Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER)/Gross Enrollment Index (GEI)

Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER)/Gross Enrollment Index (GEI)

    It is a statistical measure used in the education sector and by the UN in its Education Index to determine the number of students enrolled in school at several different grade levels (like elementary, middle school and high school), and use it to show the ratio of the number of students who live in that country to those who qualify for the particular grade level.

}  An elementary formula used by most countries to calculate the Gross Enrollment Ratio is that, the country divides the number of individuals who are actually enrolled in schools by the number of children who are of the corresponding school enrollment age.

Purpose of GER

}  Gross Enrolment Ratio is widely used to show the general level of participation in a given level of education.

}   It indicates the capacity of the education system to enrol students of a particular age-group.

}  It is used as a substitute indicator to net enrolment ratio (NER) when data on enrolment by single years of age are not available.

}  Furthermore, it can also be a complementary indicator to NER by indicating the extent of over-aged and under-aged enrolment.

Calculation method:

                Divide the number of pupils enrolled in a given level of education regardless of age by the population of the age-group which officially corresponds to the given level of education, and multiply the result by 100.