Mali: Adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age)

Key figures

Since 1971 it is down 32.16 percentage points from 91.71% in 1971. The World Bank has no value for 38 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2009 to 2018 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 22% 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

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Closest to Mali in the 2018 ranking

• Myanmar — 2nd of 3: 7.43%
• Namibia — 3rd of 3: 2.32%

What this measures

Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.

Limitations: The administrative data used in the calculation of the rate of out-of-school children are based on enrolment at a specific date which can bias the results by either counting enrolled children who never attend school or by omitting those who enroll after the reference date for reporting enrolment data. Furthermore, children who drop out of school after the reference date are not counted as out of school. Discrepancies between enrolment and population data from different sources can also result in over- or underestimates of the rate.

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

All 10 values

Adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 8.8% (2022)
• Burkina Faso — 55.47% (2024)
• Burundi — 34.96% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 48.16% (2022)
• Cameroon — 48.96% (2023)
• Chad — 63.55% (2024)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 29.44% (2024)
• Eritrea — 42.22% (2022)

More education data for Mali

• 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) — 6 (2025)
• School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 0.91 (2020)
• Primary education, pupils — 2.97 million (2023)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 72.8% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 69.37% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 76.15% (2023)
• Primary education, teachers — 59,920 (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Mali's adolescents out of school, female (% of female lower secondary school age)?

59.55% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is down 32.16 percentage points from 91.71% in 1971. The highest value was 91.71% in 1971 and the lowest 52.02% in 2015.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API..

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.UNER.LO.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. 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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