Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational was 2.1% in 2020. ▼ Falling
Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1984–2020
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2020, share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) stood at 2.1%.
That represents a change of down 0.3% on the previous year and down 15.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 6.4% in 1997 and was at its lowest, 1.8%, in 2017.
That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2020, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 37 years of available data.
Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 4.0% | — |
| 1985 | 4.0% | -2.2% |
| 1986 | 3.7% | -5.3% |
| 1987 | 3.7% | -1.3% |
| 1988 | 3.6% | -1.6% |
| 1989 | 3.9% | +6.4% |
| 1990 | 3.9% | +1.5% |
| 1991 | 3.9% | -0.9% |
| 1992 | 3.4% | -13.2% |
| 1993 | 4.0% | +17.4% |
| 1994 | 4.1% | +3.1% |
| 1995 | 4.4% | +7.3% |
| 1996 | 4.4% | -0.5% |
| 1997 | 6.4% | +46.4% |
| 1998 | 4.9% | -23.6% |
| 1999 | 4.6% | -6.6% |
| 2000 | 4.6% | +1.6% |
| 2001 | 4.4% | -4.4% |
| 2002 | 4.3% | -2.6% |
| 2003 | 3.3% | -24.4% |
| 2004 | 3.2% | -3.0% |
| 2005 | 3.0% | -4.5% |
| 2006 | 3.2% | +4.6% |
| 2007 | 2.6% | -16.2% |
| 2008 | 2.5% | -6.2% |
| 2009 | 2.4% | -5.0% |
| 2010 | 2.4% | +3.6% |
| 2011 | 2.6% | +5.7% |
| 2012 | 2.6% | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 2.3% | -13.3% |
| 2014 | 1.9% | -15.0% |
| 2015 | 2.1% | +11.8% |
| 2016 | 1.9% | -9.8% |
| 2017 | 1.8% | -5.8% |
| 2018 | 2.2% | +22.7% |
| 2019 | 2.1% | -7.8% |
| 2020 | 2.1% | -0.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 3.8% | 3.6% | 4.0% | 6 |
| 1990s | 4.4% | 3.4% | 6.4% | 10 |
| 2000s | 3.3% | 2.4% | 4.6% | 10 |
| 2010s | 2.2% | 1.8% | 2.6% | 10 |
| 2020s | 2.1% | 2.1% | 2.1% | 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 share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 2.1% in 2020, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The highest recorded value was 6.4% in 1997.
- What is the lowest share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.8% in 2017.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational?
- ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 212th out of 221 groups with data for 2020.
- Is share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 15.7%. 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 Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes, both sexes (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release