Afghanistan's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group) was 110.78% in 2018, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 5.66 percentage points from 116.44% in 2013.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 110.78% | 2018 |
| Five years earlier | 116.44% | 2013 |
| Highest | 187.76% | 2003 |
| Lowest | 17.31% | 1982 |
| Average since 2009 | 111.1% | 2009–2018 |
| First recorded | 32.44% | 1974 |
Over five years it is down 5.66 percentage points from 116.44% in 2013. Since 1974 it is up 78.33 percentage points from 32.44% in 1974. The World Bank has no value for 23 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 12.22 percentage points in 1981 and the biggest yearly fall was 43.42 percentage points in 1982. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2009 to 2018 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 8% of the movement over 8 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2018, Afghanistan had the 18th highest value of the 80 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 110.78% | 2018 |
| World | 105.12% | 2018 |
| Low income | 124.33% | 2018 |
Closest to Afghanistan in the 2018 ranking
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 15th of 80: 113.39%
- Namibia — 16th of 80: 113.31%
- Burkina Faso — 17th of 80: 111.1%
- Costa Rica — 19th of 80: 110.77%
- Morocco — 20th of 80: 109.84%
- Tanzania — 21st of 80: 109.15%
What this measures
Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education is the number of new entrants in the first grade of primary education regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the official primary entrance age.
Limitations: The quality of data is affected when new entrants and repeaters are not correctly distinguished in the first grade of primary education. Caution is also needed for countries with a total population under 100,000 since the United Nations Population Division neither publish nor endorse single-age data for those countries. The data are highly subject to fluctuations in migration and other factors.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 22 values
| Year | Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 110.78 |
| 2017 | no data |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 | 108.48 |
| 2014 | 112.24 |
| 2013 | 116.44 |
| 2012 | 117.04 |
| 2011 | 112.33 |
| 2010 | 108.96 |
| 2009 | 102.55 |
Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies
- Algeria — 101.88% (2018)
- Bahrain — 89.16% (2018)
- Djibouti — 77.45% (2019)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 101.78% (2018)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 105.02% (2017)
- Israel — 103.83% (2017)
- Jordan — 80.97% (2018)
- Kuwait
More education data for Afghanistan
- Primary school starting age (years) — 7 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 13 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, pupils — 7.51 million (2023)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 112.23% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 97.87% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 125.93% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 0.67 (2019)
- Primary education, pupils (% female)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Afghanistan's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group)?
- 110.78% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1974?
- It is up 78.33 percentage points from 32.44% in 1974. The highest value was 187.76% in 2003 and the lowest 17.31% in 1982.
- How does Afghanistan rank?
- 18th highest of 80 economies with data for 2018.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.GINT.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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