Central Africa
What the available pre-primary enrolment records show in Central Africa
Gabon and Cameroon last reported gross pre-primary enrolment ratios above 35% in 2019 in this series. The other four countries’ latest observations were lower and came from different years. The records show both the gaps in reported enrolment and the gaps in reporting.
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The year beside each country is the date of the figure.
Gabon and Cameroon can be compared in 2019
Gabon recorded 42.99% and Cameroon 35.62% in 2019, a gap of 7.37 percentage points. Their earlier shared observations for 2011 were 35.23% and 26.66% respectively. In this published series, Cameroon has relatively frequent records while Gabon has observations in only five years from 1990. Source 1
The Republic of the Congo and DR Congo reported different levels
The Republic of the Congo recorded 14.29% in 2018 and DR Congo 5.68% in that same year. DR Congo later reported 6.86% in 2020. The Republic of the Congo’s 2015 ratio was 19.13%, above its 2018 figure. Use the common 2018 year for the direct comparison. Source 1
The lowest chart entries have different reporting dates
The Central African Republic’s latest available ratio was 2.93% in 2017. Chad’s latest was 1.27% in 2021. Both figures are below their respective 2011 readings, 5.09% and 1.73%. Missing years leave gaps that the table does not fill. Source 1
A gross ratio is an enrolment measure
Gross enrolment counts all students enrolled at the pre-primary level and divides by the number of children in the official age group for that level. It can include students outside the official ages and depends on each education system’s definition of the level. The ratio cannot be read directly as the share of age-eligible children attending on a typical day. Source 2