Solomon Islands: Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 14.1 percentage points from 122.11% in 2013. Since 1975 it is up 12.65 percentage points from 95.36% in 1975. The World Bank has no value for 25 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

In 2018, Solomon Islands' gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group) fell 7.34 percentage points on 2017 (from 115.35% to 108%).

Across the 12 yearly changes before that (1981 to 2017), the average change was +2.95 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 8.46 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 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 17.83 percentage points in 1983 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.35 percentage points in 1994. 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 2018, Solomon Islands had the 24th highest value of the 80 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 Solomon Islands in the 2018 ranking

• Morocco — 20th of 80: 109.84%
• Tanzania — 21st of 80: 109.15%
• Albania — 22nd of 80: 109.09%
• Peru — 24th of 80: 106.54%
• Kyrgyz Republic — 25th of 80: 106.01%
• Dominican Republic — 26th of 80: 105.96%

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 19 values

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

• Brunei Darussalam — 100.55% (2018)
• Cambodia — 104.58% (2018)
• China — 102.56% (2018)
• Fiji — 111.47% (2016)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 113.62% (2018)
• Indonesia — 102.52% (2018)
• Kiribati — 102.18% (2017)
• Korea, Rep.

More education data for Solomon Islands

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 98,955 (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 81.84% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 80.63% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 82.99% (2024)
• Secondary education, general pupils — 52,566 (2018)
• Secondary education, general pupils (% female)

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Questions people ask

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

108% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1975?

It is up 12.65 percentage points from 95.36% in 1975. The highest value was 124.98% in 1993 and the lowest 82.11% in 1981.

How does Solomon Islands rank?

24th highest of 80 economies with data for 2018.

Is the latest change in gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total (% of relevant age group) unusual for Solomon Islands?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.GINT.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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