Mexico vs Tanzania

Mexico vs Tanzania: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 96.4% in Mexico in 1998 and 82.9% in Tanzania in 2018, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1998 the value was higher in Mexico, by 46 percentage points, or 1.91 times that in Tanzania.

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

Mexico vs Tanzania: Girls in primary schoolGirls in primary school: 96.4% in Mexico in 1998 and 82.9% in Tanzania in 2018, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1998 the value was higher in Mexico, by 46 percentage points, or 1.91 times that in Tanzania.
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What the numbers say

  • Mexico has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1997.
  • The world as a whole: 78.9% in 1998.

Every year

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

YearMexicoTanzaniaWorld
2018–82.988.2
2017–85.288.2
2016–85.488.3
2015––88.2
2014–85.488.3
2013–85.488.2
2012–88.888.2
2011––88.1
2010–93.187.9
2009––87.9
2008–98.787.6
2007––87.2
2006–96.386
2005–90.385.4
2004–85.684.7
2003–80.983.5
2002–72.881.4
2001–58.481
2000–54.480.7
1999–50.979.9
199896.450.478.9
199795.850.878.1
1996–50.377.9
1995–50.278
1994–50.478.3
1993–51.478
1992–5277.7
1991–5277.8
1990–52.877.3
1989–53.577.6
1988–53.776.6
1987–55.675.8
1986–57.475.3
1985–58.674
198092.1–75.8
197584.2–72.9
197081–69
196566–66
196055.2–63.1
195571.9–57.4
195061.5–51.4
194557.7–43.5
194054–40
193550.3–38.2
193046.6–36.4
192542.8–33
192039.1–30.5
191535.4–29.2
191031.7–28.1
190528–25.1
190027.1–23.3
189520.7–21.8
189017.2–20
188514–19
188011.4–17.2
18759.2–15.7
18707.4–13.2
18655.9–10.6
18604.7–9.3
18553.8–8
18503–6.8
18452.4–5.9
18401.9–5.2
18351.5–4.5
18301.2–4
18250.9–3.5
18200.7–3.1

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.

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