Tanzania: Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)

Key figures

Since 1998 it is up 38.29 percentage points from 12.1% in 1998. The World Bank has no value for 9 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2017, Tanzania had the 12th 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.

Closest to Tanzania in the 2017 ranking

• Kyrgyz Republic — 8th of 13: 57.85%
• Togo — 9th of 13: 57.64%
• Kuwait — 10th of 13: 56.24%
• Senegal — 12th of 13: 42.41%
• Mali — 13th of 13: 22.05%

What this measures

Net intake rate in grade 1 is the number of new entrants in the first grade of primary education who are of official primary school entrance age, expressed as a percentage of the population of the corresponding 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 11 values

Net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies

• Burkina Faso — 44.12% (2018)
• Burundi — 57.62% (2018)
• Cabo Verde — 97.06% (2018)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 73.32% (2018)
• Eritrea — 28.02% (2018)
• Eswatini — 38.41% (2016)
• Guinea — 58.65% (2016)
• Lesotho — 70.6% (2016)
• Madagascar

More education data for Tanzania

• Primary school starting age (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 14 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 11.39 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 92.69% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 95.33% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 90.09% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 229,840 (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI)

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Questions people ask

What is Tanzania's net intake rate in grade 1 (% of official school-age population)?

50.39% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1998?

It is up 38.29 percentage points from 12.1% in 1998. The highest value was 91.64% in 2002 and the lowest 12.1% in 1998.

How does Tanzania rank?

12th highest of 13 economies with data for 2017.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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).

Source

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