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Total Net Enrolment Rate, Gender Parity Index, And Pupil-Teacher Ratio For Primary And Secondary Education, Annual

Data from Jan 2016 to Dec 2023

Last updated: 14 Jul 2025, 19:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Data Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Update Frequency: Annual

Footnotes: Data are used for SDG 4.5.1 'Parity indices (female/male, rural/urban, bottom/top wealth quintile and others such as disability status, indigenous peoples and conflict-affected, as data become available) for all education indicators on this list that can be disaggregated'. Please refer to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Global Metadata (https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata) for more information on SDG 4.5.1.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M850691

Data explorer

TotalNetEnrolmentRateGenderParityIndexAndPupilTeacherRatioForPrimaryAndSecondaryEducationAnnual.csv (18 rows, 2 KB)

Data Series Text	2023 Numeric	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Primary Education (Total)	99.8	99.1	99.4	99.9	99.9	99.8	100	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Primary Education (Male)	99.8	98.9	99.4	99.8	99.8	99.7	99.9	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Primary Education (Female)	99.8	99.2	99.3	100	100	99.9	100	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Secondary Education (Total)	99.9	99.6	99.1	99	99.7	99.8	100	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Secondary Education (Male)	100	99.7	99	99.2	99.7	100	100	99.9
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Secondary Education (Female)	99.6	99.5	99.2	98.8	99.7	99.7	100	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Lower Secondary Education (Total)	100	100	99.5	99.1	99.7	99.4	99.9	99.9
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Lower Secondary Education (Male)	100	99.9	99.4	99.2	99.6	99.8	100	100
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Lower Secondary Education (Female)	99.2	100	99.7	99	99.8	99.1	99.9	99.9
Total Net Enrolment Rate - Upper Secondary Education (Total)	99.4	98.3	98.6	98.9	99.7	100	99.9	99.9

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Per Cent	-
2023	2023	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2019	2019	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Per Cent	-
2016	2016	Numeric	Per Cent	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9a283a2aa12aa018759cb4bb753a2ca6"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Total Net Enrolment Rate, Gender Parity Index, And Pupil-Teacher Ratio For Primary And Secondary Education, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9a283a2aa12aa018759cb4bb753a2ca6/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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