St. Lucia's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) was 106.85% in 2018, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 106.85% | 2018 |
| Highest | 118.45% | 1991 |
| Lowest | 90.42% | 2004 |
| Average since 2016 | 102.69% | 2016–2018 |
| First recorded | 105.04% | 1983 |
Since 1983 it is up 1.81 percentage points from 105.04% in 1983. The World Bank has no value for 21 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2018, St. Lucia's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) rose 9.03 percentage points on 2017 (from 97.82% to 106.85%).
Across the 8 yearly changes before that (1984 to 2017), the average change was +0.27 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 4.71 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.9 standard deviations above 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 9.03 percentage points in 2018 and the biggest yearly fall was 6.21 percentage points in 2004. 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, St. Lucia had the 25th highest value of the 79 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. Lucia | 106.85% | 2018 |
| World | 103.55% | 2018 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 100.01% | 2018 |
| Upper middle income | 100.85% | 2018 |
Closest to St. Lucia in the 2018 ranking
- Solomon Islands — 22nd of 79: 107.93%
- Qatar — 23rd of 79: 107.91%
- Pakistan — 24th of 79: 107.26%
- Ecuador — 26th of 79: 106.6%
- Mauritania — 27th of 79: 106.28%
- Tunisia — 28th of 79: 105.97%
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 15 values
| Year | Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 106.85 |
| 2017 | 97.82 |
| 2016 | 103.41 |
| 2015 | no data |
| 2014 | no data |
| 2013 | no data |
| 2012 | no data |
| 2011 | no data |
| 2010 | no data |
| 2009 | no data |
Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 99.57% (2018)
- Argentina — 106.04% (2017)
- Bahamas, The — 83.84% (2018)
- Barbados — 99.11% (2018)
- Belize — 97.68% (2018)
- Bolivia — 98.5% (2018)
- British Virgin Islands — 150% (2017)
- Chile
More education data for St. Lucia
- 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 — 14,257 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 96.78% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers — 1,067 (2024)
- Primary education, teachers (% female) — 86.22% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 97.17% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 96.41% (2024)
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Questions people ask
- What is St. Lucia's gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group)?
- 106.85% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1983?
- It is up 1.81 percentage points from 105.04% in 1983. The highest value was 118.45% in 1991 and the lowest 90.42% in 2004.
- How does St. Lucia rank?
- 25th highest of 79 economies with data for 2018.
- Is the latest change in gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female (% of relevant age group) unusual for St. Lucia?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.GINT.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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