Myanmar: Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group)

Key figures

Since 1971 it is up 25.5 percentage points from 114.44% in 1971. The World Bank has no value for 31 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 25.17 percentage points in 1974 and the biggest yearly fall was 22.86 percentage points in 1973. 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, Myanmar had the 3rd highest value of the 53 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 Myanmar in the 2017 ranking

• British Virgin Islands — 1st of 53: 150.3%
• Uganda — 3rd of 53: 139.24%
• Lesotho — 4th of 53: 125.61%
• South Africa — 5th of 53: 107.45%

What this measures

Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education is the number of new entrants in the first grade of primary education regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the official primary entrance 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 16 values

Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies

• Brunei Darussalam — 100.09% (2018)
• Cambodia — 106.73% (2018)
• China — 101.97% (2018)
• Fiji — 113.16% (2016)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 110.5% (2018)
• Indonesia — 104.42% (2018)
• Kiribati — 101.92% (2017)
• Korea, Rep.

More education data for Myanmar

• Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 10 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 5.3 million (2018)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 120.22% (2018)
• Secondary education, general pupils — 4.18 million (2018)
• Primary education, teachers — 217,561 (2018)
• Secondary education, vocational pupils — 7,348 (2018)
• Secondary education, teachers — 153,660 (2018)

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Questions people ask

What is Myanmar's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male (% of relevant age group)?

139.95% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is up 25.5 percentage points from 114.44% in 1971. The highest value was 139.95% in 2017 and the lowest 83.66% in 1973.

How does Myanmar rank?

3rd highest of 53 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.GINT.MA.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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