Education in Arab World 298 indicators covering education for Arab World. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Secondary education, duration 6 years 2025 unchanged 11th Secondary education, pupils 40.79 million 2024 up 33.9% 35th Secondary education, teachers, female, per square kilometre 0.0887 units per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% 30th Secondary education, general pupils, annual growth rate 2.05 % change on previous year 2018 up 5.2% 13th Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, female 82.5% 2019 up 6.8% 32nd Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, male 86.9% 2019 up 3.9% 32nd School life expectancy, primary and secondary, female 9.87 years 2019 up 9.9% 32nd School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index 0.9481 GPI 2019 up 3.4% 35th School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male 10.41 years 2019 up 6.3% 30th Government expenditure on education, total 3.8% 2020 down 10.9% 18th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), per unit of 0 number per US$ of GDP 2019 down 8.6% 36th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), per square 0.4568 number per square kilometre 2019 up 27.0% 43rd Persistence to last grade of primary, female 83.3% 2023 up 9.3% 21st Persistence to last grade of primary, male 81.3% 2023 up 7.4% 21st Secondary education, vocational pupils 3.33 million 2018 up 18.1% 34th Secondary education, vocational pupils, per capita 0.0076 units per person 2018 down 5.8% 25th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 4.03 % change on previous year 2019 down 75.8% 4th Secondary education, vocational pupils, per square kilometre 0.2539 units per square kilometre 2018 up 1.3% 30th Number of infant deaths, female 132,854 2024 down 12.6% 22nd Number of infant deaths, male 167,415 2024 down 11.8% 22nd Number of under-five deaths, female 170,155 2024 down 11.3% 21st Number of under-five deaths, male 208,389 2024 down 10.7% 22nd School life expectancy, tertiary, female 1.62 years 2018 up 36.2% 28th School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index 1.09 GPI 2018 up 6.5% 26th School life expectancy, tertiary, male 1.48 years 2018 up 27.9% 28th Secondary education, vocational pupils, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP 2018 down 14.4% 28th Teachers in primary education, female 1.53 million number 2019 up 39.3% 32nd Teachers in primary education, female (number), per capita 0.0034 number per person 2019 up 11.7% 14th Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre 0.1169 number per square kilometre 2019 up 19.4% 31st Teachers in primary education, female (number), per unit of GDP 0 number per US$ of GDP 2019 down 14.0% 24th Enrolment in pre-primary education, female 2.91 million number 2019 up 54.0% 38th Percentage of enrolment in pre-primary education in private 43.9% 2019 down 10.7% 12th Secondary education, vocational pupils 37.9% 2018 down 6.2% 37th Share of male students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 11.8% 2018 up 7.3% 21st School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes 11.69 years 2018 up 11.2% 32nd Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total 96.2% 2018 down 2.0% 39th Secondary education, vocational pupils, annual growth rate 2.98 % change on previous year 2018 up 185.2% 6th Vocational and Technical enrolment (% of total secondary enrolment) 7.2% 2024 down 6.7% 27th Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 16.0% 2025 down 20.8% 1st Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) 7.5% 2025 down 13.9% 4th Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) 9.2% 2025 down 17.6% 1st Primary education, teachers 67.5% 2024 up 10.1% 24th Teachers in pre-primary education, both sexes 277,374 number 2019 up 47.0% 38th Teachers in primary education, female (number), annual growth rate 4.3 % change on previous year 2019 up 399.7% 8th Repeaters, primary, total 5.8% 2018 down 15.7% 12th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, both sexes 14.7% 2019 down 6.5% 11th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes 511,382 number 2019 up 50.7% 31st Number of deaths ages 5-9 years 41,550 2024 up 14.3% 26th Number of deaths ages 10-14 years 30,659 2024 up 28.9% 30th Number of deaths ages 15-19 years 53,494 2024 up 21.0% 30th Number of deaths ages 20-24 years 68,855 2024 up 26.2% 32nd Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female 94.7% 2018 down 1.5% 40th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male 97.7% 2018 down 2.4% 38th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index 0.9647 GPI 2018 up 4.5% 33rd Repeaters, primary, female 4.2% 2018 down 20.0% 12th Repeaters, primary, male 7.1% 2018 down 12.8% 11th Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are female 93.5% 2019 up 6.4% 27th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 259,444 number 2019 up 56.4% 38th School enrollment, primary 84.1% 2018 up 1.7% 32nd Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, female 16.1% 2019 down 11.9% 11th ← Previous Page 3 of 5 Next →