Table 3.

Gender Gap in Educational Attainment

	Highest level attained among age 15+ population 1				Mean years of schooling1		% of girls enrollment to total enrollment2
Year	no schooling	primary	secondary	Tertiary	male	female	Primary	Secondary	Tertiary
1950 – 51	74.7	22.6	2.1	0.6	1.54	0.40	28.1	13.3	10.0
1955 – 56	73.6	23.6	2.2	0.6	1.58	0.44	30.5	15.4	14.6
1960 – 61	72.1	24.8	2.5	0.6	1.68	0.50	32.6	20.5	16.0
1965 – 66	70.9	24.0	4.1	0.9	1.90	0.64	36.2	22.0	20.4
1970 – 71	66.2	27.1	5.6	1.1	2.26	0.83	37.4	25.0	20.0
1975 – 76	65.9	20.6	11.7	1.8	2.78	1.10	38.1	26.9	23.2
1980 – 81	66.3	12.6	18.7	2.3	3.25	1.37	38.6	29.6	26.7
1985 – 86	58.5	16.5	21.8	3.2	3.93	1.78	40.3	30.3	33.0
1990 – 91	51.6	18.7	25.6	4.0	4.56	2.25	41.5	32.9	33.3
1995 – 96	47.4	19.4	29.1	4.1	4.92	2.61	43.1	36.1	37.2
2000 – 01	43.0	19.7	32.9	4.5	5.31	3.03	43.7	38.6	36.9

¹Source: 1. Barro & Lee (2012)

²GoI (2008)