 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 2.9% rising
37 Zimbabwe 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 4.7% rising
38 Belize 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 6.7% flat
39 Qatar 1.04 GPIA 2024 down 0.4% falling
40 Cayman Islands 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 15.9% flat
41 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 4.3% falling
42 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 1.1% falling
43 Namibia 1.04 GPIA 2024 down 1.1% flat
44 Syrian Arab Republic 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 4.9% rising
45 Solomon Islands 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 3.5% rising
46 Angola 1.04 GPIA 2023 up 80.4% rising
47 Liberia 1.04 GPIA 2022 up 25.2% rising
48 Lebanon 1.04 GPIA 2023 up 1.3% flat
49 Botswana 1.04 GPIA 2022 up 0.4% falling
50 El Salvador 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 1.2% flat
51 Brunei Darussalam 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 0.7% falling
52 United Arab Emirates 1.03 GPIA 2023 up 3.7% falling
53 Eswatini 1.03 GPIA 2023 up 1.0% flat
54 Montenegro 1.03 GPIA 2023 up 2.1% flat
55 Tonga 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 8.0% rising
56 Mauritania 1.03 GPIA 2020 up 1.3% rising
57 Switzerland 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 1.2% flat
58 Nicaragua 1.03 GPIA 2022 down 2.6% falling
59 Guatemala 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 6.5% rising
60 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.03 GPIA 2023 up 1.5% flat
61 Gabon 1.03 GPIA 2003 down 6.1% rising
62 Myanmar 1.03 GPIA 2018 down 2.5% rising
63 Ecuador 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 1.2% flat
64 Mongolia 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 1.8% flat
65 Uganda 1.02 GPIA 2017 up 11.6% rising
66 Ireland 1.02 GPIA 2022 down 0.9% flat
67 San Marino 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 1.3% flat
68 Comoros 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 7.4% rising
69 Trinidad and Tobago 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 0.9% flat
70 Ukraine 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 0.6% flat
71 Hungary 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 3.1% flat
72 Luxembourg 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 3.1% flat
73 Argentina 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 1.5% falling
74 Cape Verde 1.02 GPIA 2022 down 1.8% flat
75 Sri Lanka 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 4.2% flat
76 Cuba 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 0.1% falling
77 Jamaica 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 3.0% falling
78 India 1.02 GPIA 2025 down 1.1% rising
79 Dominican Republic 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 2.5% falling
80 Jordan 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 1.2% rising
81 Côte d'Ivoire 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 17.2% rising
82 Gibraltar 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 1.0% flat
83 Aruba 1.01 GPIA 2022 down 6.8% rising
84 Morocco 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 1.0% rising
85 Bahamas 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 1.5% flat
86 Ghana 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 5.3% rising
87 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 1.1% rising
88 Bahrain 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 1.3% flat
89 Germany 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 1.5% flat
90 Mexico 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.6% flat
91 China 1.01 GPIA 2010 up 4.5% rising
92 Uruguay 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 1.9% flat
93 Israel 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.1% flat
94 Belarus 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.6% flat
95 Kyrgyzstan 1.01 GPIA 2025 up 1.3% rising
96 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.01 GPIA 2025 up 3.6% rising
97 Estonia 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 0.6% flat
98 Serbia 1.01 GPIA 2022 up 0.1% flat
99 Egypt 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.5% rising
100 Lithuania 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.1% flat
101 Saudi Arabia 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 3.2% rising
102 Latvia 1 GPIA 2024 up 1.3% flat
103 Slovakia 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.8% flat
104 Austria 1 GPIA 2024 down 1.2% flat
105 Oman 1 GPIA 2024 down 1.6% rising
106 Norway 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.3% flat
107 Spain 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.2% flat
108 Timor-Leste 1 GPIA 2023 down 5.4% flat
109 Romania 1 GPIA 2023 up 1.2% flat
110 Italy 1 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
111 Bulgaria 1 GPIA 2024 up 0.2% flat
112 Finland 0.9994 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% flat
113 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.9993 GPIA 2024 down 0.4% flat
114 Panama 0.9991 GPIA 2024 up 1.9% flat
115 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.999 GPIA 2023 down 0.2% flat
116 Malta 0.9989 GPIA 2023 down 1.0% flat
117 Portugal 0.9986 GPIA 2023 up 0.6% flat
118 Kenya 0.9984 GPIA 2016 up 3.1% rising
119 Mauritius 0.9982 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% falling
120 Albania 0.9982 GPIA 2024 down 2.2% flat
121 Sweden 0.9973 GPIA 2024 up 0.2% flat
122 Congo 0.9969 GPIA 2023 down 10.3% rising
123 Singapore 0.9967 GPIA 2023 up 0.9% flat
124 Vanuatu 0.9961 GPIA 2024 down 3.8% flat
125 Peru 0.9957 GPIA 2019 up 2.1% rising
126 Macau, China 0.9956 GPIA 2024 up 1.1% flat
127 Republic of Korea 0.9956 GPIA 2024 up 0.8% flat
128 Iceland 0.9948 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
129 Denmark 0.9948 GPIA 2024 down 0.6% flat
130 Greece 0.9945 GPIA 2023 up 1.8% flat
131 Republic of Moldova 0.9945 GPIA 2024 down 1.6% flat
132 Togo 0.9942 GPIA 2024 up 13.4% rising
133 Croatia 0.9937 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
134 Russian Federation 0.9932 GPIA 2019 down 2.0% flat
135 Colombia 0.9926 GPIA 2022 up 0.1% falling
136 Seychelles 0.9923 GPIA 2024 down 1.1% falling
137 Ethiopia 0.9922 GPIA 2024 down 0.0% rising
138 Poland 0.992 GPIA 2019 down 0.8% flat
139 Niger 0.9918 GPIA 2024 up 25.4% rising
140 Costa Rica 0.9918 GPIA 2024 up 1.4% flat
141 Paraguay 0.9911 GPIA 2024 down 2.5% rising
142 Nepal 0.99 GPIA 2025 down 9.0% rising
143 North Macedonia 0.9894 GPIA 2023 down 0.7% flat
144 Philippines 0.9886 GPIA 2024 down 6.6% falling
145 Slovenia 0.9882 GPIA 2023 down 2.4% flat
146 Uzbekistan 0.9881 GPIA 2025 down 0.4% flat
147 Sudan 0.986 GPIA 2019 up 21.4% rising
148 Thailand 0.985 GPIA 2025 down 1.9% rising
149 Georgia 0.9848 GPIA 2024 up 4.7% flat
150 Kazakhstan 0.9848 GPIA 2025 down 1.5% flat
151 Czechia 0.9842 GPIA 2023 down 2.6% flat
152 South Africa 0.9826 GPIA 2023 down 1.2% falling
153 Algeria 0.982 GPIA 2025 down 2.2% rising
154 Azerbaijan 0.9812 GPIA 2024 down 0.9% flat
155 Palestine, State of 0.9806 GPIA 2023 up 2.4% flat
156 Hong Kong, China 0.9799 GPIA 2024 down 1.9% flat
157 Guyana 0.9798 GPIA 2012 up 11.1% flat
158 Marshall Islands 0.978 GPIA 2024 down 7.0% rising
159 Indonesia 0.9776 GPIA 2023 down 5.4% falling
160 Chile 0.9758 GPIA 2024 down 2.5% flat
161 Dominica 0.9734 GPIA 2025 down 8.5% falling
162 Türkiye 0.9732 GPIA 2023 down 2.5% rising
163 Samoa 0.9698 GPIA 2024 up 2.7% flat
164 Armenia 0.9688 GPIA 2024 up 1.3% flat
165 Pakistan 0.9667 GPIA 2024 up 17.7% rising
166 United States of America 0.9664 GPIA 2022 down 0.1% flat
167 Papua New Guinea 0.9656 GPIA 2023 up 7.6% rising
168 Viet Nam 0.9642 GPIA 2024 down 5.2% flat
169 Fiji 0.9578 GPIA 2024 down 0.9% falling
170 Tajikistan 0.9555 GPIA 2017 up 8.7% flat
171 Zambia 0.9505 GPIA 2013 up 17.4% rising
172 Mali 0.9489 GPIA 2023 up 12.6% rising
173 Grenada 0.9439 GPIA 2024 up 2.7% falling
174 Andorra 0.9382 GPIA 2024 down 5.1% flat
175 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.9289 GPIA 2023 up 14.9% rising
176 Cameroon 0.9267 GPIA 2024 up 5.4% rising
177 Haiti 0.9216 GPIA 1997 up 5.8% rising
178 Benin 0.9212 GPIA 2022 up 12.0% rising
179 Libya 0.9172 GPIA 1983 up 82.6% rising
180 Kiribati 0.9079 GPIA 2024 down 14.5% falling
181 Mozambique 0.9003 GPIA 2022 up 5.6% rising
182 Nigeria 0.8776 GPIA 2010 up 8.4% rising
183 Anguilla 0.8648 GPIA 2019 down 14.3% falling
184 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.8616 GPIA 2023 down 16.3% flat
185 Eritrea 0.8356 GPIA 2022 up 2.7% rising
186 Yemen 0.8147 GPIA 2016 up 30.0% rising
187 Guinea-Bissau 0.8043 GPIA 2010 up 42.0% rising
188 Niue 0.7897 GPIA 2025 up 15.4% falling
189 Guinea 0.7887 GPIA 2020 up 11.6% rising
190 Chad 0.7671 GPIA 2021 up 21.4% rising
191 Afghanistan 0.7425 GPIA 2023 up 12.5% volatile
192 Antigua and Barbuda 0.7383 GPIA 2022 down 19.3% flat
193 Iraq 0.7342 GPIA 2007 down 8.8% rising
194 Central African Republic 0.6829 GPIA 2016 up 6.6% rising

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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About this data

Indicator
Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
413 places, 13,116 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release