Pakistan
Background Information
Region
South Asia
World Bank income group
Lower middle income
Percent of population aged 10-24
30% (UNFPA, 2020)
Total primary school age population (both sexes)
25,106,458 (UIS, 2020)
Total secondary school age population (both sexes)
31,988,369 (UIS, 2020)
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 18 (% of women aged 20-24)
21%
Source: UNSDG, 2013
Adolescent birth rate (per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
39
Source: UN Human Development Reports, 2018
Percentage of women who ever experienced physical violence since age 15 (% of women 15-49)
28%
Source: DHS, 2018
Percentage of married women employed in the last 12 months (% of married or in-union women 15-49)
19%
Source: DHS, 2018
Education Snapshot Back to Top
Number of years of free primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks (Years)
12
Source: UIS, 2019
Expenditure on education as a percentage of total government expenditure % GDP spent on education
Source: UIS, 2017
Proportion of schools with access to single-sex basic sanitation facilities
No data available
Proportion of students at the end of primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading
-
Female 54%
-
Male 51%
Female: UIS, 2016
Male: UIS, 2016
Proportion of students at the end of primary education achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in mathematics
-
Female 49%
-
Male 48%
Female: UIS, 2016
Male: UIS, 2016
Completion rate
Primary school age
-
Female 56%
-
Male 64%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Lower secondary school age
-
Female 45%
-
Male 55%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Upper secondary school age
-
Female 23%
-
Male 24%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Out-of-school rate
Primary school
-
Female 27%
-
Male 19%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Lower secondary school
-
Female 32%
-
Male 22%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Upper secondary school
-
Female 54%
-
Male 37%
Female: UIS, 2018
Male: UIS, 2018
Programs Back to Top
Research Project/Report/Study
Adolescent Girls’ Voices on Enhancing their own Productivity
Network/Convening/Conference
Asia Pacific Region National Education Coalitions COVID-19 Zoom Conference
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Australia Awards Scholarships
Project/Program
Balochistan Education Project
Network/Convening/Conference
Better Life, Better Future
Project/Program
Broad Class Listen to Learn Interactive Radio Instruction Program
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
COVID-19 Initiative: Objectives to address the Immediate and Long-term Implications of the Pandemic on Girls' Education
Research Project/Report/Study
COVID-19 in Pakistan: A Phone Survey to Assess Education, Economic, and Health-Related Outcomes
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Creating Pathways for the Educational Success of Girls
Project/Program
Curriculum for Accelerated Learning Programme
Research Project/Report/Study
DeliverED Initiative
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Education and Training
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Enough
Project/Program
GIRLS Inspire project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
GPE and COVID-19
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Girls Learn Women Earn
Project/Program
Girls' Right to Education Programme in Pakistan: Support to National Capacity Building to Realize Girls' Right to Education Programme in Pakistan
Network/Convening/Conference
Her Choice
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Higher Education Development in Pakistan
Advocacy Campaign/Project
Keeping Girls in School
Project/Program
LitClub
Project/Program
Literacy Boost
Project/Program
Mobile Learning Facilities
Project/Program
More Than Brides Alliance: Marriage: No Child's Play
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
Pakistan: Expanding equal access to learning during coronavirus
Project/Program
Pakistan’s National Cash Transfer Programme, the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP)
Research Project/Report/Study
Partnership for Research on Progress and Resilience in Education (PREPARE)
Research Project/Report/Study
Programmatic approaches to the gender-related impacts of COVID-19 on education: Lessons from 2020
Research Project/Report/Study
Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE)
Research Project/Report/Study
Strengthening Monitoring and Reporting of Attacks on Education
Project/Program
Tine Girls Model School Project
Funding Initiative/Portfolio
UNESCO Malala Fund for Girls’ Right to Education
Research Project/Report/Study
Who Is Going Back to School? A Four-Country Rapid Survey in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan