Education in Papua New Guinea 1,138 indicators covering education for Papua New Guinea. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Completion rate, upper secondary education, male (modelled data) 14.9% 2025 up 13.4% 148th Completion rate, upper secondary education, adjusted gender parity 0.9086 modelled data 2025 up 21.4% 138th Completion rate, upper secondary education, female (modelled data) 13.5% 2025 up 37.6% 147th Completion rate, upper secondary education, both sexes (modelled data) 14.2% 2025 up 23.3% 150th Completion rate, lower secondary education, male (modelled data) 32.2% 2025 up 1.1% 151st Completion rate, lower secondary education, adjusted gender parity 1.23 modelled data 2025 up 10.1% 11th Completion rate, lower secondary education, female (modelled data) 42.0% 2025 up 16.1% 140th Completion rate, lower secondary education, both sexes (modelled data) 36.9% 2025 up 8.7% 148th Teachers in secondary education, male 9,160 2016 — 119th Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) 2.6% 2025 up 2.6% 163rd Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) 3.0% 2025 down 9.4% 138th Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 2.1% 2025 up 30.0% 171st Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, male 2.5% 1999 down 5.5% 185th Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, female 1.4% 1999 up 42.6% 185th Gross enrolment ratio for tertiary education, adjusted gender parity 0.5725 GPIA 1999 up 50.9% 176th Primary education, teachers 49.3% 2023 down 0.1% 172nd Teachers in pre-primary education, both sexes 8,607 number 2016 up 219.1% 90th Repeaters, primary, total 8.9% 2016 — 34th School life expectancy, tertiary, female 0.0705 years 1999 up 42.6% 187th School life expectancy, tertiary, adjusted gender parity index 0.5725 GPIA 1999 up 50.9% 176th School life expectancy, tertiary, male 0.1231 years 1999 down 5.5% 188th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes 5.78 years 1998 up 18.8% 184th Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, both sexes 82.7% 2023 up 16.4% 144th Persistence to grade 5, total 65.2% 1997 down 2.0% 148th Survival rate to the last grade of primary education, both sexes 56.2% 1997 down 4.4% 163rd Number of deaths ages 20-24 years 1,520 2024 up 2.4% 70th Number of deaths ages 15-19 years 1,303 2024 up 0.6% 67th Number of deaths ages 10-14 years 743 2024 down 4.7% 62nd Number of deaths ages 5-9 years 1,027 2024 down 12.9% 56th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male 131.0% 2016 up 303.9% 19th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female 124.3% 2016 up 341.2% 18th Children not in school 34.69 2023 up 8.6% 42nd School life expectancy, pre-primary, female 1.85 years 2023 up 8.6% 97th School life expectancy, pre-primary, male 1.87 years 2023 up 10.6% 94th School life expectancy, pre-primary, adjusted gender parity index 0.9924 GPIA 2023 down 1.7% 133rd Teachers in pre-primary education, male 4,826 2023 up 8.3% 25th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 4,621 2023 up 11.3% 109th World population level education 3.65 million 2100 up 9.7% 102nd Total number of people aged 15 with no education in millions by contin 233,300 2100 down 23.4% 46th Share of the population with no formal education with projections 1.42 2100 down 21.2% 37th Projections of the number of children per woman by education scenario 0.813 2100 down 6.0% 181st Repeaters, primary, male 8.9% 2016 — 41st Repeaters, primary, female 8.9% 2016 — 29th Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, female 81.2% 2023 up 21.2% 144th Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, male 84.1% 2023 up 12.6% 130th Gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, adjusted 0.9656 GPIA 2023 up 7.6% 164th Teachers in pre-primary education, female 4,150 number 2016 up 315.8% 111th Survival rate to the last grade of primary education,adjusted gender 0.945 GPIA 1997 down 3.1% 155th Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 1 GPIA 2018 down 4.6% 147th Survival rate to the last grade of primary education, male 57.6% 1997 down 3.0% 145th Survival rate to the last grade of primary education, female 54.5% 1997 down 6.0% 148th Gross intake ratio to the last grade of lower secondary general 41.9% 2023 down 29.2% 166th Gross enrolment ratio, primary to tertiary, both sexes 34.0% 1998 up 25.9% 181st Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in South 5 2023 — 109th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in 0 2023 — 154th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in Central 20 2023 up 1,900.0% 166th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in the 1 2023 — 180th Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in the 550 2023 down 12.1% 41st Total outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying 773 2023 up 3.1% 172nd Outbound internationally mobile tertiary students studying in North 101 2023 up 53.0% 192nd ← Previous Page 5 of 19 Next →