Mozambique: Secondary education, pupils (% female)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.91 percentage points in 1983 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.09 percentage points in 1978. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2008 to 2017 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.55 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 78% of the movement over 9 observed 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, Mozambique had the 58th highest value of the 63 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 Mozambique in the 2017 ranking

• Norway — 54th of 63: 47.61%
• Lithuania — 55th of 63: 47.57%
• Greece — 56th of 63: 47.52%
• Germany — 58th of 63: 46.74%
• United Arab Emirates — 59th of 63: 46.65%
• Liechtenstein — 60th of 63: 44.81%

What this measures

Female pupils as a percentage of total pupils at secondary level includes enrollments in public and private schools.

Limitations: The percentage of female enrollment is limited in assessing gender parity, because it's affected by the gender composition of population. Ratio of female to male in enrollment rate provides a population adjusted measure of gender parity.

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

All 34 values

Secondary education, pupils (% female) in nearby economies

• Angola — 39.52% (2016)
• Benin — 42.41% (2016)
• Burkina Faso — 49.07% (2018)
• Burundi — 52.69% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 52.22% (2018)
• Cameroon — 45.9% (2016)
• Central African Republic — 40.13% (2017)
• Chad — 31.27% (2016)
• Comoros — 50.79% (2018)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 38.8% (2015)
• Côte d'Ivoire

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 secondary education, pupils (% female)?

47.52% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1973?

It is up 7.52 percentage points from 40% in 1973. The highest value was 47.93% in 2015 and the lowest 27.31% in 1980.

How does Mozambique rank?

58th highest of 63 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.SEC.ENRL.FE.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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