Education · Sri Lanka
Yearly data from 1970 to 2023, from the World Bank.
Sri Lanka's primary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group) was 95.44% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.33 percentage points from 95.11% in 2013.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 95.44% | 2023 |
| Ten years earlier | 95.11% | 2013 |
| Highest | 105.96% | 2002 |
| Lowest | 65.82% | 1970 |
| Average since 2014 | 95.39% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 65.82% | 1970 |
Since 1970 it is up 29.62 percentage points from 65.82% in 1970. The World Bank has no value for 23 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
In 2023, Sri Lanka's primary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group) fell 0.64 percentage points on 2022 (from 96.08% to 95.44%).
Across the 22 yearly changes before that (1986 to 2022), the average change was +0.32 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.63 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.51 percentage points in 2010 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.68 percentage points in 2003. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 6% of the movement over 9 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
In 2023, Sri Lanka had the 18th highest value of the 32 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.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 95.44% | 2023 |
| World | 87.74% | 2024 |
| South Asia | 96.1% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 95.12% | 2023 |
Primary completion rate, or gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, is the number of new entrants (enrollments minus repeaters) in the last grade of primary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education. Data limitations preclude adjusting for students who drop out during the final year of primary education.
Limitations: The data do not account for students who drop out during the final year of primary education. Therefore, this rate serves as a proxy and should be considered an upper estimate of the actual primary completion rate. There are many reasons why the primary completion rate can exceed 100 percent. The numerator may include late entrants and overage children who have repeated one or more grades of primary education as well as children who entered school early, while the denominator is the number of children at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | Primary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 95.44 |
| 2022 | 96.08 |
| 2021 | 97.12 |
| 2020 | 93.47 |
| 2019 | 94.63 |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | 97.45 |
| 2016 | 95.93 |
| 2015 | 94.26 |
| 2014 | 94.16 |
| 2013 | 95.11 |
| 2012 | 95.62 |
| 2011 | 97.26 |
| 2010 | 95.67 |
| 2009 | 90.16 |
| 2008 | 88.48 |
| 2007 | 91.82 |
| 2006 | 93.98 |
| 2005 | 94.3 |
| 2004 | no data |
| 2003 | 99.28 |
| 2002 | 105.96 |
| 2001 | 102.61 |
| 2000 | no data |
| 1999 | no data |
| 1998 | 99.28 |
| 1997 | no data |
| 1996 | no data |
| 1995 | no data |
| 1994 | no data |
| 1993 | no data |
| 1992 | 96.92 |
| 1991 | 97.15 |
| 1990 | 94 |
| 1989 | 93.46 |
| 1988 | no data |
| 1987 | 91.83 |
| 1986 | 91.96 |
| 1985 | 89.62 |
| 1984 | no data |
| 1983 | 84.83 |
| 1982 | no data |
| 1981 | no data |
| 1980 | no data |
| 1979 | no data |
| 1978 | no data |
| 1977 | no data |
| 1976 | no data |
| 1975 | no data |
| 1974 | no data |
| 1973 | no data |
| 1972 | no data |
| 1971 | no data |
| 1970 | 65.82 |
Every indicator for Sri Lanka is on the Sri Lanka data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.CMPT.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. 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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