Education in South Asia 236 indicators covering education for South Asia. IndicatorLatest Year10-yr change Rank Lower secondary completion rate, female 88.3% 2024 up 3.1% 16th Lower secondary completion rate, male 84.9% 2024 up 4.2% 16th Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 57.47 million number 2019 up 51.3% 13th Primary education, duration 5 years 2025 unchanged 40th Primary education, pupils 160.82 million 2024 down 0.8% 20th Secondary education, duration 7 years 2025 unchanged 3rd Secondary education, pupils 152.88 million 2024 up 2.4% 13th Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, female 82.1% 2019 up 8.3% 33rd Gross enrolment ratio, primary and secondary, male 82.2% 2019 up 5.1% 34th School life expectancy, primary and secondary, female 9.8 years 2019 up 9.1% 33rd School life expectancy, primary and secondary, gender parity index 0.9928 GPI 2019 up 2.7% 22nd School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male 9.87 years 2019 up 6.2% 34th Persistence to last grade of primary, female 75.7% 2023 down 5.0% 32nd Persistence to last grade of primary, male 72.0% 2023 down 9.2% 31st Secondary education, vocational pupils 3.66 million 2018 up 120.6% 27th Number of infant deaths, female 301,828 2024 down 42.5% 16th Number of infant deaths, male 336,842 2024 down 40.5% 17th Number of under-five deaths, female 352,693 2024 down 46.6% 16th Number of under-five deaths, male 384,107 2024 down 43.6% 17th School life expectancy, tertiary, female 1.27 years 2019 up 117.9% 30th School life expectancy, tertiary, gender parity index 1.05 GPI 2019 up 46.6% 31st School life expectancy, tertiary, male 1.22 years 2019 up 48.6% 29th Teachers in primary education, female 3.21 million number 2019 up 46.3% 17th Enrolment in pre-primary education, female 27.62 million number 2019 up 53.0% 13th Percentage of enrolment in pre-primary education in private institutio 27.0% 2019 up 26.2% 37th Secondary education, vocational pupils 21.9% 2018 down 23.9% 42nd Share of male students in secondary education enrolled in vocational p 3.2% 2018 up 92.4% 42nd School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes 11.08 years 2019 up 12.5% 33rd Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, total 105.2% 2018 down 11.7% 14th Vocational and Technical enrolment (% of total secondary enrolment), f 2.4% 2024 up 244.9% 42nd Unemployment, female (% of female labor force) 4.2% 2025 down 45.2% 41st Unemployment, male (% of male labor force) 4.2% 2025 down 40.4% 39th Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) 4.2% 2025 down 41.7% 40th Primary education, teachers 58.3% 2024 up 15.2% 32nd Teachers in pre-primary education, both sexes 2.14 million number 2019 up 86.0% 16th Repeaters, primary, total 1.3% 2018 down 73.1% 34th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, both sexes 7.3% 2019 down 23.4% 19th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes 1.61 million number 2019 up 62.0% 21st Persistence to grade 5, total 74.2% 2023 down 9.0% 10th Number of deaths ages 5-9 years 54,240 2024 down 51.3% 20th Number of deaths ages 10-14 years 62,475 2024 down 37.5% 20th Number of deaths ages 15-19 years 110,737 2024 down 26.0% 19th Number of deaths ages 20-24 years 152,500 2024 down 20.5% 19th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, female 103.8% 2018 down 11.7% 15th Gross intake ratio in first grade of primary education, male 106.5% 2018 down 11.7% 16th School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, gender parity index 0.9986 GPI 2019 up 5.6% 26th Repeaters, primary, female 1.2% 2018 down 74.8% 31st Repeaters, primary, male 1.4% 2018 down 71.4% 35th Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are female 90.2% 2019 down 2.9% 32nd Teachers in pre-primary education, female 1.93 million number 2019 up 80.6% 17th School enrollment, primary 87.8% 2018 up 1.3% 27th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, female 8.0% 2019 down 15.0% 19th Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age, male 6.7% 2019 down 30.9% 19th Gross enrolment ratio, primary to tertiary, both sexes 65.9% 2019 up 10.0% 34th Trained teachers in primary education 87.7% 2024 up 16.7% 9th Teachers in tertiary education programmes, female 655,003 number 2019 up 74.0% 22nd Enrolment in primary education, female 82.35 million number 2019 down 6.3% 15th Secondary education, teachers 47.5% 2024 up 13.8% 33rd School enrollment, primary, female 86.8% 2018 up 0.8% 27th School enrollment, primary, male 88.6% 2018 up 1.7% 26th ← Previous Page 2 of 4 Next →