Low- and middle-income country scores
This report card examines the current status of girls’ education in 120 countries using official government data on progress (SDG score) and assessment of policy frameworks (policy score) proven to help girls learn and lead.
The heat map below provides a visual representation of country scores. Green shading indicates a higher average score across SDG 4 benchmark and policy indicators, while orange shading represents a lower average score.
Country Scores
Low- and middle-income country scores
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Africa (Sub-Saharan) scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Benin 56.78 55.06 56 Botswana 75.33 47.49 61 Burkina Faso 51.51 55.79 54 Burundi 63.11 51.65 57 Cape Verde 78.76 61.77 70 Cameroon 58.5 66.76 63 Central African Republic 41.64 42.99 42 Chad 42.93 51.08 47 Comoros 58.15 32.53 45 Congo 61.19 53.29 57 Côte d'Ivoire 56.6 64.57 61 Democratic Republic of Congo 59.32 51.09 55 Djibouti 71.38 54.89 63 Eritrea No Data 46.63 47 Eswatini 68.99 56.93 63 Ethiopia 57.84 46.84 52 Gabon 60.54 49.21 55 Gambia 70.15 48.68 59 Ghana 68.06 50.41 59 Guinea 46.42 62.99 55 Guinea-Bissau 55.65 41.89 49 Kenya 77.93 68.46 73 Lesotho 59.46 59.64 60 Liberia 50.65 51.62 51 Madagascar 49.49 60.42 55 Malawi 55.34 59.26 57 Mali 46.77 38.7 43 Mauritania 56.86 45.44 51 Mozambique 62.49 57.72 60 Namibia 58.61 70.93 65 Niger 39.97 50.48 45 Nigeria 63.48 42.17 53 Rwanda 59.19 63.87 62 Sao Tome and Principe 67.11 45.18 56 Senegal 54.41 52.18 53 Sierra Leone 56.79 34.73 46 Somalia 64.59 38.28 51 South Africa 76.08 62.8 69 South Sudan 45.49 40.31 43 Togo 61.13 56.44 59 Uganda 57.68 62.98 60 United Republic of Tanzania 50.93 64.46 58 Zambia 65.27 66.82 66 Zimbabwe 52.61 57.99 55 -
Asia (Central and Southern) scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Bangladesh 63.74 44.63 54 Bhutan 74 54.99 64 India 78.83 56.75 68 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 84.95 45.62 65 Kazakhstan 90.56 66.94 79 Kyrgyzstan 85.73 76.65 81 Maldives 77.56 67.97 73 Nepal 73.39 50.27 62 Pakistan 58.38 51.12 55 Sri Lanka 76.71 60.38 69 Tajikistan 71.4 64.72 68 Turkmenistan 86.85 65.96 76 Uzbekistan 82.58 54.75 69 -
Asia (Eastern and Southeastern) scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score China 83.29 68.56 76 Indonesia 80.63 58.91 70 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 64.47 60.68 63 Malaysia 81.66 47.17 64 Mongolia 83.39 73.56 78 Myanmar 64.13 50.34 57 Philippines 76.96 76.67 77 Thailand 83.58 61.18 72 Timor-Leste 69.57 54.15 62 Viet Nam 78.05 69.28 74 -
Latin America and the Caribbean scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Brazil 83.7 74.37 79 Colombia 87.15 64.51 76 Costa Rica 87.27 68.77 78 Cuba 71.66 62.92 67 Dominican Republic 78.55 67.53 73 Ecuador 82.22 76.43 79 El Salvador 78.56 72.04 75 Grenada 71.04 65.44 68 Guatemala 60.37 62.78 62 Guyana 78.52 64.8 72 Haiti 59.01 51.56 55 Honduras 63.24 69.46 66 Jamaica 81.9 58.04 70 Mexico 83.97 72.9 78 Nicaragua 67.37 68.35 68 Paraguay 74.38 76.27 75 Peru 79.96 72.39 76 Saint Lucia 85.9 56.37 71 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 83 59.78 71 Suriname 71.93 46.55 59 Venezuela 89.19 64.42 77 -
Northern America and Europe scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Belarus 85.07 80.61 83 Bolivia 85.79 66.73 76 Bulgaria 80.37 84.13 82 Montenegro 80.51 65.56 73 Republic of Moldova 85.4 69.66 78 Russian Federation 87.93 65.68 77 Ukraine 85.85 74.68 80 -
Oceania scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Micronesia (Federated States of) 66.58 33.67 50 Papua New Guinea 60.4 43.31 52 Samoa 73.8 49.6 62 Solomon Islands 70.4 25.28 48 Tonga 76.15 36.74 56 Vanuatu 65.38 42.63 54 -
Western Asia and Northern Africa scores, use column header buttons to sort Country SDG Score Policy Score Avg. Score Armenia 77.2 72.49 75 Azerbaijan 83.27 71.51 77 Egypt 75.87 66.05 71 Georgia 81.46 70.83 76 Iraq 63.1 60.3 62 Jordan 76.16 55.2 66 Lebanon 51.04 54.47 53 Morocco 76.68 76.01 76 Palestine 90.95 55.04 73 Tunisia 80.39 51.59 66 Turkey 75.38 64.11 70 Yemen 57.02 35.6 46
Our Recommendations
Leaders of low- and middle-income countries should:
- Adopt and implement policies that have been proven to improve girls’ opportunities for the future
- Recommit to spending 20% of budgets and 6% of gross domestic product (GDP) on education
- Redouble efforts to reach low-income and marginalised girls
Leaders of all countries should:
- Extend the right to education to include one year of pre-primary education, in addition to 12 years of school
- Ensure education is a force for gender equality
- Revise curriculums so that girls gain the knowledge and skills to cope with and address 21st century challenges
- Make education systems resilient to the impacts of shocks
- Collect and increase the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable gender-disaggregated data
- Leverage the National SDG 4 Benchmark process to adopt further benchmark values on gender targets