Mexico vs United Kingdom: Girls in primary school

Girls in primary school: 96.4% in Mexico in 1998 and 99.4% in United Kingdom in 2017, by Our World in Data estimates. In 1980 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 4.9 percentage points, or 1.05 times that in Mexico.

Watch it change on the map

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

MexicoUnited KingdomWorld

What the numbers say

United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1820.
The world as a whole: 75.8% in 1980.

Every year

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

Year	Mexico	United Kingdom	World
2018	–	–	88.2
2017	–	99.4	88.2
2016	–	99.6	88.3
2015	–	–	88.2
2014	–	–	88.3
2013	–	99.6	88.2
2012	–	98.3	88.2
2011	–	98.2	88.1
2010	–	98	87.9
2009	–	97.8	87.9
2008	–	98.6	87.6
2007	–	96.8	87.2
2006	–	98.7	86
2005	–	–	85.4
2004	–	98.2	84.7
2003	–	–	83.5
2002	–	99.9	81.4
2001	–	–	81
2000	–	–	80.7
1999	–	–	79.9
1998	96.4	–	78.9
1997	95.8	–	78.1
1996	–	–	77.9
1995	–	–	78
1994	–	–	78.3
1993	–	–	78
1992	–	96.8	77.7
1991	–	98.4	77.8
1990	–	–	77.3
1989	–	–	77.6
1988	–	99.9	76.6
1987	–	98.2	75.8
1986	–	95.3	75.3
1985	–	93.7	74
1980	92.1	97	75.8
1975	84.2	98	72.9
1970	81	98	69
1965	66	100	66
1960	55.2	100	63.1
1955	71.9	100	57.4
1950	61.5	100	51.4
1945	57.7	100	43.5
1940	54	100	40
1935	50.3	100	38.2
1930	46.6	100	36.4
1925	42.8	100	33
1920	39.1	100	30.5
1915	35.4	100	29.2
1910	31.7	100	28.1
1905	28	100	25.1
1900	27.1	91.3	23.3
1895	20.7	82.6	21.8
1890	17.2	73.9	20
1885	14	65.2	19
1880	11.4	56.4	17.2
1875	9.2	47.7	15.7
1870	7.4	39	13.2
1865	5.9	35.4	10.6
1860	4.7	31.9	9.3
1855	3.8	28.3	8
1850	3	24.7	6.8
1845	2.4	22.5	5.9
1840	1.9	20.4	5.2
1835	1.5	18.5	4.5
1830	1.2	16.8	4
1825	0.9	15.1	3.5
1820	0.7	13.6	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

Mexico vs United Kingdom

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Learning-adjusted schoolingMexico: 8.8 years in 2020United Kingdom: 11.5 years in 2020

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Conflict

Deaths in conflictsMexico: 14,210 deaths in 2022United Kingdom: 0 deaths in 2022