Cameroon: Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2016, Cameroon's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) fell 0.41 percentage points on 2015 (from 37.01% to 36.6%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1975 to 2015), the average change was +0.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.99 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 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 2.25 percentage points in 1977 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.19 percentage points in 2008. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2007 to 2016 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.32 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 59% of the movement over 9 observed 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 Cameroon in the 2016 ranking

• Angola — 2nd of 9: 42.35%
• Chad — 3rd of 9: 37.2%
• Tunisia — 4th of 9: 36.71%
• Eswatini — 6th of 9: 34.07%
• Benin — 7th of 9: 33.83%
• Papua New Guinea — 8th of 9: 30.82%

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 40 values

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

• Angola — 42.35% (2016)
• Benin — 33.83% (2016)
• Burkina Faso — 39.14% (2018)
• Burundi — 47.71% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 39.11% (2018)
• 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 Cameroon

• 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 — 5.29 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 114.41% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 109.53% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 119.22% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 121,453 (2024)
• School enrollment, preprimary (% gross) — 35.62% (2019)

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Questions people ask

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

36.6% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is up 1.95 percentage points from 34.65% in 1971. The highest value was 43.55% in 1992 and the lowest 34.61% in 1973.

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

In 2016, Cameroon's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) fell 0.41 percentage points on 2015 (from 37.01% to 36.6%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1975 to 2015), the average change was +0.19 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.99 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below 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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