St. Kitts and Nevis's secondary education, pupils (% female) was 51.4% in 2016, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.02 percentage points from 50.38% in 2011.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 51.4% | 2016 |
| Five years earlier | 50.38% | 2011 |
| Highest | 53.55% | 2013 |
| Lowest | 48.32% | 1985 |
| Average since 2007 | 50.78% | 2007–2016 |
| First recorded | 48.4% | 1984 |
Over five years it is up 1.02 percentage points from 50.38% in 2011. Since 1984 it is up 3 percentage points from 48.4% in 1984. The World Bank has no value for 9 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' secondary education, pupils (% female) rose 0.66 percentage points on 2015 (from 50.74% to 51.4%).
Across the 19 yearly changes before that (1985 to 2015), the average change was +0.26 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.44 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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 2.88 percentage points in 2013 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.48 percentage points in 2014. 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 12% 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 1st highest value of the 14 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 | 51.4% | 2016 |
| World | 47.96% | 2018 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 50.14% | 2018 |
| High income | 48.38% | 2018 |
Closest to St. Kitts and Nevis in the 2016 ranking
What this measures
Female pupils as a percentage of total pupils at secondary level includes 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 24 values
| Year | Secondary education, pupils (% female) |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 51.4 |
| 2015 | 50.74 |
| 2014 | 50.07 |
| 2013 | 53.55 |
| 2012 | 50.67 |
| 2011 | 50.38 |
| 2010 | 49.25 |
| 2009 | 51.31 |
| 2008 | 50.82 |
| 2007 | 49.58 |
| 2006 |
Secondary education, pupils (% female) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 48.52% (2018)
- Argentina — 50.18% (2017)
- Bahamas, The — 51.74% (2018)
- Barbados — 49.59% (2018)
- Belize — 50.59% (2018)
- Bolivia — 48.46% (2018)
- Brazil — 49.73% (2017)
- British Virgin Islands — 51.8% (2017)
- Cayman Islands — 49.68% (2018)
- Chile — 49.24% (2017)
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 secondary education, pupils (% female)?
- 51.4% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1984?
- It is up 3 percentage points from 48.4% in 1984. The highest value was 53.55% in 2013 and the lowest 48.32% in 1985.
- How does St. Kitts and Nevis rank?
- 1st highest of 14 economies with data for 2016.
- Is the latest change in secondary education, pupils (% female) unusual for St. Kitts and Nevis?
- In 2016, St. Kitts and Nevis' secondary education, pupils (% female) rose 0.66 percentage points on 2015 (from 50.74% to 51.4%). Across the 19 yearly changes before that (1985 to 2015), the average change was +0.26 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.44 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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.SEC.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.
Want to ask your own questions of data like this? Try AnalyzeIt: upload a file or ask about public data in plain words, and every figure comes with its working.
Legal entity
Devansh Yadav
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Governing law: Courts at Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Phone: +91 8433475698
Legal: legal@analyzeit.in