• The girl-boy ratio in 1st level primary education has increased in 11 years (1997-2008) from 0.71 to 0.89 (MICS). At this speed, Mozambique will achieve a ratio of 0.97 by 2015, which means that in 1st level primary education there will be almost one girl for each boy.
• The proportion of girls has increased from 45.7% in 2005 to 47.2% in 2009.
• The girl-boy ratio in primary education by province shows that in Inhambane and Gaza there are more girls than boys in primary education already. With the exception of Sofala Province, where the girl-boy ratio in primary education is 0.89, the ratio in all other provinces is from 0.95 to 1.04.
• The primary education completion rate by sex in 2008 indicates that boys perform better than girls. While 74.4% of the girls concluded primary education, this rate for boys is 79.7%.
• The secondary education girl-boy ratio until the end of 2008 was 1 for the urban areas, 0.75 for the rural areas, and 0.97 for the whole country. The girl-boy ratio in secondary education by province varies from 0.55 in Manica (the lowest) to 1.18 in Maputo Province (the highest).
• 59.3% of the female students stated to have repeated a class once, while the number of boys who stated to have repeated a class is 57.4%.

Source: Report on the Millennium Development Goals - Mozambique 2010