Education · Barbados
Yearly data from 1983 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Barbados's adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) was 3.01% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.35 percentage points from 1.66% in 2019.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.01% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 1.66% | 2019 |
| Highest | 7.54% | 2010 |
| Lowest | 1.66% | 2019 |
| Average since 2019 | 3.55% | 2019–2024 |
| First recorded | 2.22% | 1983 |
Over five years it is up 1.35 percentage points from 1.66% in 2019. Since 1983 it is up 0.79 percentage points from 2.22% in 1983. The World Bank has no value for 28 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2024, Barbados' adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) rose 1.33 percentage points on 2023 (from 1.67% to 3.01%).
Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2004 to 2023), the average change was −0.73 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.83 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.41 percentage points in 2020 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.63 percentage points in 2011. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2024, Barbados had the 49th highest value of the 67 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Barbados | 3.01% | 2024 |
| High income | 1.8% | 2025 |
Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.
Limitations: The administrative data used in the calculation of the rate of out-of-school children are based on enrolment at a specific date which can bias the results by either counting enrolled children who never attend school or by omitting those who enroll after the reference date for reporting enrolment data. Furthermore, children who drop out of school after the reference date are not counted as out of school. Discrepancies between enrolment and population data from different sources can also result in over- or underestimates of the rate.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.01 |
| 2023 | 1.67 |
| 2022 | 3.05 |
| 2021 | 5.83 |
| 2020 | 6.07 |
| 2019 | 1.66 |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | no data |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 | no data |
| 2014 | no data |
| 2013 | no data |
| 2012 | no data |
| 2011 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 7.54 |
| 2009 | 4.96 |
| 2008 | 7.27 |
| 2007 | no data |
| 2006 | no data |
| 2005 | no data |
| 2004 | 4.65 |
| 2003 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | no data |
| 2001 | no data |
| 2000 | no data |
| 1999 | no data |
| 1998 | no data |
| 1997 | no data |
| 1996 | no data |
| 1995 | no data |
| 1994 | no data |
| 1993 | no data |
| 1992 | no data |
| 1991 | no data |
| 1990 | no data |
| 1989 | 6.53 |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | no data |
| 1986 | no data |
| 1985 | no data |
| 1984 | no data |
| 1983 | 2.22 |
Every indicator for Barbados is on the Barbados data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.UNER.LO.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. 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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