Costa Rica vs Nicaragua: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 96.3% in Costa Rica in 2017 and 96% in Nicaragua in 2010, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1991 the value was higher in Costa Rica, by 17.2 percentage points, or 1.24 times that in Nicaragua.

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% of girls of primary-school age · Our World in Data

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What the numbers say

Costa Rica has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1820.
The world as a whole: 77.8% in 1991.

Every year

% of girls of primary-school age · Our World in Data

Year	Costa Rica	Nicaragua	World
2018	–	–	88.2
2017	96.3	–	88.2
2016	98.2	–	88.3
2015	97.5	–	88.2
2014	97	–	88.3
2013	98	–	88.2
2012	–	–	88.2
2011	–	–	88.1
2010	–	96	87.9
2009	–	–	87.9
2008	–	97.2	87.6
2007	–	96.5	87.2
2006	–	96.6	86
2005	–	–	85.4
2004	–	–	84.7
2003	–	–	83.5
2002	–	90.5	81.4
2001	–	84.8	81
2000	–	82	80.7
1999	–	79.2	79.9
1998	–	–	78.9
1997	–	–	78.1
1996	–	–	77.9
1995	–	74.5	78
1994	–	76	78.3
1993	–	75	78
1992	–	74.3	77.7
1991	87.6	70.5	77.8
1990	87	68.2	77.3
1989	86.9	66.4	77.6
1988	–	68.4	76.6
1987	86.7	68	75.8
1986	86.6	66.6	75.3
1985	85.6	67.9	74
1980	91	75	75.8
1975	92	64.1	72.9
1970	89	61.9	69
1965	83.8	50.2	66
1960	81	50.2	63.1
1955	87.6	46.4	57.4
1950	82.5	42.5	51.4
1945	77.4	38.6	43.5
1940	72.2	34.7	40
1935	67.1	30.8	38.2
1930	61.9	26.9	36.4
1925	56.8	23	33
1920	51.7	21.9	30.5
1915	46.5	20.8	29.2
1910	41.4	19.7	28.1
1905	34.6	18.6	25.1
1900	35	17.4	23.3
1895	35.4	16.3	21.8
1890	35.8	15.2	20
1885	36.2	14.1	19
1880	30.7	11.4	17.2
1875	25.7	9.1	15.7
1870	21.3	7.3	13.2
1865	17.5	5.8	10.6
1860	14.2	4.6	9.3
1855	11.5	3.6	8
1850	9.2	2.9	6.8
1845	7.3	2.3	5.9
1840	5.8	1.8	5.2
1835	4.6	1.4	4.5
1830	3.6	1.1	4
1825	2.5	0.9	3.5
1820	2	0.7	3.1

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The share of girls of primary-school age who are enrolled in school.
Source: Our World in Data, joining historical estimates to the World Bank’s.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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