Iraq vs Tunisia: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 86.9% in Iraq in 2007 and 98.6% in Tunisia in 2009, by Our World in Data estimates. In 2007 the value was higher in Tunisia, by 10.3 percentage points, or 1.12 times that in Iraq.

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

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What the numbers say

Tunisia has been higher since 1985, when it overtook Iraq.
The world as a whole: 87.2% in 2007.

Every year

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

Year	Iraq	Tunisia	World
2018	–	–	88.2
2017	–	–	88.2
2016	–	–	88.3
2015	–	–	88.2
2014	–	–	88.3
2013	–	–	88.2
2012	–	–	88.2
2011	–	–	88.1
2010	–	–	87.9
2009	–	98.6	87.9
2008	–	97.2	87.6
2007	86.9	97.2	87.2
2006	–	98.6	86
2005	–	100	85.4
2004	86.8	–	84.7
2003	–	–	83.5
2002	–	–	81.4
2001	–	97.4	81
2000	82.4	95	80.7
1999	83.4	93	79.9
1998	–	–	78.9
1997	–	92.9	78.1
1996	71.4	93.4	77.9
1995	–	94	78
1994	–	93.1	78.3
1993	74.2	92.6	78
1992	–	91.2	77.7
1991	–	90.3	77.8
1990	–	88.9	77.3
1989	83.7	88.9	77.6
1988	86.3	–	76.6
1987	84.3	–	75.8
1986	82.8	–	75.3
1985	82.1	84.7	74
1980	95	73	75.8
1975	55	62.6	72.9
1970	34	62	69
1965	36	50.4	66
1960	28	33.3	63.1
1955	15.5	18.7	57.4
1950	10	11.8	51.4
1945	6.1	8.9	43.5
1940	5.2	6.6	40
1935	4.7	4.9	38.2
1930	2.3	3.6	36.4
1925	1.3	2.6	33
1920	0.2	1.9	30.5
1915	0.1	1.4	29.2
1910	0.1	1	28.1
1905	0.1	0.7	25.1
1900	0	0.5	23.3
1895	0	0.4	21.8
1890	0	0.3	20
1885	0	0.2	19
1880	0	0.2	17.2
1875	0	0.1	15.7
1870	0	0.1	13.2
1865	0	0.1	10.6
1860	0	0	9.3
1855	0	0	8
1850	0	0	6.8
1845	0	0	5.9
1840	0	0	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.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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