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You probably don’t realize that some things actually improve in the poorest countries. Today, most parents send both their sons and daughters to school.","It’s popular to believe that very few girls in poor countries get basic education. They probably can’t imagine that anything improves in the poorest countries.","Source: UNESCO","The share of girls finishing primary school was 64% in 2022[1], but we rounded it to 60% to avoid overstating progress. The definition of “low-income countries” is not mentioned in the question to make it short. Based on our knowledge surveys we know that people generally overestimate how many countries belong in that group, but such a misunderstanding wouldn’t make the wrong answers more possible. Actually the opposite, because the middle-income countries that many people believe are low-income countries have an average of 92% girls completing primary education.\nThe data measures the gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, which is the number of new entrants (enrollments minus repeaters) in the last grade of primary education, regardless of age and divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education, which is roughly at age 11, but differs across countries.\n\n[1]  [Female primary completion rate, UIS, UNESCO Institute for Statistics via World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.worldbank.org\u002Findicator\u002FSE.PRM.CMPT.FE.ZS?locations=XM-XP)  \n\n[2]  [UNESCO – Schooling girls and boys](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1wOmoy-URJ9wO4kDduaFYdONxNyhBuoYJEgX6codJhJg\u002Fedit#gid=0) \n\n[3]  [Standard ages for starting Secondary School in different countries](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.worldbank.org\u002Findicator\u002FSE.SEC.AGES)  \n\n[4]  [World Bank classification of low-income countries](https:\u002F\u002Fdatahelpdesk.worldbank.org\u002Fknowledgebase\u002Farticles\u002F906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups)","Many people wrongly think a minority of girls in low-income countries go to school, probably because they know there are still huge gender inequalities in the world and they don’t want to trivialize them. Out of 195 countries, today only 27 are called low-income and only 11 of them still have big gender inequalities in primary education: Afghanistan, Guinea, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Yemen, Chad, Niger, Eritrea, Mozambique and Somalia. \n\nForty years ago, across all low-income countries, many more boys finished primary school compared to girls but, since then, more parents across the world now prioritize their daughters’ education. Today, in most countries, both girls and boys miss school to almost the same extent, and when they do, it’s mainly because their families are extremely poor.\n\nIn most low-income countries in general, girls drop out of school more than boys when they reach puberty, partly because of bad school toilets. When countries become middle-income countries, schools are better prepared for female students. When measuring results, pretty much everywhere, girls outperform boys all the way up to higher education.\n\nThe Coronavirus pandemic resulted in more than 90% of countries globally closing schools at some point during 2020. The effect on how many girls (and boys) who might not have returned to school when they reopened is still unknown, but UNESCO projected that up to 11 million girls may not go back (particularly those aged 12-17).\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nBecause it shows an outdated view when it comes to development in low-income countries and gender equality. It is part of a worldview that simply pictures the world as “us and them”.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nThere have been lots of stories about girls not being able to go to school and rightly so - it is a problem that needs to be brought to attention and changed. However, regions and countries where that happens are extremely rare. People, though, hear about this issue in one country and they assume it is the same in all low-income countries, when they are the exception rather than the rule.\n\n### What are low-income countries?\nThe World Bank groups countries according to the average income of each person in a country. The four categories are low income, lower-middle income, upper-middle income and high income. As of 2024, there are 26 low-income countries, where the average annual income is $1,135 or less. Read more about how countries are classified [here](https:\u002F\u002Fdatahelpdesk.worldbank.org\u002Fknowledgebase\u002Farticles\u002F906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups). You can view which income group a country is in and how that has changed over time in [Gapminder’s tools](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$chart-type=bubbles&url=v1).\n\n### Why is it an important issue?\nUNICEF has a good overview [here](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unicef.org\u002Feducation\u002Fgirls-education) of why it is important that girls go to schools and the knock-on effect it has both for their lives and the societies they live in.\n\n### Can I trust this data?\nYes, you can. Data from low-income countries is typically the least reliable, however UNESCO has been compiling these statistics from low-income countries for many years. One of the issues with the data is that it shows children who are enrolled in the last year of primary school but not who finish, and so doesn’t count those who may have dropped out along the way. Because of that and the other unreliability with data for low-income countries, we round down the correct answer to 60% and put big differences between the three answer options. Independent experts we contacted agree that the UNESCO data is the most accurate representation of the true situation and that the correct answer we use is the ‘more right’ than the other two answer options.\n\n### How do you know people are wrong about this?\nWe have asked the question to the public in multiple countries over several years and in all places we asked, more than 90% have been wrong about this trend.\n","You are more than 50 years behind","You are 20 years behind"]