School completion rate in Nigeria 2020, by educational level and gender
In 2020, some 77 percent of children in Nigeria completed the last grade of elementary school, with 78.2 percent of males and 77.1 percent of females. In the following educational levels, the disparity between male students and female students became larger, reaching a gap of four and 13.8 percentage points in the completion rates of middle school and high school, respectively.