Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education was 0.5% in 2020. ▼ Falling
Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1976–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) recorded 0.5% for proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in 2020.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 16.1% on the previous year and down 27.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.9% in 1998 and was at its lowest, 0.3%, in 2016.
That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 217th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 44 years of available data.
Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 0.8% | — |
| 1977 | 0.8% | -1.3% |
| 1978 | 0.7% | -7.0% |
| 1979 | 0.7% | +1.7% |
| 1980 | 0.6% | -12.5% |
| 1981 | 0.7% | +7.6% |
| 1982 | 0.7% | -2.4% |
| 1983 | 0.7% | +0.4% |
| 1984 | 0.7% | +1.0% |
| 1985 | 0.7% | +1.7% |
| 1986 | 0.7% | +1.4% |
| 1987 | 0.7% | +2.4% |
| 1988 | 0.7% | +2.2% |
| 1989 | 0.7% | +1.9% |
| 1990 | 0.8% | +2.3% |
| 1991 | 0.8% | +2.4% |
| 1992 | 0.8% | +2.4% |
| 1993 | 0.8% | +2.6% |
| 1994 | 0.8% | +1.8% |
| 1995 | 0.8% | +1.4% |
| 1996 | 0.7% | -11.4% |
| 1997 | 0.8% | +1.6% |
| 1998 | 0.9% | +20.6% |
| 1999 | 0.8% | -14.8% |
| 2000 | 0.8% | +7.3% |
| 2001 | 0.9% | +2.2% |
| 2002 | 0.9% | +2.5% |
| 2003 | 0.9% | +0.4% |
| 2004 | 0.9% | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 0.9% | -3.7% |
| 2006 | 0.8% | -8.6% |
| 2007 | 0.7% | -9.5% |
| 2008 | 0.7% | -5.4% |
| 2009 | 0.7% | -0.4% |
| 2010 | 0.7% | -1.1% |
| 2011 | 0.7% | +11.5% |
| 2012 | 0.8% | +5.1% |
| 2013 | 0.5% | -31.6% |
| 2014 | 0.4% | -26.7% |
| 2015 | 0.3% | -19.5% |
| 2016 | 0.3% | -5.9% |
| 2018 | 0.3% | +17.7% |
| 2019 | 0.4% | +19.7% |
| 2020 | 0.5% | +16.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | -31.6% | 0.8% | 0.5% |
| 2014 | -26.7% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.8% | 4 |
| 1980s | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.8% | 0.7% | 0.9% | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.8% | 9 |
| 2020s | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 1 |
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, female (number), gaps filled 661,389 (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, male (number), gaps filled 685,428 (2020)
- Repeaters in primary education, all grades, both sexes (number), gaps 441,485 (2020)
- Teachers in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 265,472 (2020)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 316,507 (2020)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 3.50 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate -0.2475 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.35 million (2020)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 2.4 % change on previous year (2020)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 1.70 million (2016)
All data for ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) →
Frequently asked questions
- What is proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.5% in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9% in 1998.
- What is the lowest proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.3% in 2016.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 217th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 27.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Proportion of 15- to 24-year-olds enrolled in vocational education, male (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release