Education in New Zealand 2,563 indicators covering education for New Zealand. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Teachers in secondary education, female 23,475 2024 up 6.8% 90th Percentage of teachers in secondary education who are female 64.4% 2024 up 3.2% 73rd Vocational and Technical enrolment (% of total secondary enrolment), f 18.8% 2024 up 1.6% 43rd Teachers in secondary education, male 12,951 2024 down 2.1% 109th Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) 5.1% 2025 down 6.3% 96th Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) 4.9% 2025 down 1.7% 95th Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 5.3% 2025 down 10.6% 102nd Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, male 59.4% 2024 down 11.4% 49th Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, female 96.3% 2024 up 1.1% 27th Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, adjusted gender parity 1.38 GPIA 2024 up 6.7% 39th Primary education, teachers 84.6% 2024 up 0.9% 62nd Teachers in pre-primary education, both sexes 14,815 number 2018 — 64th Repeaters, primary, total 3.8% 1992 up 14.7% 68th School life expectancy, tertiary, female 4.51 years 2024 down 6.7% 36th School life expectancy, tertiary, adjusted gender parity index 1.37 GPIA 2024 up 8.4% 45th School life expectancy, tertiary, male 2.86 years 2024 down 20.1% 54th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, both sexes 0.3% 2018 down 81.6% 169th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes 19.21 years 2024 up 0.7% 5th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes 16,834 number 2018 up 12.6% 70th Number of deaths ages 20-24 years 173 2024 down 7.5% 135th Number of deaths ages 15-19 years 119 2024 down 17.9% 132nd Number of deaths ages 10-14 years 40 2024 up 2.6% 136th Number of deaths ages 5-9 years 24 2024 down 17.2% 145th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male 97.9% 2017 — 129th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female 98.8% 2017 — 124th Children not in school 14.27 2024 up 75.9% 84th School life expectancy, pre-primary, female 1.76 years 2024 down 4.4% 108th School life expectancy, pre-primary, male 1.76 years 2024 down 2.4% 107th School life expectancy, pre-primary, adjusted gender parity index 0.9993 GPIA 2024 down 2.0% 110th Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are female 96.9% 2024 down 1.0% 103rd Teachers in pre-primary education, male 478 2024 up 75.8% 69th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 15,027 2024 up 17.9% 67th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index 1.11 GPI 2018 up 0.6% 18th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, female 8,511 2024 up 15.8% 65th Percentage of teachers in tertiary education who are female 54.3% 2024 up 10.6% 24th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, male 7,167 2024 down 6.1% 81st World population level education 3.62 million 2100 up 3.8% 103rd Total number of people aged 15 with no education in millions by contin 4,300 2100 down 42.7% 136th Share of the population with no formal education with projections 0.0713 2100 down 42.0% 158th Projections of the number of children per woman by education scenario 1.24 2100 down 3.4% 30th Repeaters, primary, male 4.0% 1992 up 12.6% 66th Repeaters, primary, female 3.5% 1992 up 17.4% 63rd School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female 19.69 years 2024 down 0.9% 10th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, adjusted gender parity 1.05 GPIA 2024 down 3.0% 93rd School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, male 18.74 years 2024 up 2.6% 5th Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are female 97.3% 2018 — 90th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 14,422 number 2018 — 62nd School enrollment, secondary, private 9.6% 2024 down 4.5% 113th School enrollment, primary 99.1% 2017 — 14th Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 0.953 GPIA 2024 down 1.6% 209th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, female 0.6% 2016 — 146th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, male 1.3% 2016 — 127th Gross enrolment ratio, primary to tertiary, both sexes 104.7% 2018 up 1.9% 11th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in South 4 2023 down 60.0% 113th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in 2 2023 down 71.4% 119th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in Central 40 2023 up 100.0% 157th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in the 59 2023 up 43.9% 105th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in the 647 2023 down 55.4% 37th Total outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying 2,394 2023 down 16.6% 139th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in North 1,537 2023 up 25.7% 115th ← Previous Page 5 of 43 Next →