Benin: Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 4.65 percentage points from 38.48% in 2011. Since 1971 it is up 20.67 percentage points from 13.16% in 1971. The World Bank has no value for 28 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2016, Benin's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) rose 0.23 percentage points on 2015 (from 33.6% to 33.83%).

Across the 10 yearly changes before that (1974 to 2015), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.87 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 17.1 percentage points in 2004 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.33 percentage points in 2003. 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.

How it compares

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Closest to Benin in the 2016 ranking

• Tunisia — 4th of 9: 36.71%
• Cameroon — 5th of 9: 36.6%
• Eswatini — 6th of 9: 34.07%
• Papua New Guinea — 8th of 9: 30.82%
• Yemen, Rep. — 9th of 9: 14.86%

What this measures

Secondary vocational pupils are the number of secondary students enrolled in technical and vocational education programs, including teacher training.

Limitations: The percentage of female enrollment is limited in assessing gender parity, because it's affected by the gender composition of population. Ratio of female to male in enrollment rate provides a population adjusted measure of gender parity.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 18 values

Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) in nearby economies

• Angola — 42.35% (2016)
• Burkina Faso — 39.14% (2018)
• Burundi — 47.71% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 39.11% (2018)
• Cameroon — 36.6% (2016)
• Central African Republic — 42.14% (2017)
• Chad — 37.2% (2016)
• Comoros — 8.29% (2017)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 35.35% (2015)
• Côte d'Ivoire

More education data for Benin

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 2.4 million (2022)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 108.04% (2022)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 103.91% (2022)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 112.06% (2022)
• Primary education, teachers — 59,742 (2022)
• School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 10.24% (2022)

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Questions people ask

What is Benin's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)?

33.83% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is up 20.67 percentage points from 13.16% in 1971. The highest value was 41.87% in 2004 and the lowest 8.84% in 1977.

Is the latest change in secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) unusual for Benin?

In 2016, Benin's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) rose 0.23 percentage points on 2015 (from 33.6% to 33.83%). Across the 10 yearly changes before that (1974 to 2015), the average change was +0.01 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.87 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.ENRL.VO.FE.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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