Sri Lanka - Institut de statistique de l'Unesco

Out-of-School Children in Sri Lanka: Country Study
Table 2.21: Repetition rate by grade and sex, 2008
Grade Female Male Total
2 0.7 0.9 0.8
3 0.8 1.0 0.9
4 0.9 1.2 1.1
5 0.9 1.4 1.1
Source: UIS Online Database; accessed 28 August 2012. The most recent available data are for 2008.
Table 2.22 shows that although a low percentage of children repeat at each level of education,
boys were much more likely than girls to be repeaters, with a GPI of 0.75 at primary level and
0.56 at lower secondary level.
Table 2.22: Percentage of repeaters in primary and lower secondary education, 2010
School level Female Male Total GPI
Primary 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.75
Lower secondary 0.7 1.3 1.1 0.56
Source: UIS Online Database; accessed 28 August 2012.
Data from the Annual School Census 2010 suggested that repetition rates were higher in later
grades for both boys and girls and that repetition rates for boys were higher than for girls (Table
2.23); this is consistent with data presented in Table 2.22.
Table 2.23: Repetition rates by sex and grade, 2010
Grade Male Female
1 0.6 0.5
2 0.8 0.7
3 0.8 0.6
4 1.0 0.7
5 1.2 0.8
6 1.7 0.9
7 1.4 0.7
8 1.3 0.7
9 1.2 0.7
Source: Annual School Census 2010.
Data from the Annual School Census 2010 showed that a significant proportion of children in
primary school were overage: 6.7 percent of 10-year-olds, 1.6 percent of 11-year-olds and 0.2
percent of 12-year-olds were still in primary school (Table 2.24). Data also revealed that boys
were more likely than girls to be overage in primary education.
Table 2.24: Percentage of overage children enrolled in primary education by sex and age, 2010
Age (years) Male Female Total
10 7.2 6.1 6.7
11 2.0 1.4 1.6
12 0.3 0.2 0.2
Source: Annual School Census 2010.
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