Belize

Key:
	Indicator is moving in a upward trajectory (Based on 2008-2012 trend)
	Indicator is moving in a downward trajectory (Based on 2008-2012 trend)

Above average
	1 ≥ standard deviations
	0.7 standard deviations
	0.4 standard deviations
	0.1 standard deviations

Below average
	1 ≥ standard deviations
	0.7 standard deviations
	0.4 standard deviations
	0.1 standard deviations

Population	School Aged Pop	Birth Rate	GDP/pc (Constant)	Inequality (Gini)	Human Development Index
330,000	22%	2.7	$4,000	53.1	0.73 (High)

Pre-Primary

50 Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Grade 1 Entrants With ECCE Experience 69%	School Life Expectancy (years) 0.53

Net Enrolment Rate	Below average by 0.1 standard deviations and growing by 1.5 per year
ECCE Experience	Above average by 0.7 standard deviations and has little recorded momentum
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 1.4 standard deviations and growing by 0.05 per year

Primary

99 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) 34%	School Life Expectancy (years) 7.29

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.5 standard deviations and falling by 0.1 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 34% increase between 2000 and 2015, growing by 10 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 1 standard deviations and has little recorded momentum

Lower Secondary

78 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) 7%	School Life Expectancy (years) 5.31

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.4 standard deviations and growing by 1 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 7% increase between 2000 and 2015, growing by 6 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 0.2 standard deviations and growing by 0.01 per year

Upper Secondary

70 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Youth Unemployment 13.71%	Gross Enrolment Ratio 88.27

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.2 standard deviations and growing by 1.7 per year
Youth Unemployment	Below average by 0.3 standard deviations and falling by 0.1 per year
Gross Enrolment Ratio	Above average by 0 standard deviations and growing by 1.3 per year

Inequality

Disabilities

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol

Signed the Convention

Ratified the Convention

Signed the Protocol

Ratified the Protocol

	Pre-primary	Primary	Lower Secondary	Upper Secondary
Gender Parity Index 2015 Est.	1.05	1	1.06	1.17

		Urban	Rural
Urban-Rural	Primary Dropout Rate	0.7	0.8

		Top 20%	Bottom 20%
Income	Students with 1 Year ECCE	0.09%	65%
Income	Primary Dropout Rate	0.4%	0.8%

Shadow Education	Press coverage indicates that shadow education is a visible phenomenon, especially in urban areas.

Quality

Funding (% of GDP)	Funding (% of Budget)
6.74%	25.03%

Youth Literacy Rate	Adult Literacy Rate
88%	85%

Learning (Students at Lowest Benchmark)		Learning (Students at Highest Benchmark)
Math	N/A	Math	N/A
Science	N/A	Science	N/A
Reading	N/A	Reading	N/A

Pre-primary		Primary		Lower Secondary		Upper Secondary
Funding (% of GDP)	1.17	Funding (% of GDP)	2.52	Funding (% of GDP)	3.03	Funding (% of GDP)
Teacher-Student Ratio	16	Teacher-Student Ratio	22	Teacher-Student Ratio	15	Teacher-Student Ratio	9
Trained Teachers	25%	Trained Teachers	46%	Trained Teachers	34%	Trained Teachers	19%