Honduras: Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 13.55 percentage points from 104.29% in 2012. Since 1980 it is down 49.23 percentage points from 139.97% in 1980. The World Bank has no value for 11 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2017, Honduras' gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group) fell 3.89 percentage points on 2016 (from 94.63% to 90.74%).

Across the 20 yearly changes before that (1992 to 2016), the average change was −0.85 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.42 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below 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 11.48 percentage points in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.24 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2008 to 2017 the straight-line trend is downward, about 2 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 87% 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 86.16% for 2020. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2015 to 2017 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 2.99%, against 5.29% 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 2017, Honduras had the 51st highest value of the 53 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 Honduras in the 2017 ranking

• Panama — 47th of 53: 91.64%
• Liechtenstein — 48th of 53: 91.03%
• São Tomé and Principe — 49th of 53: 90.79%
• Bulgaria — 51st of 53: 90.64%
• Romania — 52nd of 53: 86.93%
• Mali — 53rd of 53: 83.96%

What this measures

Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education is the number of new entrants in the first grade of primary education regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the official primary entrance 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 27 values

Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 97.5% (2018)
• Argentina — 106.36% (2017)
• Bahamas, The — 82.75% (2018)
• Barbados — 97.58% (2018)
• Belize — 99.28% (2018)
• Bolivia — 99.41% (2018)
• British Virgin Islands — 150.3% (2017)
• Chile

More education data for Honduras

• 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) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 1.03 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 78.97% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 79.48% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 78.48% (2024)
• School enrollment, preprimary (% gross) — 33.77% (2021)
• School enrollment, preprimary, female (% gross)

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Questions people ask

What is Honduras's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group)?

90.74% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.GINT.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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