Uganda's net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) was 57.58% in 2017, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 12.12 percentage points from 69.7% in 2007.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 57.58% | 2017 |
| Ten years earlier | 69.7% | 2007 |
| Highest | 71.25% | 2005 |
| Lowest | 57.58% | 2017 |
| Average since 2008 | 63.74% | 2008–2017 |
| First recorded | 68.49% | 2002 |
Since 2002 it is down 10.9 percentage points from 68.49% in 2002. The World Bank has no value for 4 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2017, Uganda's net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) fell 0.24 percentage points on 2016 (from 57.83% to 57.58%).
Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2005 to 2016), the average change was −0.11 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 5.44 percentage points in 2005 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.77 percentage points in 2006. 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 2017, Uganda had the 10th 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Uganda | 57.58% | 2017 |
| World | 70.31% | 2018 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 57.77% | 2018 |
| Low income | 65.68% | 2018 |
Closest to Uganda in the 2017 ranking
- Philippines — 6th of 13: 65.12%
- Kyrgyz Republic — 7th of 13: 59.2%
- Togo — 8th of 13: 58.28%
- Kuwait — 10th of 13: 56.48%
- Tanzania — 11th of 13: 49.25%
- Senegal — 12th of 13: 40.05%
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 12 values
| Year | Net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 57.58 |
| 2016 | 57.83 |
| 2015 | 58.86 |
| 2014 | no data |
| 2013 | no data |
| 2012 | no data |
| 2011 | 65.98 |
| 2010 | 66.71 |
| 2009 | 68.6 |
| 2008 | 70.59 |
| 2007 |
Net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) in nearby economies
- Burkina Faso — 45.15% (2018)
- Burundi — 57.56% (2018)
- Cabo Verde — 97.48% (2018)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 76.45% (2018)
- Eritrea — 28.92% (2018)
- Eswatini — 37.29% (2016)
- Guinea — 63.04% (2016)
- Lesotho — 71.82% (2016)
- Madagascar
More education data for Uganda
- Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 13 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, teachers — 207,238 (2017)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.03 (2017)
- Primary education, pupils — 8.84 million (2017)
- Pupil-teacher ratio, primary — 42.66 (2017)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 106.17% (2017)
- Primary education, pupils (% female) — 50.28% (2017)
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Questions people ask
- What is Uganda's net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population)?
- 57.58% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2002?
- It is down 10.9 percentage points from 68.49% in 2002. The highest value was 71.25% in 2005 and the lowest 57.58% in 2017.
- How does Uganda rank?
- 10th highest of 13 economies with data for 2017.
- Is the latest change in net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) unusual for Uganda?
- In 2017, Uganda's net intake rate in grade 1, male (% of official school-age population) fell 0.24 percentage points on 2016 (from 57.83% to 57.58%). Across the 8 yearly changes before that (2005 to 2016), the average change was −0.11 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.22 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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.NINT.MA.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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