Mexico's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) was 71.08% in 2017, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 15.65 percentage points from 86.73% in 2007.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 71.08% | 2017 |
| Ten years earlier | 86.73% | 2007 |
| Highest | 88.81% | 2003 |
| Lowest | 70.91% | 2013 |
| Average since 2010 | 72.02% | 2010–2017 |
| First recorded | 86.08% | 1999 |
Since 1999 it is down 15 percentage points from 86.08% in 1999. The World Bank has no value for 5 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.67 percentage points in 2002 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.27 percentage points in 2004. 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
In 2017, Mexico had the 3rd highest value of the 13 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 71.08% | 2017 |
| World | 69.91% | 2018 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 75.29% | 2018 |
| Upper middle income | 79.09% | 2018 |
Closest to Mexico in the 2017 ranking
- Spain — 1st of 13: 89.84%
- Mauritius — 2nd of 13: 81.87%
- Venezuela, RB — 4th of 13: 70.53%
- Honduras — 5th of 13: 69.72%
- Philippines — 6th of 13: 65.06%
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 14 values
| Year | Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 71.08 |
| 2016 | no data |
| 2015 | 72.05 |
| 2014 | 71.22 |
| 2013 | 70.91 |
| 2012 | no data |
| 2011 | no data |
| 2010 | 74.82 |
| 2009 | no data |
| 2008 | no data |
| 2007 |
Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies
- Bahamas, The — 55.47% (2018)
- Barbados — 92.26% (2018)
- Belize — 61.51% (2018)
- Bolivia — 95.95% (2018)
- Colombia — 68.54% (2018)
- Cuba — 96.9% (2018)
- Dominican Republic — 87.79% (2018)
- Ecuador — 66.13% (2018)
- El Salvador
More education data for Mexico
- 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 — 13.19 million (2025)
- Secondary education, pupils — 13.99 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, private (% of total primary) — 10.18% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers — 571,832 (2023)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.01 (2020)
- School enrollment, primary and secondary (gross), gender parity index (GPI)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Mexico's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?
- 71.08% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1999?
- It is down 15 percentage points from 86.08% in 1999. The highest value was 88.81% in 2003 and the lowest 70.91% in 2013.
- How does Mexico rank?
- 3rd highest of 13 economies with data for 2017.
- 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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