SUMMARY
G LO B A L E D U C AT I O N M O N I TO R I N G R E P O R T 2 0 1 6
TAB LE 2 :
Gender parity index, by region and country income group, 2014
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Upper secondary education
Gender parity index
Countries with parity (%)
Gender parity index
Countries with parity (%)
Gender parity index
Countries with parity (%)
World
0.99
63
0.99
46
0.98
23
Low income
Lower middle income
Upper middle income
High income
0.93
1.02
0.97
1.00
31
52
71
81
0.86
1.02
1.00
0.99
9
33
60
59
0.74
0.93
1.06
1.01
5
17
22
37
Caucasus and Central Asia
Eastern and South-eastern Asia
Europe and Northern America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Northern Africa and Western Asia
Pacific
Southern Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
0.99
0.99
1.00
0.98
0.95
0.97
1.06
0.93
100
86
93
48
56
64
29
38
0.99
1.01
0.99
1.03
0.93
0.95
1.04
0.88
83
57
67
39
46
44
25
19
0.98
1.01
1.01
1.13
0.96
0.94
0.94
0.82
29
37
31
19
33
0
38
6
Note: All values shown are medians.
Source: UIS database.
F I GURE 1 1 :
Gender disparity is higher among the poorest
Gender parity index for selected education indicators, interaction with wealth, by region, 2008–2014
1.4
1.3
1.2
Gender parity index
1.1
Richest
1.0
Parity
0.9
Average
0.8
Poorest
0.7
0.6
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southern Asia
Northern Africa and
Western Asia
Europe and
Northern America
Latin America and
the Caribbean
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Completed lower secondary
Ever been to school
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Ccompleted lower secondary
Ever been to school
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Completed lower secondary
Ever been to school
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Completed lower secondary
Ever been to school
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Completed lower secondary
Ever been to school
Completed upper secondary
Completed primary
Completed lower secondary
0.4
Ever been to school
0.5
Eastern and
South-eastern Asia
Note: Values for Eastern and South-eastern Asia and for Northern Africa and Western Asia refer only to low and middle income countries.
Source: GEM Report team analysis (2016) based on household survey data.
DISABILITY
Determining progress on equal access to education for people with disabilities requires an internationally comparable
measure of disability, yet disability takes diverse forms. By one measure, across 30 education systems in Europe,
3.7% of compulsory education pupils were identified as having a special educational need in 2010. UNICEF and the
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