Congo - Kinshasa vs United Arab Emirates

Congo - Kinshasa vs United Arab Emirates: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 35.9% in Congo - Kinshasa in 1999 and 86.8% in United Arab Emirates in 2013, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1995 the value was higher in United Arab Emirates, by 32.9 percentage points, or 1.59 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

Watch it change on the map

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

Congo - KinshasaUnited Arab EmiratesWorld

What the numbers say

United Arab Emirates has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1988.
The world as a whole: 78% in 1995.

Every year

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

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	United Arab Emirates	World
2018	–	–	88.2
2017	–	–	88.2
2016	–	–	88.3
2015	–	–	88.2
2014	–	–	88.3
2013	–	86.8	88.2
2012	–	87.5	88.2
2011	–	–	88.1
2010	–	–	87.9
2009	–	–	87.9
2008	–	–	87.6
2007	–	87.1	87.2
2006	–	–	86
2005	–	–	85.4
2004	–	–	84.7
2003	–	–	83.5
2002	–	–	81.4
2001	–	–	81
2000	–	–	80.7
1999	35.9	–	79.9
1998	–	79.7	78.9
1997	–	82.5	78.1
1996	–	86.1	77.9
1995	56	88.8	78
1994	52.7	88.5	78.3
1993	52.5	90.1	78
1992	53.1	91.9	77.7
1991	54.1	95.9	77.8
1990	–	95.1	77.3
1989	–	90.8	77.6
1988	56.5	86.2	76.6
1987	–	83.3	75.8
1986	–	73.2	75.3
1985	–	72	74
1980	62.1	–	75.8
1975	54.6	–	72.9
1970	50	–	69
1965	43.9	–	66
1960	28.8	–	63.1
1955	4.4	–	57.4
1950	4.1	–	51.4
1945	2.8	–	43.5
1940	1.8	–	40
1935	1.2	–	38.2
1930	0.8	–	36.4
1925	0.5	–	33
1920	0.3	–	30.5
1915	0.2	–	29.2
1910	0.1	–	28.1
1905	0.1	–	25.1
1900	0	–	23.3
1895	0	–	21.8
1890	0	–	20
1885	0	–	19
1880	0	–	17.2
1875	0	–	15.7
1870	0	–	13.2
1865	0	–	10.6
1860	0	–	9.3
1855	0	–	8
1850	0	–	6.8
1845	0	–	5.9
1840	0	–	5.2
1835	0	–	4.5
1830	0	–	4
1825	0	–	3.5
1820	0	–	3.1

Each country on its own

Good to know

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.
Ranks count the 97 countries with a value in 2012, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time