Girls have improved their relative chances of completion faster than boys, but still face a larger challenge in some countries

Progress since 1995 has been in favour of girls. There are three groups of countries (Figure 1): those with disparity at the expense of girls throughout the past 25 years (purple lines), those with disparity at the expense of boys (blue lines) and those that switched from disparity at the expense of girls to disparity at the expense of boys (grey lines).