Maldives

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
350,000	13%	2.3	$6,000	37.4	0.7 (Medium)

Pre-Primary

77 Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Grade 1 Entrants With ECCE Experience 97%	School Life Expectancy (years) 3.20

Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 3 standard deviations and growing by 1.3 per year
ECCE Experience	Above average by 2.6 standard deviations and falling by 0.6 per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 3.1 standard deviations and growing by 0.1 per year

Primary

89 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) 548%	School Life Expectancy (years) 5.05

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.2 standard deviations and growing by 0.5 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 548% increase between 2000 and 2015, growing by 270 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 0.6 standard deviations and growing by 0.29 per year

Lower Secondary

70 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) -13%	School Life Expectancy (years) 5.5

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.8 standard deviations and growing by 2.3 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 13% decrease between 2000 and 2015, falling by 10 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 0.7 standard deviations and growing by 0.05 per year

Upper Secondary

82 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Youth Unemployment 25.4%	Gross Enrolment Ratio 108.45

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 1.6 standard deviations and growing by 2.7 per year
Youth Unemployment	Above average by 1.1 standard deviations and growing by 0.1 per year
Gross Enrolment Ratio	Above average by 2.3 standard deviations and growing by 1.8 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.	1.07	0.91	0.74	1.04

		Urban	Rural
Urban-Rural	Primary Dropout Rate	0.3	0.7

		Top 20%	Bottom 20%
Income	Students with 1 Year ECCE	100%	96%
Income	Primary Dropout Rate	0.4%	0.9%

Shadow Education	A 2012 study remarked that private tutoring "is a tradition and a culture in the Maldives and is practiced on a large scale."

Quality

Funding (% of GDP)	Funding (% of Budget)
4.9%	20.44%

Youth Literacy Rate	Adult Literacy Rate
55%	37%

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)	0.74	Funding (% of GDP)	2.1	Funding (% of GDP)	1.92	Funding (% of GDP)
Teacher-Student Ratio	53	Teacher-Student Ratio	42	Teacher-Student Ratio	41	Teacher-Student Ratio	6
Trained Teachers	57%	Trained Teachers	56%	Trained Teachers	67%	Trained Teachers	75%