El Salvador's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) was 56.79% in 2018, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 5.99 percentage points from 62.78% in 2008.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 56.79% | 2018 |
| Five years earlier | 58.36% | 2013 |
| Ten years earlier | 62.78% | 2008 |
| Highest | 66.19% | 2005 |
| Lowest | 55.45% | 2017 |
| Average since 2009 | 59.37% | 2009–2018 |
| First recorded | 59.24% | 2001 |
What the numbers say
In 2018, El Salvador's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) rose 1.34 percentage points on 2017 (from 55.45% to 56.79%).
Across the 12 yearly changes before that (2006 to 2017), the average change was −0.89 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations above 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 2.52 percentage points in 2015 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.83 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 downward, about 0.61 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 69% 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 54.37% 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 0.78%, against 4.08% 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, El Salvador had the 26th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| El Salvador | 56.79% | 2018 |
| World | 69.91% | 2018 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 75.29% | 2018 |
| Upper middle income | 79.09% | 2018 |
Closest to El Salvador in the 2018 ranking
- Belize — 23rd of 34: 61.51%
- Suriname — 24th of 34: 58.37%
- Burundi — 25th of 34: 57.62%
- Bahamas, The — 27th of 34: 55.47%
- Oman — 28th of 34: 55.33%
- Timor-Leste — 29th of 34: 52.5%
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 15 values
| Year | Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 56.79 |
| 2017 | 55.45 |
| 2016 | 58.28 |
| 2015 | 60.92 |
| 2014 | 58.4 |
| 2013 | 58.36 |
| 2012 | 61.02 |
| 2011 | 61.88 |
| 2010 | 60.96 |
| 2009 | 61.58 |
| 2008 |
Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies
- Bahamas, The — 55.47% (2018)
- Barbados — 92.26% (2018)
- Belize — 61.51% (2018)
- Bolivia — 95.95% (2018)
- Colombia — 68.54% (2018)
- Cuba — 96.9% (2018)
- Dominican Republic — 87.79% (2018)
- Ecuador — 66.13% (2018)
- Guatemala
More education data for El Salvador
- Primary school starting age (years) — 7 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 13 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, pupils — 594,860 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 89.88% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 90.18% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 89.6% (2024)
- School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 32.83% (2024)
- Primary education, pupils (% female)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is El Salvador's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?
- 56.79% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2001?
- It is down 2.45 percentage points from 59.24% in 2001. The highest value was 66.19% in 2005 and the lowest 55.45% in 2017.
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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