Malawi vs Nigeria

Malawi vs Nigeria: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 97.1% in Malawi in 2007 and 58.1% in Nigeria in 2010, by Our World in Data estimates. In 2007 the value was higher in Malawi, by 34.4 percentage points, or 1.55 times that in Nigeria.

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

Malawi vs Nigeria: Girls in primary schoolGirls in primary school: 97.1% in Malawi in 2007 and 58.1% in Nigeria in 2010, by Our World in Data estimates. In 2007 the value was higher in Malawi, by 34.4 percentage points, or 1.55 times that in Nigeria.
MalawiNigeriaWorld

What the numbers say

  • Malawi has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2007.
  • The world as a whole: 87.2% in 2007.

Every year

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

YearMalawiNigeriaWorld
2018––88.2
2017––88.2
2016––88.3
2015––88.2
2014––88.3
2013––88.2
2012––88.2
2011––88.1
2010–58.187.9
2009–57.987.9
2008–56.787.6
200797.162.787.2
2006–63.386
2005–62.185.4
2004–61.584.7
2003––83.5
2002––81.4
2001––81
2000–59.280.7
1999–56.379.9
1998––78.9
1997––78.1
1996––77.9
1995––78
1994––78.3
1993––78
1992––77.7
1991––77.8
1990––77.3
1989––77.6
1988––76.6
1987––75.8
1986––75.3
1985––74
198039–75.8
197533–72.9
197019.5–69
196524–66
196033.8–63.1
195540.1–57.4
195043.2–51.4
194533.7–43.5
194025.3–40
193518.4–38.2
193013–36.4
19258.9–33
19206.1–30.5
19154–29.2
19102.7–28.1
19051.7–25.1
19001.1–23.3
18950.7–21.8
18900.4–20
18850.3–19
18800.2–17.2
18750.1–15.7
18700.1–13.2
18650–10.6
18600–9.3
18550–8
18500–6.8
18450–5.9
18400–5.2
18350–4.5
18300–4
18250–3.5
18200–3.1

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.
  • The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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