Ecuador: Secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 2.6 percentage points from 46.55% in 2013. Since 1971 it is down 13 percentage points from 56.94% in 1971. The World Bank has no value for 9 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2018, Ecuador's secondary education, vocational pupils (% female) fell 0.34 percentage points on 2017 (from 44.28% to 43.95%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1976 to 2017), the average change was −0.54 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.12 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 1.9 percentage points in 1979 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.88 percentage points in 1985. 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 downward, about 0.67 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 96% 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.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 41.54% for 2021. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2016 to 2018 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.16%, against 1.29% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2018, Ecuador had the 22nd highest value of the 61 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

• Lao PDR — 19th of 61: 44.91%
• Montenegro — 20th of 61: 44.55%
• Malaysia — 21st of 61: 44.02%
• Indonesia — 23rd of 61: 42.87%
• China — 24th of 61: 42.76%
• Timor-Leste — 25th of 61: 41.96%

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 39 values

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

• Antigua and Barbuda — 36.88% (2018)
• Belize — 47.17% (2018)
• Bolivia — 49% (2018)
• Brazil — 54.56% (2017)
• British Virgin Islands — 54.43% (2017)
• Chile — 45.93% (2017)
• Colombia — 53.25% (2018)
• Costa Rica — 52.26% (2018)
• Cuba — 40.39% (2018)
• Dominican Republic

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 secondary education, vocational pupils (% female)?

43.95% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is down 13 percentage points from 56.94% in 1971. The highest value was 61.48% in 1979 and the lowest 43.95% in 2018.

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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