Guinea: Repeaters, primary, total (% of total enrollment)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.37 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.86 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.

From 2007 to 2016 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 9 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2016, Guinea had the 3rd highest value of the 17 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 Guinea in the 2016 ranking

• Central African Republic — 1st of 17: 22.64%
• Chad — 2nd of 17: 16.82%
• Lesotho — 4th of 17: 9.17%
• Papua New Guinea — 5th of 17: 8.9%
• South Africa — 6th of 17: 8.79%

What this measures

Repeaters in primary school are the number of students enrolled in the same grade as in the previous year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school.

Limitations: Country policies on repetition and promotion differ. In some cases the number of repeaters is controlled because of limited capacity. In other cases the number of repeaters is almost 0 because of automatic promotion – suggesting a system that is highly efficient but that may not be endowing students with enough cognitive skills.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 37 values

Repeaters, primary, total (% of total enrollment) in nearby economies

• Benin — 15.11% (2018)
• Burkina Faso — 5.7% (2018)
• Burundi — 25.72% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 7.75% (2018)
• Cameroon — 12.25% (2018)
• Central African Republic — 22.64% (2016)
• Chad — 16.82% (2016)
• Comoros — 15.95% (2018)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 9.87% (2015)
• Côte d'Ivoire

More education data for Guinea

• 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) — 7 (2025)
• School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 0.85 (2020)
• Primary education, teachers — 43,914 (2020)
• Primary education, pupils — 2.11 million (2020)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 100.48% (2020)
• Secondary education, general pupils — 673,633 (2016)
• Secondary education, general pupils (% female) — 38.43% (2016)

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Questions people ask

What is Guinea's repeaters, primary, total (% of total enrollment)?

11.64% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1977?

It is up 2.8 percentage points from 8.84% in 1977. The highest value was 28.09% in 1982 and the lowest 8.62% in 2006.

How does Guinea rank?

3rd highest of 17 economies with data for 2016.

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.REPT.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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