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 1.3% 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
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) recorded 1.3% for share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational in 2020. That is the lowest value across all 37 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.8% on the previous year and down 30.5% 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 5.9% in 1997 and was at its lowest, 1.3%, in 2020.
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 | 2.9% | — |
| 1985 | 2.9% | +0.3% |
| 1986 | 2.7% | -5.0% |
| 1987 | 2.7% | -0.5% |
| 1988 | 2.8% | +4.7% |
| 1989 | 3.1% | +9.6% |
| 1990 | 3.6% | +15.0% |
| 1991 | 3.7% | +3.2% |
| 1992 | 3.1% | -16.4% |
| 1993 | 3.9% | +26.7% |
| 1994 | 4.2% | +6.7% |
| 1995 | 4.6% | +10.7% |
| 1996 | 5.0% | +8.0% |
| 1997 | 5.9% | +18.2% |
| 1998 | 5.5% | -6.9% |
| 1999 | 5.4% | -1.3% |
| 2000 | 5.3% | -1.2% |
| 2001 | 4.9% | -8.9% |
| 2002 | 4.3% | -10.9% |
| 2003 | 3.0% | -30.7% |
| 2004 | 3.0% | -1.5% |
| 2005 | 2.7% | -9.2% |
| 2006 | 3.0% | +9.7% |
| 2007 | 2.0% | -30.7% |
| 2008 | 1.9% | -9.1% |
| 2009 | 1.8% | -1.7% |
| 2010 | 1.8% | +0.4% |
| 2011 | 2.0% | +7.8% |
| 2012 | 2.0% | +1.1% |
| 2013 | 1.8% | -11.1% |
| 2014 | 1.4% | -22.0% |
| 2015 | 1.6% | +18.2% |
| 2016 | 1.3% | -19.4% |
| 2017 | 1.3% | -2.8% |
| 2018 | 1.3% | +3.6% |
| 2019 | 1.3% | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 1.3% | -3.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 2.8% | 2.7% | 3.1% | 6 |
| 1990s | 4.5% | 3.1% | 5.9% | 10 |
| 2000s | 3.2% | 1.8% | 5.3% | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.6% | 1.3% | 2.0% | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.3% | 1.3% | 1.3% | 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 1.3% 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 5.9% 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 1.3% in 2020.
- 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 30.5%. 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, female (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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February 2026 Data Release