Total net attendance rate, upper secondary education, rural, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

February 2026 Data Release

Countries reporting
34
Highest
1.28 GPIA
Lesotho
Lowest
0.5949 GPIA
Cameroon
Median
1.01 GPIA
Years covered
25
2000–2024
Data points
402

What the numbers show

Total net attendance rate, upper secondary education, rural, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 1.28 GPIA in Lesotho; the lowest is 0.5949 GPIA in Cameroon.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.01 GPIA, and the mean is 0.9776 GPIA.

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

Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Gambia (up 91.9%), and the largest decrease in Uruguay (down 23.3%).

Total net attendance rate, upper secondary education, rural, adjusted: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Lesotho 1.28 GPIA 2023 up 14.1% rising
2 Gambia 1.21 GPIA 2023 up 91.9% rising
3 El Salvador 1.15 GPIA 2023 up 28.8% rising
4 Mexico 1.14 GPIA 2022 up 23.4% rising
5 Costa Rica 1.14 GPIA 2024 up 6.7% flat
6 Honduras 1.12 GPIA 2024 down 8.8% flat
7 Nigeria 1.09 GPIA 2024 up 72.1% rising
8 Kyrgyzstan 1.09 GPIA 2023 up 15.7% flat
9 Paraguay 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 1.2% rising
10 Senegal 1.05 GPIA 2023 up 65.9% rising
11 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 12.8% rising
12 Colombia 1.04 GPIA 2023 up 0.2% falling
13 Dominican Republic 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 2.9% flat
14 Kenya 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 5.4% rising
15 Chile 1.02 GPIA 2022 down 0.7% flat
16 Panama 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 3.0% falling
17 Brazil 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.6% flat
18 Armenia 1.01 GPIA 2023 down 7.5% falling
19 Ghana 1 GPIA 2024 up 14.3% flat
20 Ecuador 0.9879 GPIA 2024 up 5.9% flat
21 Guatemala 0.9871 GPIA 2024 up 24.4% rising
22 Bangladesh 0.9832 GPIA 2022 up 17.0% rising
23 Peru 0.9805 GPIA 2023 up 2.1% rising
24 South Africa 0.9804 GPIA 2024 down 0.6% flat
25 Uruguay 0.9552 GPIA 2024 down 23.3% falling
26 Ethiopia 0.9434 GPIA 2022 up 10.4% rising
27 Nepal 0.936 GPIA 2022 up 4.9% rising
28 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.8942 GPIA 2024 up 37.2% rising
29 Côte d'Ivoire 0.7554 GPIA 2022 up 87.1% rising
30 Benin 0.7024 GPIA 2021 up 12.9% rising
31 Mali 0.6935 GPIA 2024 down 0.7% rising
32 Togo 0.6828 GPIA 2021 up 9.3% rising
33 Zambia 0.6522 GPIA 2023 up 13.1% rising
34 Cameroon 0.5949 GPIA 2018 up 22.6% rising

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About this data

Indicator
Total net attendance rate, upper secondary education, rural, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
34 places, 402 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release