Haiti vs Peru: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 57.4% in Haiti in 1997 and 93.1% in Peru in 2015, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1980 the value was higher in Peru, by 49.4 percentage points, or 2.5 times that in Haiti.

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

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What the numbers say

Peru has been higher since 1825.
The world as a whole: 75.8% in 1980.

Every year

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

Year	Haiti	Peru	World
2018	–	–	88.2
2017	–	–	88.2
2016	–	–	88.3
2015	–	93.1	88.2
2014	–	92.9	88.3
2013	–	93.9	88.2
2012	–	91.8	88.2
2011	–	96.9	88.1
2010	–	–	87.9
2009	–	96.3	87.9
2008	–	–	87.6
2007	–	–	87.2
2006	–	–	86
2005	–	–	85.4
2004	–	–	84.7
2003	–	98.5	83.5
2002	–	–	81.4
2001	–	–	81
2000	–	97.1	80.7
1999	–	96.3	79.9
1998	–	95	78.9
1997	57.4	–	78.1
1996	–	–	77.9
1995	–	84.8	78
1994	–	–	78.3
1993	–	89.9	78
1992	–	–	77.7
1991	–	–	77.8
1990	–	–	77.3
1989	–	–	77.6
1988	–	–	76.6
1987	42.6	–	75.8
1986	50.3	–	75.3
1985	47.5	–	74
1980	33	82.4	75.8
1975	28.2	77.9	72.9
1970	22.9	72	69
1965	23.4	62	66
1960	18.1	47.3	63.1
1955	21.1	55.1	57.4
1950	24	55.9	51.4
1945	0	51	43.5
1940	0	46.1	40
1935	0	41.2	38.2
1930	0	36.3	36.4
1925	0	31.5	33
1920	0	26.6	30.5
1915	0	21.7	29.2
1910	0	16.8	28.1
1905	0	12.3	25.1
1900	0	8.9	23.3
1895	0	6.3	21.8
1890	0	4.5	20
1885	0	3.1	19
1880	0	2.1	17.2
1875	0	1.5	15.7
1870	0	1	13.2
1865	0	0.7	10.6
1860	0	0.4	9.3
1855	0	0.3	8
1850	0	0.2	6.8
1845	0	0.1	5.9
1840	0	0.1	5.2
1835	0	0	4.5
1830	0	0	4
1825	0	0	3.5
1820	0	0	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.
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.

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