Iceland: Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2015, Iceland's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) rose 1.48 percentage points on 2014 (from 97.38% to 98.86%).

Across the 9 yearly changes before that (1999 to 2014), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.48 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 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 3.97 percentage points in 2003 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.63 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

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

How it compares

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Closest to Iceland in the 2015 ranking

• Sweden — 2nd of 4: 96.64%
• Mozambique — 3rd of 4: 75.87%
• Liechtenstein — 4th of 4: 45.96%

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 13 values

Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies

• Azerbaijan — 74.04% (2018)
• Georgia — 69.21% (2018)
• Kazakhstan — 46.81% (2019)
• Kyrgyz Republic — 57.85% (2017)
• Liechtenstein — 45.96% (2015)
• Moldova — 76.38% (2018)
• Spain — 89.84% (2017)
• Sweden — 96.64% (2015)

More education data for Iceland

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 13 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 32,314 (2023)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 98.22% (2023)
• School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 76.52% (2023)
• Secondary education, pupils — 37,056 (2023)
• School enrollment, secondary (% gross) — 108.91% (2023)
• School enrollment, tertiary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.52 (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Iceland's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?

98.86% in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1998?

It is up 0.49 percentage points from 98.37% in 1998. The highest value was 98.86% in 2015 and the lowest 91.3% in 2002.

Is the latest change in net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) unusual for Iceland?

In 2015, Iceland's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) rose 1.48 percentage points on 2014 (from 97.38% to 98.86%). Across the 9 yearly changes before that (1999 to 2014), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.48 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

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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