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

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 38.47 percentage points in 2006 and the biggest yearly fall was 30.13 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is downward, about 2.32 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 73% 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

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Closest to Nepal in the 2019 ranking

• Ghana — 2nd of 4: 103.35%
• Kazakhstan — 3rd of 4: 102.57%
• Djibouti — 4th of 4: 79.01%

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 22 values

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

• Bangladesh — 101.95% (2018)
• Bhutan — 105.68% (2018)
• India — 101.22% (2018)
• Maldives — 95.95% (2017)
• Sri Lanka — 99.09% (2017)

More education data for Nepal

• Primary education, pupils — 3.57 million (2025)
• Primary education, teachers — 157,456 (2025)
• Secondary education, pupils — 3.67 million (2024)
• 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) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils (% female) — 50.61% (2019)
• Pupil-teacher ratio, primary — 19.74 (2019)
• Secondary education, teachers — 124,257 (2025)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross)

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Questions people ask

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

145.7% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1992?

It is down 1.45 percentage points from 147.15% in 1992. The highest value was 172.85% in 2011 and the lowest 115.06% in 2005.

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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