Trinidad and Tobago

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
1,340,000	8%	1.8	$18,000	40.27	0.8 (High)

Pre-Primary

98 Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Grade 1 Entrants With ECCE Experience 90%	School Life Expectancy (years) 2.72

Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 1.6 standard deviations and growing by 2.9 per year
ECCE Experience	Above average by 1.2 standard deviations and growing by 1.7 per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 1 standard deviations and growing by 0.16 per year

Primary

97 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) -19%	School Life Expectancy (years) 7.51

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.4 standard deviations and falling by 0.1 per year
Out-Of-School Children	An estimated 19% decrease between 2000 and 2015, falling by 30 children per year
School Life Expectancy	Above average by 1.1 standard deviations and growing by 0.02 per year

Lower Secondary

73 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Out-Of-School Children Change (2000-2015) %	School Life Expectancy (years) 4.49

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.2 standard deviations and falling by 0.2 per year
Out-Of-School Children	Insufficient data available
School Life Expectancy	Below average by 0.6 standard deviations and growing by 0.08 per year

Upper Secondary

74 Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate 2015 Est.
Youth Unemployment 7.93%	Gross Enrolment Ratio 87

Adjusted Net Enrolment Rate	Above average by 0.3 standard deviations and growing by 0.2 per year
Youth Unemployment	Below average by 0.7 standard deviations and falling by 0.2 per year
Gross Enrolment Ratio	Average and has little recorded momentum

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.	1.64	0.87	1.04	1

		Urban	Rural
Urban-Rural	Primary Dropout Rate	1.7	2.6

		Top 20%	Bottom 20%
Income	Students with 1 Year ECCE	62%	46%
Income	Primary Dropout Rate	1.2%	3.9%

Shadow Education	A 2012 study of children in primary schools found that 88.2% in Standard 5 children received private supplementary tutoring.

Quality

Funding (% of GDP)	Funding (% of Budget)
1.9%	8.25%

Youth Literacy Rate	Adult Literacy Rate
99%	99%

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)	1.07	Funding (% of GDP)	0.93	Funding (% of GDP)	1.67	Funding (% of GDP)
Teacher-Student Ratio	10	Teacher-Student Ratio	25	Teacher-Student Ratio	17	Teacher-Student Ratio	16
Trained Teachers	67%	Trained Teachers	83%	Trained Teachers	77%	Trained Teachers	72%