Hong Kong SAR, China's repeaters, primary, female (% of female enrollment) was 0.37% in 2018, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.37 percentage points from 0.74% in 2008.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 0.37% | 2018 |
| Five years earlier | 0.52% | 2013 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.74% | 2008 |
| Highest | 3.29% | 1980 |
| Lowest | 0.37% | 2018 |
| Average since 2009 | 0.53% | 2009–2018 |
| First recorded | 3.29% | 1980 |
What the numbers say
In 2018, Hong Kong SAR, China's repeaters, primary, female (% of female enrollment) fell 0.04 percentage points on 2017 (from 0.41% to 0.37%).
Across the 19 yearly changes before that (1981 to 2017), the average change was −0.1 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.19 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 0.07 percentage points in 1982 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.55 percentage points in 1981. 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 0.04 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 98% 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 0.26% 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 0.04%, against 0.08% 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, Hong Kong SAR, China had the 57th highest value of the 75 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong SAR, China | 0.37% | 2018 |
| World | 2.86% | 2018 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 0.47% | 2018 |
| High income | 1.17% | 2018 |
Closest to Hong Kong SAR, China in the 2018 ranking
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 22 values
| Year | Repeaters, primary, female (% of female enrollment) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 0.3684 |
| 2017 | 0.4103 |
| 2016 | 0.4194 |
| 2015 | 0.4835 |
| 2014 | 0.5118 |
| 2013 | 0.5201 |
| 2012 | 0.6046 |
| 2011 | 0.614 |
| 2010 | 0.6576 |
| 2009 | 0.7111 |
| 2008 |
Repeaters, primary, female (% of female enrollment) in nearby economies
- Brunei Darussalam — 0.05% (2018)
- Cambodia — 4.98% (2018)
- China — 0.00571% (2018)
- Fiji — 0.38% (2016)
- Indonesia — 0.99% (2018)
- Kiribati — 2.08% (2016)
- Korea, Rep. — 0.00285% (2017)
- Lao PDR — 3.37% (2018)
- Macao SAR, China — 1.29% (2018)
- Mongolia
More education data for Hong Kong SAR, China
- 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 — 329,780 (2024)
- Primary education, teachers — 28,284 (2024)
- Pupil-teacher ratio, primary — 13.35 (2018)
- School enrollment, primary, private (% of total primary) — 20.6% (2024)
- Secondary education, general pupils — 341,591 (2018)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Hong Kong SAR, China's repeaters, primary, female (% of female enrollment)?
- 0.37% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is down 2.92 percentage points from 3.29% in 1980. The highest value was 3.29% in 1980 and the lowest 0.37% in 2018.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.REPT.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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