St. Kitts and Nevis's primary education, pupils (% female) was 49.3% in 2016, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.52 percentage points from 49.82% in 2011.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 49.3% | 2016 |
| Five years earlier | 49.82% | 2011 |
| Highest | 50.19% | 2004 |
| Lowest | 42.09% | 1986 |
| Average since 2007 | 49.68% | 2007–2016 |
| First recorded | 48.23% | 1976 |
Over five years it is down 0.52 percentage points from 49.82% in 2011. Since 1976 it is up 1.07 percentage points from 48.23% in 1976. The World Bank has no value for 5 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2016, St. Kitts and Nevis' primary education, pupils (% female) fell 0.48 percentage points on 2015 (from 49.78% to 49.3%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1977 to 2015), the average change was −0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.12 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 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 7.52 percentage points in 1987 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.28 percentage points in 1982. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2007 to 2016 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 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.
How it compares
In 2016, St. Kitts and Nevis had the 2nd highest value of the 13 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 49.3% | 2016 |
| World | 48.43% | 2018 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 48.5% | 2018 |
| High income | 48.71% | 2018 |
Closest to St. Kitts and Nevis in the 2016 ranking
- Kenya — 1st of 13: 49.67%
- Marshall Islands — 3rd of 13: 48.85%
- Naoero — 4th of 13: 48.51%
- Dominica — 5th of 13: 48.41%
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 36 values
| Year | Primary education, pupils (% female) |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 49.3 |
| 2015 | 49.78 |
| 2014 | 49.72 |
| 2013 | 50.1 |
| 2012 | 49.62 |
| 2011 | 49.82 |
| 2010 | 49.4 |
| 2009 | 49.83 |
| 2008 | 49.81 |
| 2007 | 49.45 |
| 2006 |
Primary education, pupils (% female) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 49.2% (2018)
- Argentina — 49.04% (2017)
- Bahamas, The — 49.57% (2018)
- Barbados — 48.32% (2018)
- Belize — 47.74% (2018)
- Bolivia — 48.68% (2018)
- Brazil — 47.91% (2017)
- British Virgin Islands — 46.91% (2017)
- Cayman Islands — 48.38% (2018)
- Chile — 48.4% (2017)
- Colombia
More education data for St. Kitts and Nevis
- Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
- Primary education, pupils — 5,110 (2023)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 121.12% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 117.03% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 125.28% (2023)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 0.95 (2021)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is St. Kitts and Nevis's primary education, pupils (% female)?
- 49.3% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1976?
- It is up 1.07 percentage points from 48.23% in 1976. The highest value was 50.19% in 2004 and the lowest 42.09% in 1986.
- How does St. Kitts and Nevis rank?
- 2nd highest of 13 economies with data for 2016.
- Is the latest change in primary education, pupils (% female) unusual for St. Kitts and Nevis?
- In 2016, St. Kitts and Nevis' primary education, pupils (% female) fell 0.48 percentage points on 2015 (from 49.78% to 49.3%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1977 to 2015), the average change was −0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.12 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
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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