Uruguay: Secondary education, pupils (% female)

Key figures

Since 1970 it is down 1.48 percentage points from 53.04% in 1970. The World Bank has no value for 26 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.44 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.01 percentage points in 2007. 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, Uruguay had the 7th highest value of the 63 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 Uruguay in the 2017 ranking

• British Virgin Islands — 4th of 63: 51.8%
• South Africa — 5th of 63: 51.7%
• Belgium — 6th of 63: 51.68%
• Finland — 8th of 63: 51.17%
• Mexico — 9th of 63: 51.09%
• Venezuela, RB — 10th of 63: 50.88%

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 22 values

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 Uruguay

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 287,527 (2023)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 104.53% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 103.96% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 105.08% (2023)
• Secondary education, pupils — 337,808 (2023)
• School enrollment, secondary (% gross) — 119.11% (2023)

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Questions people ask

What is Uruguay's secondary education, pupils (% female)?

51.56% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1970?

It is down 1.48 percentage points from 53.04% in 1970. The highest value was 56.05% in 1998 and the lowest 48.76% in 2007.

How does Uruguay rank?

7th highest of 63 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.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.

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