Ecuador: Net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population)

Key figures

Since 1998 it is down 14.38 percentage points from 79.37% in 1998. The World Bank has no value for 10 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.26 percentage points in 2006 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.2 percentage points in 2004. 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

In 2018, Ecuador had the 21st highest value of the 32 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.

Closest to Ecuador in the 2018 ranking

• Madagascar — 18th of 32: 69.56%
• Colombia — 19th of 32: 68.72%
• Guatemala — 20th of 32: 66.07%
• Belize — 22nd of 32: 62.41%
• Suriname — 23rd of 32: 58.06%
• Burundi — 24th of 32: 57.56%

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 11 values

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

• Bahamas, The — 53.82% (2018)
• Barbados — 92.92% (2018)
• Belize — 62.41% (2018)
• Bolivia — 96.24% (2018)
• Colombia — 68.72% (2018)
• Cuba — 96.62% (2018)
• Dominican Republic — 87.2% (2018)
• El Salvador — 56.12% (2018)
• Guatemala

More education data for Ecuador

• 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) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 1.72 million (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 77,432 (2024)
• School enrollment, preprimary (% gross) — 55.29% (2021)
• Primary education, teachers (% female) — 79.45% (2024)
• Secondary education, pupils — 1.79 million (2024)
• Pupil-teacher ratio, preprimary — 19.32 (2018)

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Questions people ask

What is Ecuador's net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population)?

64.99% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1998?

It is down 14.38 percentage points from 79.37% in 1998. The highest value was 82.64% in 2007 and the lowest 64.99% in 2018.

How does Ecuador rank?

21st highest of 32 economies with data for 2018.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.NINT.MA.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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