Nepal: Primary education, pupils (% female)

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.59 percentage points in 1976 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.06 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.

From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.05 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 45% 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

• Monaco — 2nd of 5: 49.57%
• Ghana — 3rd of 5: 49.31%
• Kazakhstan — 4th of 5: 48.99%

What this measures

Female pupils as a percentage of total pupils at primary level include 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 46 values

Primary education, pupils (% female) in nearby economies

• Bangladesh — 50.75% (2018)
• Bhutan — 49.28% (2018)
• India — 50.88% (2017)
• Maldives — 48.78% (2017)
• Sri Lanka — 49.23% (2018)

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)
• Pupil-teacher ratio, primary — 19.74 (2019)
• Secondary education, teachers — 124,257 (2025)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 128.56% (2025)
• Secondary education, pupils (% female)

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Questions people ask

What is Nepal's primary education, pupils (% female)?

50.61% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1970?

It is up 35.71 percentage points from 14.9% in 1970. The highest value was 50.78% in 2015 and the lowest 14% in 1973.

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.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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