East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income): Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 6.42 percentage points from 67.44% in 2013. Since 2009 it is up 10.81 percentage points from 63.06% in 2009.

What the numbers say

In 2018, East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)'s net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) rose 0.13 percentage points on 2017 (from 73.73% to 73.86%).

Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2017), the average change was +1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.03 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 2.4 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.43 percentage points in 2017. 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 1.45 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 95% of the movement over 10 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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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 10 values

Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 86.76% (2018)
• Bahrain — 83.77% (2018)
• Kuwait — 56.24% (2017)
• Morocco — 81.07% (2018)
• Oman — 55.33% (2018)
• Tunisia — 93.7% (2018)

More education data for East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)

• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 179.31 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 99.97% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 10.13 million (2024)
• Secondary education, pupils — 161.08 million (2024)
• School enrollment, secondary (% gross) — 91.01% (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers — 10.33 million (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)'s net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?

73.86% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2009?

It is up 10.81 percentage points from 63.06% in 2009. The highest value was 74.16% in 2016 and the lowest 63.06% in 2009.

Is the latest change in net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) unusual for East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)?

In 2018, East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)'s net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) rose 0.13 percentage points on 2017 (from 73.73% to 73.86%). Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2010 to 2017), the average change was +1.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.03 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

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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