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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Education > Female enrolment share > Primary level

DEFINITION: Girls' enrolment share, primary level is the number of girls enrolled in primary school, expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in primary school.

CONTENTS

# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH
1 Lesotho 50.6% 2000
=2 Rwanda 50% 2000
=2 Namibia 50% 2000
4 Tanzania 49.9% 2000
5 Botswana 49.7% 2000
6 Gabon 49.6% 2000
7 Kenya 49.5% 2000
8 Seychelles 49.3% 2000
9 Mauritius 49.2% 2000
10 Zimbabwe 49.1% 2000
11 Madagascar 49% 2000
=12 Malawi 48.9% 2000
=12 Cape Verde 48.9% 2000
=14 Swaziland 48.6% 2000
=14 South Africa 48.6% 2000
16 Mauritania 48.2% 2000
17 Zambia 48.1% 2000
18 Sao Tome and Principe 47.9% 2000
=19 The Gambia 47.6% 2000
=19 Equatorial Guinea 47.6% 2000
=21 Ghana 47.4% 2000
=21 Uganda 47.4% 2000
23 Angola 46.9% 2000
24 Senegal 46.5% 2000
25 Cameroon 46.2% 2000
26 Comoros 45.9% 2000
27 Sudan 45.1% 2002
28 Eritrea 45% 2000
29 Nigeria 44.5% 1995
30 Burundi 44.4% 2000
31 Togo 44.3% 2000
=32 Sierra Leone 43.3% 2000
=32 Mozambique 43.3% 2000
34 Cote d'Ivoire 43.2% 2000
35 Djibouti 42.8% 2000
36 Mali 41.7% 2000
37 Burkina Faso 41.3% 2000
38 Guinea 41.1% 2000
=39 Liberia 40.8% 2002
=39 Central African Republic 40.8% 2000
=41 Ethiopia 40.6% 2000
=41 Benin 40.6% 2000
43 Guinea-Bissau 40.2% 2002
44 Niger 39.6% 2000
45 Chad 38.7% 2000

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