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Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary (% of primary school age children)

The value for Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary (% of primary school age children) in Saudi Arabia was 95.11 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 99.85 in 2012 and a minimum value of 43.68 in 1979.

Definition: Adjusted net enrollment is the number of pupils of the school-age group for primary education, enrolled either in primary or secondary education, expressed as a percentage of the total population in that age group.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

Year	Value
1979	43.68
2010	97.14
2011	97.13
2012	99.85
2013	97.83
2015	97.38
2016	97.55
2017	95.78
2018	95.11

Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, female (% of primary school age children)

The value for Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, female (% of primary school age children) in Saudi Arabia was 94.97 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.09 in 2011 and a minimum value of 31.43 in 1979.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

Year	Value
1979	31.43
2010	96.95
2011	97.09
2016	96.57
2017	95.76
2018	94.97

Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, male (% of primary school age children)

The value for Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, male (% of primary school age children) in Saudi Arabia was 95.24 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 39 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.49 in 2016 and a minimum value of 55.68 in 1979.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

Year	Value
1979	55.68
2010	97.32
2011	97.17
2016	98.49
2017	95.80
2018	95.24

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Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Participation