Mozambique's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) was 75.87% in 2015, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 30.21 percentage points from 45.66% in 2005.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 75.87% | 2015 |
| Five years earlier | 63.19% | 2010 |
| Ten years earlier | 45.66% | 2005 |
| Highest | 76.18% | 2014 |
| Lowest | 14.24% | 1998 |
| Average since 2006 | 64.12% | 2006–2015 |
| First recorded | 14.24% | 1998 |
What the numbers say
In 2015, Mozambique's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) fell 0.31 percentage points on 2014 (from 76.18% to 75.87%).
Across the 14 yearly changes before that (1999 to 2014), the average change was +3.03 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.06 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 7.52 percentage points in 2013 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.31 percentage points in 2015. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2006 to 2015 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.74 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 96% 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 85.83% for 2018. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2013 to 2015 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 2.28%, against 9.9% 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
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | 75.87% | 2015 |
| World | 69.91% | 2018 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 56.68% | 2018 |
| Low income | 63.89% | 2018 |
Closest to Mozambique in the 2015 ranking
- Iceland — 1st of 4: 98.86%
- Sweden — 2nd of 4: 96.64%
- 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 17 values
| Year | Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 75.87 |
| 2014 | 76.18 |
| 2013 | 72.46 |
| 2012 | 64.94 |
| 2011 | 63.25 |
| 2010 | 63.19 |
| 2009 | 60.59 |
| 2008 | 57.91 |
| 2007 | 55.8 |
| 2006 | 51.01 |
| 2005 |
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)
- Madagascar
More education data for Mozambique
- 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) — 5 (2025)
- Primary education, pupils — 7.66 million (2022)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 119.16% (2022)
- Primary education, teachers — 133,644 (2022)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 116.09% (2022)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 122.22% (2022)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI)
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Questions people ask
- What is Mozambique's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?
- 75.87% in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1998?
- It is up 61.63 percentage points from 14.24% in 1998. The highest value was 76.18% in 2014 and the lowest 14.24% in 1998.
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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