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Survival rate to Grade 5 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI) by country

Ratio of female survival rate to grade 5 to the male survival rate to grade 5. 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
141
Highest
1.51 GPI
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Lowest
0.8446 GPI
Guinea-Bissau
Median
1.01 GPI
Years covered
49
1970–2018
Data points
2,700

What the numbers show

Survival rate to Grade 5 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 141 countries. The highest value is 1.51 GPI in Congo, Democratic Republic of the; the lowest is 0.8446 GPI in Guinea-Bissau.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.01 GPI, and the mean is 1.02 GPI.

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

Over the past decade 77 countries rose and 60 fell. The largest increase was in Congo, Democratic Republic of the (up 54.3%), and the largest decrease in Congo (down 46.3%).

Survival rate to Grade 5 of primary education, gender parity index: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.51 GPI 2014 up 54.3% rising
2 Burundi 1.16 GPI 2018 up 5.7% rising
3 Nicaragua 1.15 GPI 2007 down 3.6% flat
4 Haiti 1.15 GPI 1985 up 14.1% rising
5 Burkina Faso 1.14 GPI 2018 up 13.1% rising
6 Lesotho 1.14 GPI 2015 down 2.0% falling
7 Madagascar 1.11 GPI 2018 up 6.8% flat
8 Rwanda 1.1 GPI 2018 up 0.9% rising
9 Kuwait 1.09 GPI 2018 up 9.4% flat
10 Bahamas 1.09 GPI 2015 up 1.5% flat
11 Suriname 1.09 GPI 2018 down 2.6% falling
12 Aruba 1.08 GPI 2013 up 7.6% rising
13 Mauritania 1.08 GPI 2016 up 3.8% rising
14 Gambia 1.08 GPI 2018 up 5.9% rising
15 Cambodia 1.07 GPI 2018 down 1.1% rising
16 Myanmar 1.07 GPI 2009 up 7.5% rising
17 Nigeria 1.07 GPI 2009 up 3.3% flat
18 Bhutan 1.07 GPI 2017 up 0.2% rising
19 Timor-Leste 1.06 GPI 2018 down 2.1% flat
20 Gabon 1.06 GPI 1995 down 4.4% rising
21 Chad 1.05 GPI 2017 up 27.2% rising
22 Congo 1.05 GPI 2007 down 46.3% rising
23 Malawi 1.05 GPI 2018 up 7.8% rising
24 Kenya 1.05 GPI 2004 — flat
25 Colombia 1.05 GPI 2017 down 3.8% flat
26 Guyana 1.05 GPI 2011 down 11.4% rising
27 Pakistan 1.05 GPI 2018 up 7.6% falling
28 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.05 GPI 2018 up 1.9% rising
29 Ethiopia 1.05 GPI 2014 up 2.6% rising
30 South Africa 1.05 GPI 2017 up 2.3% flat
31 Senegal 1.04 GPI 2014 up 9.0% rising
32 Namibia 1.04 GPI 2017 up 1.7% flat
33 Viet Nam 1.04 GPI 2014 up 5.6% flat
34 Costa Rica 1.04 GPI 2015 up 2.5% flat
35 Tanzania, United Republic of 1.04 GPI 2018 down 1.4% rising
36 Netherlands 1.04 GPI 1984 up 0.3% flat
37 Solomon Islands 1.04 GPI 2017 up 6.7% rising
38 Panama 1.04 GPI 2013 up 2.8% flat
39 Samoa 1.04 GPI 2018 down 5.1% flat
40 Uganda 1.03 GPI 2016 up 2.4% falling
41 Lebanon 1.03 GPI 2018 up 1.7% flat
42 Philippines 1.03 GPI 2016 down 7.4% flat
43 El Salvador 1.03 GPI 2017 down 1.2% flat
44 Honduras 1.03 GPI 2016 down 4.0% falling
45 Paraguay 1.03 GPI 2011 down 0.4% rising
46 Zimbabwe 1.03 GPI 2012 down 1.1% rising
47 Guatemala 1.03 GPI 2018 up 2.7% flat
48 Malta 1.03 GPI 2014 up 1.5% flat
49 United Arab Emirates 1.03 GPI 2012 up 2.5% falling
50 Dominican Republic 1.03 GPI 2018 down 5.5% falling
51 Botswana 1.02 GPI 2012 down 2.9% falling
52 Thailand 1.02 GPI 2017 — rising
53 Sudan 1.02 GPI 2016 up 4.0% rising
54 Belgium 1.02 GPI 2017 up 0.3% flat
55 Saudi Arabia 1.02 GPI 2016 up 8.1% rising
56 Cameroon 1.02 GPI 2018 down 1.4% rising
57 Cape Verde 1.02 GPI 2015 down 3.6% flat
58 Macau, China 1.02 GPI 2018 up 0.3% flat
59 Brunei Darussalam 1.02 GPI 2018 up 2.1% rising
60 Sri Lanka 1.01 GPI 2016 up 0.8% flat
61 Malaysia 1.01 GPI 2016 down 0.1% flat
62 Fiji 1.01 GPI 2015 up 4.1% flat
63 Jordan 1.01 GPI 2018 down 1.4% rising
64 Côte d'Ivoire 1.01 GPI 2015 up 15.4% rising
65 Hong Kong, China 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.5% flat
66 Morocco 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
67 India 1.01 GPI 2018 up 2.0% rising
68 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.01 GPI 2017 up 1.1% flat
69 Bahrain 1.01 GPI 2018 up 3.4% falling
70 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.01 GPI 2017 down 12.2% falling
71 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1.01 GPI 2016 down 3.4% falling
72 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.5% flat
73 Indonesia 1.01 GPI 2017 down 6.1% rising
74 Slovenia 1.01 GPI 2017 up 1.2% flat
75 Latvia 1.01 GPI 2017 up 4.4% flat
76 Ghana 1.01 GPI 2017 up 5.8% rising
77 Jamaica 1.01 GPI 2018 down 4.2% flat
77 Niger 1.01 GPI 2015 up 8.0% flat
79 Algeria 1.01 GPI 2018 down 2.0% rising
80 Egypt 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.3% rising
81 Cyprus 1.01 GPI 2016 up 0.9% flat
82 Cuba 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.2% falling
83 Sweden 1.01 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
84 Uruguay 1.01 GPI 2015 down 2.6% flat
85 Tunisia 1 GPI 2016 up 0.5% rising
86 Oman 1 GPI 2016 up 0.2% rising
87 Switzerland 1 GPI 2017 — flat
88 Spain 1 GPI 2017 down 0.3% flat
89 Ecuador 1 GPI 2017 down 3.1% flat
90 Argentina 1 GPI 2016 up 0.4% falling
91 Sao Tome and Principe 1 GPI 2010 down 9.2% falling
92 Italy 1 GPI 2017 down 0.1% flat
92 Tonga 1 GPI 2005 down 2.4% flat
94 Chile 1 GPI 2017 up 0.3% flat
95 Maldives 1 GPI 2017 up 2.5% falling
96 Andorra 1 GPI 2016 up 4.7% flat
97 Denmark 1 GPI 2017 down 1.0% flat
98 Czechia 1 GPI 2017 up 0.0% flat
99 Japan 1 GPI 2016 up 0.0% flat
100 Poland 1 GPI 2017 down 0.1% flat
101 Belize 0.9998 GPI 2017 up 0.4% flat
102 Republic of Korea 0.9997 GPI 2017 down 0.5% flat
103 Mexico 0.9994 GPI 2017 down 1.7% flat
104 Estonia 0.9992 GPI 2017 up 1.2% flat
105 Peru 0.9992 GPI 2016 down 0.3% rising
106 Eswatini 0.9988 GPI 2016 down 12.7% flat
107 Luxembourg 0.9987 GPI 2016 down 1.7% flat
108 Georgia 0.9984 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
109 Norway 0.9982 GPI 2017 down 1.0% flat
110 Finland 0.998 GPI 2017 down 0.8% flat
111 Greece 0.9976 GPI 2017 up 0.2% flat
112 Singapore 0.9976 GPI 2017 down 0.4% flat
113 Nepal 0.9962 GPI 2016 down 6.5% flat
114 New Caledonia 0.996 GPI 1989 down 1.6% flat
115 Eritrea 0.9953 GPI 2017 up 12.4% flat
116 Seychelles 0.9935 GPI 2017 up 2.9% flat
117 Albania 0.9912 GPI 2018 down 2.0% flat
118 Qatar 0.9911 GPI 2018 down 7.6% flat
119 Iceland 0.9902 GPI 2017 down 1.5% flat
120 Mauritius 0.9896 GPI 2018 down 3.7% flat
121 Togo 0.9891 GPI 2013 up 6.8% rising
122 Syrian Arab Republic 0.9876 GPI 2001 up 0.5% rising
123 Saint Lucia 0.985 GPI 2018 down 4.8% rising
124 Israel 0.9839 GPI 2017 down 0.3% flat
125 Türkiye 0.983 GPI 2011 down 1.0% flat
126 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.981 GPI 2016 down 1.3% flat
127 Libya 0.9796 GPI 1980 up 8.9% flat
128 Central African Republic 0.9795 GPI 2011 — rising
129 Zambia 0.9689 GPI 2012 up 3.0% rising
130 Papua New Guinea 0.966 GPI 1997 down 2.3% flat
131 Mozambique 0.9652 GPI 2018 up 1.7% rising
132 Vanuatu 0.9591 GPI 2008 down 3.4% flat
133 Guinea 0.9563 GPI 2013 up 9.8% rising
134 Benin 0.9487 GPI 2018 down 0.7% flat
135 Yemen 0.9412 GPI 2012 up 6.0% rising
136 Iraq 0.9392 GPI 1999 up 19.4% flat
137 Barbados 0.9318 GPI 2010 down 4.0% falling
138 Mali 0.9211 GPI 2011 up 2.3% flat
139 Dominica 0.8685 GPI 2014 down 9.9% flat
140 Kiribati 0.8673 GPI 2005 down 18.8% rising
141 Guinea-Bissau 0.8446 GPI 1987 up 45.0% rising

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Indicator
Survival rate to Grade 5 of primary education, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
141 places, 2,700 data points, 1970–2018
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Ratio of female survival rate to grade 5 to the male survival rate to grade 5. 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.