Jamaica

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
2,720,000	13%	2.3	$4,000	45.5	0.72 (High)

Pre-Primary

73 Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Grade 1 Entrants With ECCE Experience 83%	School Life Expectancy (years) 2.45

Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.7 standard deviations and falling by 1.4 per year
ECCE Experience	Above average by 1 standard deviations and has little recorded momentum
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 0.7 standard deviations and falling by 0.06 per year

Primary

86 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) 130%	School Life Expectancy (years) 5.63

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Average and falling by 0.4 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 130% increase between 2000 and 2015, growing by 1830 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 0.1 standard deviations and falling by 0.02 per year

Lower Secondary

71 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) -86%	School Life Expectancy (years) 4.84

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.2 standard deviations and falling by 0.9 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 86% decrease between 2000 and 2015, falling by 900 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 0.4 standard deviations and falling by 0.01 per year

Upper Secondary

83 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Youth Unemployment 26.21%	Gross Enrolment Ratio 96.37

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.5 standard deviations and growing by 0.7 per year
Youth Unemployment	Above average by 0.7 standard deviations and growing by 0.1 per year
Gross Enrolment Ratio	Above average by 0.4 standard deviations and falling by 0.1 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.	1.01	0.99	0.99	1.11

		Urban	Rural
Urban-Rural	Primary Dropout Rate	0.2	0.2

		Top 20%	Bottom 20%
Income	Students with 1 Year ECCE	63%	27%
Income	Primary Dropout Rate	0.1%	0.3%

Shadow Education	A 2013 survey of Grade 11 students found that 90.3% received extra lessons.

Quality

Funding (% of GDP)	Funding (% of Budget)
2.42%	9.84%

Youth Literacy Rate	Adult Literacy Rate
91%	82%

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)	1.05	Funding (% of GDP)	1.74	Funding (% of GDP)	1.15	Funding (% of GDP)
Teacher-Student Ratio	9	Teacher-Student Ratio	15	Teacher-Student Ratio	19	Teacher-Student Ratio	16
Trained Teachers	69%	Trained Teachers	83%	Trained Teachers	77%	Trained Teachers	74%