Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

February 2026 Data Release

Countries reporting
163
Highest
1.67 GPIA
Cape Verde
Lowest
0.6192 GPIA
Central African Republic
Median
1 GPIA
Years covered
56
1970–2025
Data points
2,544

What the numbers show

Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 163 countries. The highest value is 1.67 GPIA in Cape Verde; the lowest is 0.6192 GPIA in Central African Republic.

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

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 99 countries rose and 57 fell. The largest increase was in Cape Verde (up 61.0%), and the largest decrease in Kiribati (down 12.5%).

Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, adjusted gender parity: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Cape Verde 1.67 GPIA 2022 up 61.0% rising
1 Tokelau 1.12 GPIA 2025 up 12.2% rising
2 Jamaica 1.33 GPIA 2024 up 26.5% rising
2 Cook Islands 0.9757 GPIA 2015 falling
3 Senegal 1.25 GPIA 2024 up 17.9% rising
4 Bangladesh 1.24 GPIA 2024 up 5.3% rising
5 Suriname 1.22 GPIA 2024 up 18.8% rising
6 Gambia 1.21 GPIA 2025 up 14.3% rising
7 Burkina Faso 1.17 GPIA 2024 up 20.6% rising
8 Kuwait 1.17 GPIA 2021 up 14.1% rising
9 Bhutan 1.16 GPIA 2024 down 1.9% rising
10 Sierra Leone 1.14 GPIA 2023 up 18.6% rising
11 Tanzania, United Republic of 1.12 GPIA 2024 up 10.0% rising
12 Syrian Arab Republic 1.11 GPIA 2024 up 15.1% rising
13 Saint Lucia 1.11 GPIA 2024 up 12.4% flat
14 Lesotho 1.1 GPIA 2024 up 0.5% falling
15 Mauritania 1.09 GPIA 2024 up 15.3% rising
16 Comoros 1.08 GPIA 2024 up 3.4% flat
17 Myanmar 1.07 GPIA 2018 up 2.3% rising
18 Burundi 1.07 GPIA 2025 down 1.1% rising
19 Malawi 1.06 GPIA 2024 up 9.2% rising
20 Malaysia 1.06 GPIA 2024 down 1.4% rising
21 Timor-Leste 1.06 GPIA 2020 up 5.5% rising
22 Cambodia 1.06 GPIA 2024 up 9.0% rising
23 Honduras 1.06 GPIA 2024 up 1.5% flat
24 Indonesia 1.06 GPIA 2023 up 4.7% rising
25 Lebanon 1.06 GPIA 2024 up 2.2% flat
26 Madagascar 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 4.5% rising
27 Tonga 1.05 GPIA 2024 down 1.0% rising
28 Naoero 1.05 GPIA 2025 up 2.7% flat
29 El Salvador 1.05 GPIA 2024 up 3.4% rising
30 Rwanda 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 7.4% flat
31 Liberia 1.04 GPIA 2022 up 17.8% rising
32 Côte d'Ivoire 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 28.2% rising
33 Dominican Republic 1.04 GPIA 2024 up 5.8% flat
34 Solomon Islands 1.04 GPIA 2023 up 2.1% rising
35 Namibia 1.03 GPIA 2018 down 2.3% flat
36 Mongolia 1.03 GPIA 2023 down 1.4% falling
37 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 1.03 GPIA 2017 down 1.8% flat
38 Mauritius 1.03 GPIA 2024 down 5.1% flat
39 Zimbabwe 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 8.7% rising
40 Mexico 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 2.2% rising
41 Ethiopia 1.03 GPIA 2024 up 7.1% rising
42 Sao Tome and Principe 1.02 GPIA 2015 up 3.2% rising
43 Trinidad and Tobago 1.02 GPIA 2024 rising
44 Puerto Rico 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 0.2% flat
45 India 1.02 GPIA 2025 down 1.8% flat
46 United Arab Emirates 1.02 GPIA 2021 flat
47 Cyprus 1.02 GPIA 2017 up 1.0% flat
48 Ecuador 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 1.9% rising
49 Brunei Darussalam 1.02 GPIA 2018 falling
50 Micronesia, Federated States of 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 2.3% flat
51 Kyrgyzstan 1.02 GPIA 2025 up 2.4% rising
52 South Africa 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 7.6% flat
53 Thailand 1.02 GPIA 2025 down 7.2% rising
54 Sri Lanka 1.02 GPIA 2023 up 0.2% flat
55 Panama 1.02 GPIA 2023 down 0.2% flat
56 Bahrain 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 2.9% flat
57 Cayman Islands 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 1.9% flat
58 Maldives 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 5.9% flat
59 Bahamas 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 0.9% flat
60 Philippines 1.02 GPIA 2024 down 3.2% falling
61 Belize 1.02 GPIA 2024 up 1.4% flat
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.02 GPIA 2021 up 0.0% flat
63 Colombia 1.01 GPIA 2022 up 0.5% flat
64 Palestine, State of 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 2.6% flat
65 Qatar 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.9% falling
66 Russian Federation 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 0.2% flat
67 Tuvalu 1.01 GPIA 2020 down 7.8% falling
68 Ukraine 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 0.0% flat
69 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.01 GPIA 2025 up 4.4% rising
70 Egypt 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 0.7% rising
71 Paraguay 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.8% rising
72 United States of America 1.01 GPIA 2022 up 0.7% flat
73 Botswana 1.01 GPIA 2022 down 2.6% falling
74 Luxembourg 1.01 GPIA 2024 down 1.6% flat
75 Iran, Islamic Republic of 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 0.8% flat
76 Oman 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% rising
77 Germany 1.01 GPIA 2023 up 0.3% flat
77 Lithuania 1.01 GPIA 2015 up 0.5% flat
79 Latvia 1.01 GPIA 2024 up 0.6% flat
80 Peru 1.01 GPIA 2021 up 6.4% rising
81 Niger 1 GPIA 2024 up 33.6% rising
82 Uruguay 1 GPIA 2023 down 0.4% flat
83 Netherlands 1 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
84 San Marino 1 GPIA 2024 down 2.3% flat
85 France 1 GPIA 2022 down 0.2% flat
86 Vanuatu 1 GPIA 2024 rising
87 Macau, China 1 GPIA 2024 down 1.9% flat
88 Switzerland 1 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% flat
89 Slovenia 1 GPIA 2023 up 0.0% flat
90 New Zealand 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.1% flat
91 Australia 1 GPIA 2024 flat
92 Belarus 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.3% flat
93 Poland 1 GPIA 2020 up 0.1% flat
94 Slovakia 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.0% flat
95 Finland 1 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% flat
96 Denmark 1 GPIA 2024 down 0.2% flat
97 Hungary 1 GPIA 2024 up 0.3% flat
98 Greece 1 GPIA 2023 up 1.4% flat
99 Andorra 0.9999 GPIA 2024 up 3.9% flat
100 Sweden 0.9998 GPIA 2024 up 0.1% flat
101 Montenegro 0.9995 GPIA 2021 down 0.5% flat
102 Malta 0.9993 GPIA 2023 up 0.2% flat
103 Czechia 0.9993 GPIA 2023 down 0.2% flat
104 Uzbekistan 0.9991 GPIA 2025 up 0.4% flat
105 Austria 0.9991 GPIA 2024 down 0.3% flat
106 Estonia 0.9985 GPIA 2024 down 0.4% flat
107 Morocco 0.9984 GPIA 2024 up 5.9% rising
108 Italy 0.9983 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
109 Belgium 0.9982 GPIA 2023 up 0.1% flat
110 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.9982 GPIA 2023 down 0.1% flat
111 Spain 0.998 GPIA 2024 down 0.5% flat
112 Costa Rica 0.9977 GPIA 2024 up 0.4% flat
113 Republic of Korea 0.9974 GPIA 2024 up 0.1% flat
114 Samoa 0.9972 GPIA 2014 up 3.1% flat
115 Norway 0.997 GPIA 2024 down 0.2% flat
116 Bulgaria 0.9968 GPIA 2024 up 1.1% flat
117 Iceland 0.9964 GPIA 2023 down 0.2% flat
118 Israel 0.9963 GPIA 2024 up 0.4% flat
119 Romania 0.996 GPIA 2023 up 0.2% flat
120 Nepal 0.9952 GPIA 2024 down 6.3% falling
121 Cuba 0.9938 GPIA 2024 up 1.4% flat
122 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.9916 GPIA 2024 down 0.4% rising
123 Kiribati 0.9905 GPIA 2024 down 12.5% flat
124 Brazil 0.9884 GPIA 2024 down 1.8% flat
125 Azerbaijan 0.9867 GPIA 2024 up 1.1% flat
126 Algeria 0.9865 GPIA 2025 up 0.7% rising
127 Chile 0.9861 GPIA 2022 down 1.0% flat
128 Barbados 0.985 GPIA 2024 down 5.9% flat
129 British Virgin Islands 0.9849 GPIA 2024 up 1.0% flat
130 Kazakhstan 0.9842 GPIA 2025 down 2.5% flat
131 Fiji 0.9833 GPIA 2016 down 3.4% flat
132 Türkiye 0.9826 GPIA 2023 down 1.5% rising
133 Jordan 0.9814 GPIA 2024 down 5.5% flat
134 Armenia 0.979 GPIA 2024 up 0.2% flat
135 Kenya 0.9761 GPIA 2006 down 4.4% falling
136 Hong Kong, China 0.9731 GPIA 2021 down 0.5% flat
137 Eswatini 0.9728 GPIA 2022 up 1.3% rising
138 Guatemala 0.9703 GPIA 2024 up 8.3% rising
139 Togo 0.9702 GPIA 2024 up 11.2% rising
140 Liechtenstein 0.9696 GPIA 2021 up 4.0% flat
141 Angola 0.966 GPIA 2023 up 25.8% rising
142 Guyana 0.964 GPIA 2023 down 4.4% flat
143 Viet Nam 0.9632 GPIA 2023 down 2.7% flat
144 Grenada 0.9606 GPIA 2014 down 3.5% flat
145 Ghana 0.9553 GPIA 2024 down 1.7% rising
146 Papua New Guinea 0.9536 GPIA 2023 up 1.6% rising
147 Serbia 0.9533 GPIA 2024 down 3.3% flat
148 Cameroon 0.9323 GPIA 2023 up 8.7% rising
149 Albania 0.9319 GPIA 2023 down 4.7% flat
150 Nicaragua 0.9045 GPIA 2023 down 9.6% falling
151 Dominica 0.901 GPIA 2023 down 4.6% falling
152 Mozambique 0.8946 GPIA 2022 up 6.6% rising
153 Mali 0.8624 GPIA 2018 up 25.3% rising
154 Yemen 0.8554 GPIA 2016 up 25.4% rising
155 Eritrea 0.85 GPIA 2022 up 7.6% flat
156 Libya 0.8185 GPIA 1983 up 12.0% rising
157 Chad 0.7896 GPIA 2024 up 26.7% rising
158 Iraq 0.7484 GPIA 2007 up 15.0% rising
159 Tunisia 0.7469 GPIA 1985 up 27.5% rising
160 Guinea 0.7112 GPIA 2014 up 20.7% rising
161 Central African Republic 0.6192 GPIA 2012 rising

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Indicator
Total net enrolment rate, lower secondary, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
163 places, 2,544 data points, 1970–2025
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February 2026 Data Release