Burkina Faso's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) was 44.12% in 2018, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.9 percentage points from 43.22% in 2008.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 44.12% | 2018 |
| Five years earlier | 29.44% | 2013 |
| Ten years earlier | 43.22% | 2008 |
| Highest | 46.23% | 2017 |
| Lowest | 16.56% | 2011 |
| Average since 2009 | 30.66% | 2009–2018 |
| First recorded | 19.71% | 1999 |
What the numbers say
In 2018, Burkina Faso's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) fell 2.11 percentage points on 2017 (from 46.23% to 44.12%).
Across the 14 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2017), the average change was +0.69 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.78 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations below 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 11.15 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 14.37 percentage points in 2010. 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 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.29 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 50% of the movement over 8 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2018, Burkina Faso had the 32nd highest value of the 34 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | 44.12% | 2018 |
| World | 69.91% | 2018 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 56.68% | 2018 |
| Low income | 63.89% | 2018 |
Closest to Burkina Faso in the 2018 ranking
- Oman — 28th of 34: 55.33%
- Timor-Leste — 29th of 34: 52.5%
- Niger — 30th of 34: 50%
- Indonesia — 32nd of 34: 40.55%
- Mauritania — 33rd of 34: 36.65%
- Eritrea — 34th of 34: 28.02%
What this measures
Net intake rate in grade 1 is the number of new entrants in the first grade of primary education who are of official primary school entrance age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the corresponding 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 18 values
| Year | Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 44.12 |
| 2017 | 46.23 |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 | 27.01 |
| 2014 | no data |
| 2013 | 29.44 |
| 2012 | 27.71 |
| 2011 | 16.56 |
| 2010 | 19.92 |
| 2009 | 34.29 |
| 2008 |
Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies
- Burundi — 57.62% (2018)
- Cabo Verde — 97.06% (2018)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 73.32% (2018)
- Eritrea — 28.02% (2018)
- Eswatini — 38.41% (2016)
- Guinea — 58.65% (2016)
- Lesotho — 70.6% (2016)
- Madagascar — 70.75% (2018)
- Mali
More education data for Burkina Faso
- 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 — 3.07 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 77.17% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 78.3% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 76.06% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers — 91,764 (2024)
- Primary education, teachers (% female)
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Questions people ask
- What is Burkina Faso's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?
- 44.12% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1999?
- It is up 24.41 percentage points from 19.71% in 1999. The highest value was 46.23% in 2017 and the lowest 16.56% in 2011.
- How does Burkina Faso rank?
- 32nd highest of 34 economies with data for 2018.
- Is the latest change in net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) unusual for Burkina Faso?
- In 2018, Burkina Faso's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) fell 2.11 percentage points on 2017 (from 46.23% to 44.12%). Across the 14 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2017), the average change was +0.69 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.78 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.NINT.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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