Education in Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 294 indicators covering education for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Primary education, pupils 91.90 million 2024 up 26.2% 25th Secondary education, duration 6 years 2025 unchanged 11th Secondary education, pupils 68.09 million 2024 up 40.1% 26th Secondary education, teachers, female, per square kilometre 0.1818 units per square kilometre 2023 up 53.3% 19th Secondary education, general pupils, annual growth rate 1.86 % change on previous year 2018 up 199.1% 14th Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, female 91.9% 2019 up 8.6% 22nd Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, male 95.1% 2019 up 5.5% 16th School life expectancy, primary and secondary, female 11 years 2019 up 8.9% 21st School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index 0.9619 GPI 2019 up 3.0% 32nd School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male 11.44 years 2019 up 5.8% 17th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), per unit of 0 number per US$ of GDP 2019 down 4.7% 38th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), per square 0.4859 number per square kilometre 2019 up 47.0% 39th Persistence to last grade of primary, female 80.1% 2023 up 2.6% 25th Persistence to last grade of primary, male 76.4% 2023 down 5.5% 25th Secondary education, vocational pupils 4.24 million 2018 up 12.8% 25th Secondary education, vocational pupils, per capita 0.0058 units per person 2018 down 7.7% 28th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 4.05 % change on previous year 2019 down 54.2% 3rd Secondary education, vocational pupils, per square kilometre 0.3351 units per square kilometre 2018 up 12.9% 28th Number of infant deaths, female 255,787 2024 down 23.4% 18th Number of infant deaths, male 328,197 2024 down 22.4% 18th Number of under-five deaths, female 295,055 2024 down 25.2% 18th Number of under-five deaths, male 369,178 2024 down 23.6% 18th School life expectancy, tertiary, female 2.02 years 2019 up 36.6% 20th School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index 1.06 GPI 2019 up 2.2% 28th School life expectancy, tertiary, male 1.91 years 2019 up 33.7% 20th Secondary education, vocational pupils, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP 2018 down 19.5% 29th Teachers in primary education, female 1.63 million number 2019 up 37.2% 30th Teachers in primary education, female (number), per capita 0.0022 number per person 2019 up 13.1% 31st Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre 0.1286 number per square kilometre 2019 up 37.3% 28th Teachers in primary education, female (number), per unit of GDP 0 number per US$ of GDP 2019 down 11.0% 31st Enrolment in pre-primary education, female 2.98 million number 2019 up 49.7% 37th Percentage of enrolment in pre-primary education in private 51.8% 2019 up 13.8% 8th Secondary education, vocational pupils 37.7% 2018 down 4.6% 38th Share of male students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 13.5% 2018 up 12.7% 17th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes 13.19 years 2018 up 11.3% 20th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total 101.9% 2018 down 1.4% 24th Secondary education, vocational pupils, annual growth rate 2.57 % change on previous year 2018 up 179.5% 13th Vocational and Technical enrolment (% of total secondary enrolment) 6.5% 2024 down 13.5% 31st Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 12.1% 2025 down 15.1% 4th Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) 6.7% 2025 down 1.6% 7th Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) 7.8% 2025 down 7.0% 5th Primary education, teachers 64.8% 2024 up 9.1% 28th Teachers in pre-primary education, both sexes 286,644 number 2019 up 46.7% 37th Teachers in primary education, female (number), annual growth rate 4.29 % change on previous year 2019 up 559.3% 10th Repeaters, primary, total 5.4% 2018 down 16.5% 13th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, both sexes 5.2% 2019 down 22.7% 25th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes 791,095 number 2019 up 50.1% 27th Number of deaths ages 5-9 years 47,730 2024 down 12.1% 23rd Number of deaths ages 10-14 years 43,744 2024 up 4.3% 23rd Number of deaths ages 15-19 years 63,334 2024 down 2.1% 26th Number of deaths ages 20-24 years 76,276 2024 down 6.1% 28th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female 101.1% 2018 down 1.3% 25th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male 102.7% 2018 down 1.5% 25th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index 0.9748 GPI 2018 up 3.1% 32nd Repeaters, primary, female 3.9% 2018 down 20.9% 16th Repeaters, primary, male 6.7% 2018 down 13.5% 12th Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are female 92.8% 2019 up 4.6% 28th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 266,020 number 2019 up 53.5% 37th School enrollment, primary 93.7% 2018 up 2.9% 17th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, female 6.2% 2019 down 28.3% 25th ← Previous Page 3 of 5 Next →