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Total net enrolment rate, primary, gender parity index (GPI) by country

Ratio of female total net enrolment rate for primary to the male total net enrolment rate for primary. 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...

Countries reporting
189
Highest
1.22 GPI
Kuwait
Lowest
0.6097 GPI
Somalia
Median
1 GPI
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
4,343

What the numbers show

Total net enrolment rate, primary, gender parity index (GPI) is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 1.22 GPI in Kuwait; the lowest is 0.6097 GPI in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 1 GPI, and the mean is 0.9948 GPI.

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

Over the past decade 115 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Guinea-Bissau (up 34.6%), and the largest decrease in Nauru (down 14.0%).

Total net enrolment rate, primary, gender parity index (GPI): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Kuwait 1.22 GPI 2019 up 25.1% rising
2 Senegal 1.14 GPI 2019 up 8.4% rising
3 Gambia 1.12 GPI 2019 up 3.7% rising
4 Bangladesh 1.11 GPI 2010 up 4.9% rising
5 San Marino 1.1 GPI 2019 up 10.3% flat
6 Congo 1.09 GPI 2012 down 8.8% rising
7 Kiribati 1.08 GPI 2017 — rising
8 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.06 GPI 2018 up 9.9% flat
9 Oman 1.06 GPI 2019 up 10.3% rising
10 Hong Kong 1.05 GPI 2019 up 4.3% flat
11 Mauritania 1.05 GPI 2019 up 1.3% rising
12 Seychelles 1.05 GPI 2019 up 6.4% flat
13 Madagascar 1.05 GPI 2019 — rising
14 Zambia 1.05 GPI 2017 up 4.8% rising
15 Kenya 1.04 GPI 2012 up 13.5% flat
16 Tanzania 1.04 GPI 2019 up 4.4% flat
17 Albania 1.04 GPI 2019 up 3.5% rising
18 East Timor 1.04 GPI 2019 up 8.4% rising
19 Malawi 1.04 GPI 2019 up 0.2% flat
20 Suriname 1.04 GPI 2019 down 1.4% flat
21 Burundi 1.04 GPI 2019 up 2.0% rising
22 Saint Lucia 1.03 GPI 2019 up 6.3% flat
23 Croatia 1.03 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
24 Qatar 1.03 GPI 2019 down 1.1% rising
25 Namibia 1.03 GPI 2018 down 0.2% flat
26 Uganda 1.03 GPI 2013 — rising
27 Bhutan 1.03 GPI 2020 down 0.7% rising
28 Azerbaijan 1.03 GPI 2019 up 4.9% flat
29 Turks and Caicos Islands 1.03 GPI 2018 up 1.9% flat
30 Puerto Rico 1.03 GPI 2018 down 3.1% flat
31 British Virgin Islands 1.03 GPI 2018 down 0.5% flat
32 Mauritius 1.03 GPI 2019 up 1.3% flat
33 Sierra Leone 1.03 GPI 2019 up 3.5% rising
34 Vietnam 1.03 GPI 2019 up 1.2% flat
35 Ecuador 1.03 GPI 2018 down 0.6% flat
36 Nicaragua 1.03 GPI 2010 down 0.6% flat
37 Maldives 1.03 GPI 2019 up 4.7% flat
38 Bahamas 1.02 GPI 2018 up 3.2% flat
39 Equatorial Guinea 1.02 GPI 2015 up 12.0% rising
40 Tonga 1.02 GPI 2015 up 4.8% flat
41 Gibraltar 1.02 GPI 2019 — falling
42 Ukraine 1.02 GPI 2014 up 2.6% flat
43 Samoa 1.02 GPI 2019 up 2.7% flat
44 Tunisia 1.02 GPI 2018 down 0.2% rising
45 South Africa 1.02 GPI 2018 down 0.3% flat
46 Kazakhstan 1.02 GPI 2019 up 1.6% flat
47 India 1.02 GPI 2013 up 3.3% rising
48 Grenada 1.02 GPI 2018 up 1.1% flat
49 Egypt 1.01 GPI 2019 up 1.0% rising
50 Mexico 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.5% flat
51 Antigua and Barbuda 1.01 GPI 2018 up 2.7% rising
52 Germany 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.6% flat
53 Botswana 1.01 GPI 2014 up 1.1% falling
54 Georgia 1.01 GPI 2019 up 0.4% flat
55 French Polynesia 1.01 GPI 1996 up 1.7% flat
56 Brunei 1.01 GPI 2019 up 1.9% flat
57 Colombia 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.2% falling
58 Zimbabwe 1.01 GPI 2013 down 0.4% rising
59 Belize 1.01 GPI 2019 up 1.3% flat
60 Dominica 1.01 GPI 2019 down 2.7% flat
61 Malta 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.5% flat
62 Latvia 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.9% flat
63 El Salvador 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.8% flat
64 Dominican Republic 1.01 GPI 2019 up 10.0% flat
65 Vanuatu 1.01 GPI 2015 up 2.7% flat
66 Lesotho 1.01 GPI 2017 down 2.4% falling
67 Morocco 1.01 GPI 2019 up 2.7% rising
68 Czechia 1.01 GPI 2018 up 2.2% flat
69 Ghana 1.01 GPI 2019 up 0.3% flat
70 Netherlands 1.01 GPI 2018 up 1.2% flat
71 Denmark 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
72 Liberia 1.01 GPI 2017 down 2.0% rising
73 Malaysia 1.01 GPI 2017 down 1.3% rising
74 Poland 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.8% flat
75 Israel 1.01 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
76 Guatemala 1.01 GPI 2019 up 1.9% rising
77 New Zealand 1.01 GPI 2018 down 0.1% flat
78 Solomon Islands 1.01 GPI 2018 up 3.6% flat
79 Spain 1 GPI 2018 up 0.5% flat
80 Slovenia 1 GPI 2018 up 0.6% flat
81 Greece 1 GPI 2018 up 2.1% flat
82 Belgium 1 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
83 Lithuania 1 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
84 Finland 1 GPI 2018 up 0.5% flat
85 Rwanda 1 GPI 2019 — rising
86 Slovakia 1 GPI 2018 up 0.3% flat
87 Liechtenstein 1 GPI 2018 up 0.0% rising
88 Uruguay 1 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
89 Estonia 1 GPI 2018 up 1.2% flat
90 Bulgaria 1 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
91 Paraguay 1 GPI 2012 down 0.8% flat
92 France 1 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
93 Armenia 1 GPI 2019 down 2.4% flat
94 Jamaica 1 GPI 2019 down 0.7% flat
95 Palestine 1 GPI 2019 up 0.1% flat
96 Sao Tome and Principe 1 GPI 2017 down 1.6% flat
97 Venezuela 1 GPI 2017 down 0.6% flat
98 Norway 1 GPI 2018 down 0.3% flat
99 Ireland 1 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
100 Montenegro 0.9999 GPI 2019 down 1.1% flat
101 Cambodia 0.9996 GPI 2019 up 3.9% rising
101 South Korea 0.9996 GPI 2018 down 0.1% flat
103 Comoros 0.9996 GPI 2018 up 7.5% rising
104 Australia 0.9992 GPI 2018 down 1.8% flat
105 Austria 0.9991 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
106 Iceland 0.9988 GPI 2018 down 0.9% flat
106 United States 0.9988 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
108 Aruba 0.9984 GPI 2014 up 3.1% flat
109 Switzerland 0.9983 GPI 2018 down 0.7% flat
110 Serbia 0.9982 GPI 2019 up 0.7% flat
111 North Macedonia 0.9982 GPI 2018 up 0.7% flat
112 Hungary 0.998 GPI 2018 up 0.1% flat
113 Bolivia 0.9977 GPI 2018 down 0.7% flat
114 Romania 0.9974 GPI 2018 up 0.2% flat
115 Sweden 0.9974 GPI 2018 up 0.5% flat
116 Costa Rica 0.9973 GPI 2019 down 0.3% flat
117 Cuba 0.9971 GPI 2019 up 0.4% flat
118 United Kingdom 0.997 GPI 2018 down 0.1% flat
119 Russia 0.9966 GPI 2018 down 1.1% flat
120 Italy 0.9966 GPI 2018 up 0.9% flat
121 Canada 0.9957 GPI 2018 down 1.5% flat
122 Thailand 0.9954 GPI 2009 — rising
123 Iran 0.9953 GPI 2017 up 0.3% rising
124 Cyprus 0.9952 GPI 2018 up 0.4% flat
125 Philippines 0.994 GPI 2018 down 3.9% flat
126 Brazil 0.994 GPI 2011 up 3.7% flat
127 Turkey 0.9939 GPI 2018 up 1.7% rising
128 Chile 0.9933 GPI 2018 up 0.5% flat
129 Trinidad and Tobago 0.9932 GPI 2010 down 1.0% flat
130 Panama 0.9929 GPI 2017 up 0.4% flat
131 Algeria 0.992 GPI 2019 up 1.3% rising
132 Macao 0.9919 GPI 2019 down 2.1% flat
133 Portugal 0.9915 GPI 2018 up 1.4% flat
134 Argentina 0.9912 GPI 2017 down 0.6% flat
135 Bahrain 0.9901 GPI 2019 down 3.2% rising
136 Kyrgyzstan 0.9899 GPI 2019 down 1.1% flat
137 Sri Lanka 0.9891 GPI 2018 down 0.2% flat
138 Tajikistan 0.9887 GPI 2017 up 2.3% rising
139 Uzbekistan 0.9872 GPI 2019 up 0.2% flat
140 Burkina Faso 0.9858 GPI 2019 up 11.4% rising
141 Mongolia 0.9855 GPI 2018 down 0.9% flat
142 Nauru 0.9853 GPI 2019 down 14.0% rising
143 Saudi Arabia 0.9845 GPI 2016 up 0.2% rising
144 Belarus 0.9844 GPI 2018 down 0.2% flat
145 Jordan 0.9842 GPI 2019 down 2.6% rising
146 Laos 0.9819 GPI 2019 up 2.7% rising
147 Togo 0.9817 GPI 2019 up 10.6% rising
148 Cape Verde 0.9814 GPI 2018 down 0.0% flat
149 Moldova 0.9812 GPI 2019 down 0.5% flat
150 Cayman Islands 0.9807 GPI 2018 up 0.0% rising
151 Luxembourg 0.9797 GPI 2018 down 2.9% flat
152 Eswatini 0.9791 GPI 2018 down 1.1% falling
153 China 0.979 GPI 1997 up 6.4% rising
154 Syria 0.9785 GPI 2013 up 1.2% rising
155 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.9784 GPI 2016 down 1.4% flat
156 Sudan 0.9784 GPI 2017 up 10.0% rising
157 Barbados 0.9783 GPI 2019 down 3.6% flat
158 Marshall Islands 0.9773 GPI 2019 up 0.8% flat
159 Haiti 0.975 GPI 1997 down 2.9% flat
160 United Arab Emirates 0.9746 GPI 2017 down 3.6% flat
161 Mozambique 0.9734 GPI 2019 up 4.5% rising
162 Fiji 0.9712 GPI 2019 down 3.4% flat
163 Honduras 0.9655 GPI 2019 down 5.3% flat
164 Peru 0.9642 GPI 2019 down 4.4% rising
165 Guyana 0.9642 GPI 2012 down 2.3% flat
166 Myanmar 0.9608 GPI 2018 down 3.0% rising
167 Libya 0.9605 GPI 1983 up 17.3% rising
168 Bermuda 0.9559 GPI 2012 down 9.2% flat
169 Djibouti 0.9559 GPI 2020 down 4.7% rising
170 Indonesia 0.9525 GPI 2018 down 3.0% rising
171 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.9515 GPI 1999 up 22.2% rising
172 Guinea-Bissau 0.9502 GPI 2010 up 34.6% rising
173 Benin 0.9365 GPI 2019 up 6.0% rising
174 Cote d'Ivoire 0.9313 GPI 2019 up 12.9% rising
175 Ethiopia 0.929 GPI 2015 up 3.5% rising
176 Nepal 0.9262 GPI 2019 down 6.1% rising
177 Eritrea 0.9125 GPI 2018 up 2.9% flat
178 Cameroon 0.9092 GPI 2019 up 3.5% rising
179 Mali 0.8992 GPI 2018 up 9.4% rising
180 Iraq 0.8837 GPI 2007 down 0.3% rising
181 Yemen 0.8794 GPI 2016 up 15.8% rising
182 Niger 0.8783 GPI 2019 up 12.0% rising
183 Pakistan 0.8513 GPI 2016 up 7.6% rising
184 Nigeria 0.8365 GPI 2010 down 0.2% flat
185 Guinea 0.8265 GPI 2016 down 2.4% rising
186 Central African Republic 0.8013 GPI 2012 up 8.4% rising
187 Chad 0.7855 GPI 2019 up 2.7% rising
188 Angola 0.7783 GPI 2011 down 9.6% falling
189 Somalia 0.6097 GPI 1980 — flat

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Indicator
Total net enrolment rate, primary, gender parity index (GPI)
Unit
GPI
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
189 places, 4,343 data points, 1970–2020
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Ratio of female total net enrolment rate for primary to the male total net enrolment rate for primary. 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.