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

Key figures

Since 2003 it is up 8.46 percentage points from 62.29% in 2003. The World Bank has no value for 5 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2018, Madagascar had the 17th 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.

Closest to Madagascar in the 2018 ranking

• Moldova — 14th of 34: 76.38%
• Azerbaijan — 15th of 34: 74.04%
• Côte d'Ivoire — 16th of 34: 73.32%
• Seychelles — 18th of 34: 69.82%
• Georgia — 19th of 34: 69.21%
• Colombia — 20th of 34: 68.54%

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 11 values

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

• Burkina Faso — 44.12% (2018)
• Burundi — 57.62% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 97.06% (2018)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 73.32% (2018)
• Eritrea — 28.02% (2018)
• Eswatini — 38.41% (2016)
• Guinea — 58.65% (2016)
• Lesotho — 70.6% (2016)
• Mali

More education data for Madagascar

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 11 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 5.29 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 132.74% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 138,648 (2024)
• School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 6.15% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 135.63% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross)

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Questions people ask

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

70.75% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2003?

It is up 8.46 percentage points from 62.29% in 2003. The highest value was 82.47% in 2007 and the lowest 62.29% in 2003.

How does Madagascar rank?

17th highest of 34 economies with data for 2018.

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.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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