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Survival rate to Grade 4 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI) by country

Ratio of female survival rate to grade 4 to the male survival rate to grade 4. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a...

Countries reporting
164
Highest
1.34 GPI
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Lowest
0.7201 GPI
Guinea-Bissau
Median
1 GPI
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
3,247

What the numbers show

Survival rate to Grade 4 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 1.34 GPI in Congo, Democratic Republic of the; the lowest is 0.7201 GPI in Guinea-Bissau.

The median across all reporting countries is 1 GPI, and the mean is 1.01 GPI.

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

Over the past decade 81 countries rose and 79 fell. The largest increase was in Guinea-Bissau (up 75.3%), and the largest decrease in Congo (down 34.3%).

Survival rate to Grade 4 of primary education, gender parity index: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.34 GPI 2014 up 34.5% rising
2 Mauritania 1.15 GPI 2016 up 10.3% rising
3 Bahamas 1.13 GPI 2015 up 6.0% flat
4 Burundi 1.11 GPI 2018 up 5.8% rising
5 Nicaragua 1.11 GPI 2007 down 1.9% falling
6 Haiti 1.09 GPI 1985 up 5.5% flat
7 Congo 1.09 GPI 2007 down 34.3% rising
8 Madagascar 1.08 GPI 2018 up 4.3% flat
9 Lesotho 1.08 GPI 2015 down 2.1% falling
10 Botswana 1.08 GPI 2013 up 4.6% flat
11 Burkina Faso 1.08 GPI 2018 up 9.0% rising
12 Gabon 1.07 GPI 1995 down 2.2% rising
13 Aruba 1.06 GPI 2013 up 5.5% flat
14 Suriname 1.06 GPI 2018 down 1.2% falling
15 Rwanda 1.06 GPI 2018 down 0.8% rising
16 Bhutan 1.06 GPI 2017 up 1.6% rising
17 Kuwait 1.05 GPI 2018 up 5.5% flat
18 Syrian Arab Republic 1.05 GPI 2012 up 6.0% rising
19 Cambodia 1.05 GPI 2018 down 0.8% rising
20 Kenya 1.05 GPI 2004 — flat
21 Timor-Leste 1.05 GPI 2018 down 0.4% flat
22 Nigeria 1.05 GPI 2009 up 1.9% flat
23 Ethiopia 1.05 GPI 2014 up 1.1% rising
24 Guyana 1.05 GPI 2011 down 9.3% flat
25 Viet Nam 1.04 GPI 2014 up 4.7% flat
26 Gambia 1.04 GPI 2018 up 1.9% rising
27 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.04 GPI 2018 down 0.7% rising
28 Colombia 1.04 GPI 2017 down 2.0% falling
29 Netherlands 1.03 GPI 1984 up 0.4% flat
30 Senegal 1.03 GPI 2014 up 7.5% rising
31 Pakistan 1.03 GPI 2018 up 4.1% falling
32 Costa Rica 1.03 GPI 2015 up 1.5% flat
33 Zimbabwe 1.03 GPI 2012 down 0.5% flat
34 Myanmar 1.03 GPI 2009 up 5.2% rising
35 Guatemala 1.03 GPI 2018 up 2.6% flat
36 Samoa 1.03 GPI 2018 down 4.4% flat
37 Uzbekistan 1.03 GPI 2018 up 1.4% flat
38 Panama 1.02 GPI 2013 up 2.1% flat
39 Tanzania, United Republic of 1.02 GPI 2018 up 1.2% flat
40 Paraguay 1.02 GPI 2011 down 0.3% flat
41 El Salvador 1.02 GPI 2017 down 1.4% flat
42 Malawi 1.02 GPI 2018 up 6.8% rising
43 Armenia 1.02 GPI 2018 up 2.8% flat
44 South Africa 1.02 GPI 2017 up 1.3% flat
45 Solomon Islands 1.02 GPI 2017 up 4.4% rising
46 Uganda 1.02 GPI 2016 up 0.8% falling
47 Chad 1.02 GPI 2017 up 15.6% rising
48 Azerbaijan 1.02 GPI 2018 up 5.5% flat
49 Djibouti 1.02 GPI 2019 up 3.4% falling
50 Philippines 1.02 GPI 2016 down 6.7% flat
51 Cameroon 1.02 GPI 2018 down 1.1% flat
52 Namibia 1.02 GPI 2017 down 0.7% flat
53 Lebanon 1.02 GPI 2018 up 3.6% flat
54 Honduras 1.02 GPI 2016 down 4.8% falling
55 Belgium 1.02 GPI 2017 up 0.4% flat
56 United Arab Emirates 1.02 GPI 2012 up 1.8% falling
57 Thailand 1.02 GPI 2017 — flat
58 New Caledonia 1.01 GPI 1989 up 1.2% flat
59 Cuba 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.1% falling
60 Togo 1.01 GPI 2013 up 4.8% rising
61 Dominican Republic 1.01 GPI 2018 down 4.6% falling
62 Malaysia 1.01 GPI 2016 down 0.0% flat
63 India 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.1% rising
64 Mongolia 1.01 GPI 2017 up 0.2% falling
65 Jordan 1.01 GPI 2018 down 2.1% flat
66 Bahrain 1.01 GPI 2018 up 3.4% falling
67 Macau, China 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.3% flat
68 Belarus 1.01 GPI 2017 down 2.9% flat
69 Latvia 1.01 GPI 2017 up 2.1% flat
70 Morocco 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
71 Brunei Darussalam 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
72 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.5% flat
73 Fiji 1.01 GPI 2015 up 2.3% flat
74 Slovenia 1.01 GPI 2017 up 1.1% flat
75 Tajikistan 1.01 GPI 2016 down 0.3% flat
76 Hong Kong, China 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.3% flat
77 Sri Lanka 1.01 GPI 2016 up 0.3% flat
78 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.01 GPI 2017 up 0.8% flat
79 Indonesia 1.01 GPI 2017 down 7.9% rising
80 Lithuania 1.01 GPI 2017 up 0.6% flat
81 Hungary 1 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
82 Jamaica 1 GPI 2018 down 2.4% flat
83 Egypt 1 GPI 2018 up 0.0% rising
84 Ghana 1 GPI 2017 up 4.6% rising
85 Sweden 1 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
86 Slovakia 1 GPI 2017 down 0.9% flat
87 Spain 1 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
88 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1 GPI 2017 down 10.1% falling
89 Croatia 1 GPI 2017 down 1.3% flat
90 Libya 1 GPI 1980 up 4.2% flat
91 Uruguay 1 GPI 2015 down 2.1% flat
92 Austria 1 GPI 2017 down 0.9% flat
93 Czechia 1 GPI 2017 down 0.0% flat
94 Denmark 1 GPI 2017 down 0.7% flat
95 Italy 1 GPI 2017 down 0.2% flat
96 Chile 1 GPI 2017 up 0.5% flat
97 Poland 1 GPI 2017 up 0.0% flat
98 Central African Republic 1 GPI 2011 — rising
99 Switzerland 1 GPI 2017 — flat
100 Romania 1 GPI 2016 down 1.0% flat
101 Oman 1 GPI 2018 down 2.1% rising
102 North Macedonia 1 GPI 2017 up 1.6% flat
103 Finland 1 GPI 2017 down 0.6% flat
104 Japan 1 GPI 2016 up 0.0% flat
105 Türkiye 0.9998 GPI 2017 down 0.8% flat
106 Malta 0.9998 GPI 2017 down 0.8% flat
107 Norway 0.9997 GPI 2017 down 0.9% flat
108 Peru 0.9997 GPI 2016 down 0.5% rising
109 Georgia 0.9997 GPI 2018 down 0.1% flat
110 Republic of Korea 0.9993 GPI 2017 down 0.3% flat
111 Niger 0.9991 GPI 2015 up 6.2% flat
112 Estonia 0.9989 GPI 2017 up 0.9% flat
113 Cape Verde 0.9988 GPI 2015 down 1.8% rising
114 Ecuador 0.9987 GPI 2017 down 2.7% flat
115 Greece 0.9986 GPI 2017 up 0.5% flat
116 Mexico 0.9986 GPI 2017 down 1.5% flat
117 Saint Lucia 0.9984 GPI 2018 down 2.9% flat
118 Albania 0.9984 GPI 2018 down 1.4% flat
119 Bulgaria 0.9981 GPI 2017 down 1.1% flat
119 Tunisia 0.9981 GPI 2016 up 0.3% rising
121 Luxembourg 0.9976 GPI 2016 down 0.9% flat
122 Tonga 0.9976 GPI 2005 up 3.7% flat
123 Argentina 0.997 GPI 2016 down 0.1% falling
124 Palestine, State of 0.9967 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
125 Saudi Arabia 0.9964 GPI 2016 up 6.8% rising
126 Singapore 0.9962 GPI 2017 down 0.6% flat
127 Germany 0.9956 GPI 2012 down 1.6% flat
128 Andorra 0.9955 GPI 2016 up 2.6% flat
129 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.995 GPI 2016 down 3.5% falling
130 Seychelles 0.9934 GPI 2017 down 1.7% flat
131 Ukraine 0.9931 GPI 2018 down 1.1% flat
132 Algeria 0.9928 GPI 2018 down 1.8% rising
133 Kazakhstan 0.9921 GPI 2018 down 1.4% flat
134 Iceland 0.9914 GPI 2017 down 1.0% flat
135 Qatar 0.9909 GPI 2018 down 6.2% flat
136 Kyrgyzstan 0.9906 GPI 2018 down 2.0% flat
137 Serbia 0.9897 GPI 2018 up 0.6% flat
138 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.9885 GPI 2016 down 0.9% flat
139 Eritrea 0.9877 GPI 2017 up 7.6% flat
140 Nepal 0.9874 GPI 2016 down 4.8% flat
141 Israel 0.9865 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
142 Belize 0.9861 GPI 2017 down 0.5% flat
143 Mauritius 0.9858 GPI 2018 down 5.0% flat
144 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.9857 GPI 2014 down 4.5% falling
145 Maldives 0.9853 GPI 2018 up 0.6% falling
146 Cyprus 0.9851 GPI 2017 down 4.0% flat
147 Eswatini 0.9838 GPI 2016 down 13.2% flat
148 Zambia 0.9836 GPI 2012 up 4.2% rising
149 Benin 0.9806 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
150 Mozambique 0.9778 GPI 2018 up 0.7% rising
151 Iraq 0.9745 GPI 1999 up 13.7% flat
152 Sao Tome and Principe 0.9733 GPI 2010 down 6.7% falling
153 Papua New Guinea 0.9682 GPI 1997 down 2.4% flat
154 Barbados 0.9587 GPI 2010 down 3.2% falling
155 Sudan 0.955 GPI 2016 down 3.2% flat
156 Guinea 0.9544 GPI 2013 up 6.2% rising
157 Yemen 0.9526 GPI 2012 up 3.7% flat
158 Vanuatu 0.9493 GPI 2008 down 2.2% flat
159 Mali 0.9415 GPI 2011 up 0.6% falling
160 Republic of Moldova 0.9271 GPI 2018 down 8.1% falling
161 Kiribati 0.9238 GPI 2005 down 7.4% flat
162 Dominica 0.8632 GPI 2014 down 11.7% flat
163 Côte d'Ivoire 0.8322 GPI 2018 down 18.5% flat
164 Guinea-Bissau 0.7201 GPI 1987 up 75.3% rising

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Indicator
Survival rate to Grade 4 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
164 places, 3,247 data points, 1970–2019
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Ratio of female survival rate to grade 4 to the male survival rate to grade 4. It is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. A GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a value greater than 1 indicates disparity in favor of females.