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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 Lesotho was 91.20 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.20 in 2016 and a minimum value of 54.49 in 1999.

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
1970	59.07
1971	55.25
1972	55.88
1973	56.21
1974	63.83
1976	64.23
1977	64.87
1978	58.41
1979	59.36
1980	59.45
1981	59.55
1982	63.39
1983	62.80
1984	63.58
1985	65.65
1986	65.38
1987	66.52
1988	67.29
1989	66.35
1990	65.09
1991	66.28
1992	66.35
1993	64.00
1994	64.92
1995	63.90
1996	64.10
1998	57.27
1999	54.49
2000	74.70
2001	76.53
2002	79.17
2003	81.90
2004	82.20
2005	84.08
2006	86.43
2007	84.86
2008	86.58
2009	87.21
2010	89.23
2011	89.42
2012	89.66
2013	86.90
2014	87.89
2015	89.24
2016	91.20

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 Lesotho was 91.91 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 91.91 in 2016 and a minimum value of 57.68 in 1999.

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

Year	Value
1970	71.69
1972	67.64
1973	67.35
1974	75.91
1976	76.21
1977	77.10
1978	69.30
1979	70.57
1980	69.89
1981	69.23
1982	72.95
1983	71.93
1984	72.57
1985	74.38
1986	73.46
1987	74.39
1988	74.74
1989	73.46
1990	72.07
1991	73.05
1992	72.79
1993	70.07
1994	70.50
1995	68.49
1996	69.13
1998	61.11
1999	57.68
2000	77.50
2001	79.28
2002	81.64
2003	84.35
2004	84.34
2005	86.16
2006	88.33
2007	86.22
2008	88.07
2009	88.91
2010	90.34
2011	90.20
2012	90.59
2013	88.13
2014	88.87
2015	89.93
2016	91.91

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 Lesotho was 90.49 as of 2016. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 90.49 in 2016 and a minimum value of 44.01 in 1972.

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

Year	Value
1970	46.36
1972	44.01
1973	44.96
1974	51.64
1976	52.16
1977	52.55
1978	47.47
1979	48.12
1980	48.99
1981	49.86
1982	53.83
1983	53.68
1984	54.60
1985	56.95
1986	57.28
1987	58.57
1988	59.75
1989	59.18
1990	58.11
1991	59.49
1992	59.90
1993	57.97
1994	59.37
1995	59.31
1996	59.14
1998	53.46
1999	51.32
2000	71.92
2001	73.78
2002	76.71
2003	79.44
2004	80.06
2005	82.00
2006	84.54
2007	83.50
2008	85.08
2009	85.50
2010	88.11
2011	88.64
2012	88.72
2013	85.67
2014	86.90
2015	88.54
2016	90.49

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