WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

School enrollment, primary (% gross)

read at 2023 · 3 years old

Total enrolment in primary education regardless of age, as a percentage of the official primary-school-age population.

World median

100.1% gross

Countries reporting

166/ 217

Observations, all years

7.5k

The median is computed across the 166 countries reporting in 2023 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Higher is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2023

1 country between 20.9 and 25.9 % gross1 country between 60.5 and 65.4 % gross1 country between 65.4 and 70.4 % gross2 countries between 70.4 and 75.3 % gross4 countries between 75.3 and 80.3 % gross6 countries between 80.3 and 85.2 % gross10 countries between 85.2 and 90.2 % gross17 countries between 90.2 and 95.1 % gross41 countries between 95.1 and 100.1 % gross41 countries between 100.1 and 105.0 % gross15 countries between 105.0 and 110.0 % gross11 countries between 110.0 and 114.9 % gross7 countries between 114.9 and 119.8 % gross3 countries between 119.8 and 124.8 % gross1 country between 124.8 and 129.7 % gross1 country between 129.7 and 134.7 % gross2 countries between 134.7 and 139.6 % gross1 country between 149.5 and 154.5 % gross1 country between 154.5 and 159.4 % grossMEDIAN20.9159.4
166 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 81.4 % gross

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171970: 39 of 217 countries reported1971: 121 of 217 countries reported1972: 120 of 217 countries reported1973: 115 of 217 countries reported1974: 114 of 217 countries reported1975: 111 of 217 countries reported1976: 118 of 217 countries reported1977: 115 of 217 countries reported1978: 118 of 217 countries reported1979: 113 of 217 countries reported1980: 112 of 217 countries reported1981: 124 of 217 countries reported1982: 119 of 217 countries reported1983: 119 of 217 countries reported1984: 122 of 217 countries reported1985: 117 of 217 countries reported1986: 120 of 217 countries reported1987: 109 of 217 countries reported1988: 107 of 217 countries reported1989: 104 of 217 countries reported1990: 110 of 217 countries reported1991: 120 of 217 countries reported1992: 117 of 217 countries reported1993: 111 of 217 countries reported1994: 117 of 217 countries reported1995: 111 of 217 countries reported1996: 105 of 217 countries reported1997: 100 of 217 countries reported1998: 105 of 217 countries reported1999: 126 of 217 countries reported2000: 137 of 217 countries reported2001: 165 of 217 countries reported2002: 171 of 217 countries reported2003: 164 of 217 countries reported2004: 169 of 217 countries reported2005: 175 of 217 countries reported2006: 165 of 217 countries reported2007: 173 of 217 countries reported2008: 172 of 217 countries reported2009: 170 of 217 countries reported2010: 165 of 217 countries reported2011: 171 of 217 countries reported2012: 171 of 217 countries reported2013: 163 of 217 countries reported2014: 170 of 217 countries reported2015: 171 of 217 countries reported2016: 170 of 217 countries reported2017: 163 of 217 countries reported2018: 162 of 217 countries reported2019: 163 of 217 countries reported2020: 164 of 217 countries reported2021: 164 of 217 countries reported2022: 165 of 217 countries reported2023: 166 of 217 countries reported2024: 134 of 217 countries reported2025: 13 of 217 countries reported19702025
Best year 2005 with 175 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 13. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2023

Sierra Leone159.4
Rwanda151.9
Malawi136.0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)135.1
Madagascar130.6
Nepal126.6
Turks and Caicos Islands124.4
St. Kitts and Nevis121.1

Lowest · 2023

Somalia, Fed. Rep.20.9
Suriname64.2
Niger66.9
Burkina Faso72.2
Mali72.8
Syrian Arab Republic76.8
Lebanon78.2
Bahamas, The78.4

Read with care

  • · GROSS ratio — it counts over-age and repeating pupils, so values above 100% are normal and do not mean every child is in school.
  • · Measures attendance on paper, not attendance in practice, and says nothing about whether pupils are learning.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →