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Education Outcomes: Enrolment & Attainment outcomes
Contextual Influences
Adjusted net attendance rates
Community-level
Adjusted net attendance rate for adolescents of lower secondary school age (%)
Adjusted net attendance rate for adolescents of upper secondary school age (%)
Control over earnings - Among currently married or in union women aged 15-49 employed in the past year and earning cash, the percent who decides how those earnings are used (%)
Country Region Income level Female Male Gap Female Male Gap Female
Angola Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 30.80 32.20 1.40 28.10 32.10 4.00 40.20
Benin Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 28.10 32.50 4.40 9.00 14.80 5.80 73.30
Botswana Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income - - - - - - -
Burkina Faso Sub-Saharan Africa Low income - - - - - - 78.40
Burundi Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 27.40 21.10 -6.30 11.50 12.60 1.00 21.20
Cabo Verde Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income - - - - - - -
Cameroon Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 53.20 51.50 -1.70 27.40 28.00 0.60 53.80
Central African Republic Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 12.60 14.00 1.50 4.30 6.50 2.20 -
Chad Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 12.00 16.60 4.60 4.90 8.40 3.50 71.00
Comoros Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 52.30 44.70 -7.60 28.70 25.30 -3.40 39.60
Congo Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 67.20 62.20 -5.00 35.10 37.80 2.60 64.70
Côte d'Ivoire Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 37.60 42.80 5.30 13.50 20.20 6.70 68.50
Democratic Republic of the Congo Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 31.50 32.50 1.00 32.90 35.90 3.00 28.60
Equatorial Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income - - - - - - -
Eritrea Sub-Saharan Africa Low income - - - - - - 56.20
Eswatini Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income - - - - - - 65.10
Ethiopia Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 29.30 25.20 -4.10 9.00 6.70 -2.30 29.80
Gabon Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income 58.50 50.60 -7.90 18.60 13.00 -5.60 50.30
Gambia, The Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 49.70 38.20 -11.50 - - - 84.70
Ghana Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 44.10 37.60 -6.40 19.30 19.90 0.70 62.80
Guinea Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 29.00 35.10 6.10 11.20 14.60 3.40 72.90
Guinea-Bissau Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 8.90 10.30 1.40 7.30 6.50 -0.80 -
Kenya Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 46.30 38.20 -8.10 36.80 34.30 -2.50 55.20
Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 66.90 42.30 -24.60 30.40 14.90 -15.50 33.10
Liberia Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 14.60 13.60 -1.00 11.30 11.70 0.40 26.20
Madagascar Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 31.50 23.00 -8.50 14.10 11.40 -2.70 30.30
Malawi Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 30.80 25.20 -5.60 18.40 16.70 -1.70 28.40
Mali Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 30.40 36.30 5.90 14.30 20.40 6.10 82.50
Mauritania Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 26.90 30.30 3.40 18.00 22.30 4.30 62.90
Mauritius Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income - - - - - - -
Mozambique Sub-Saharan Africa Low income - - - - - - 39.10
Namibia Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income 67.40 53.50 -13.90 28.10 20.20 -7.90 39.50
Niger Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 16.80 21.40 4.60 2.80 5.50 2.70 85.40
Nigeria Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 44.90 44.70 -0.20 35.00 34.00 -1.00 72.30
Rwanda Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 33.90 25.30 -8.60 17.20 12.50 -4.70 23.30
Sao Tome and Principe Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 60.50 50.30 -10.20 34.30 25.20 -9.00 74.00
Senegal Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 32.50 29.40 -3.20 17.80 16.80 -1.10 81.00
Sierra Leone Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 36.30 36.20 -0.10 27.50 29.90 2.40 36.60
Somalia Sub-Saharan Africa Low income - - - - - - -
South Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income 88.80 81.60 -7.20 72.30 67.20 -5.00 31.20
South Sudan Sub-Saharan Africa Low income - - - - - - -
Sudan Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 32.00 30.50 -1.50 30.30 27.80 -2.50 -
Togo Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 50.50 55.60 5.10 20.40 26.70 6.30 90.00
Uganda Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 20.50 18.20 -2.30 7.10 8.60 1.50 52.60
United Republic of Tanzania Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 30.50 25.00 -5.50 3.00 3.20 0.20 37.30
Zambia Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 46.20 45.40 -0.80 28.60 29.80 1.20 31.00
Zimbabwe Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 59.70 43.80 -15.90 36.40 37.30 0.90 32.40