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Djibouti

Middle East & North Africa · Lower middle income· 1.17M inhabitants

Last updated: September 1, 2025

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Futures readiness profile

Key insights: Djibouti

Djibouti lags behind global peers in Infrastructure (41, 24th percentile) and Governance (28, 19th percentile). The remaining dimensions are closer to the global average, but none demonstrate global leadership or advanced futures readiness. Broad-based, high-impact interventions are needed to drive overall education futures readiness and resilience.

Composite GEFRI Score

44.32
37th percentile
Higher scores indicate greater education futures readiness

Component scores

School Access and Gender Parity57.81
Near the global average · 46th %-tile
Human Capital47.59
Near the global average · 37th %-tile
Assesses the educational attainment and capacity of a country’s population, focusing on access and completion at secondary and tertiary levels as well as literacy.
Innovation47.24
Near the global average · 67th %-tile
Reflects a country’s capacity to foster, produce, and apply new knowledge and technology in society and education.
Governance27.86
Below global avg. · 19th %-tile
Captures the effectiveness and quality of policies, regulations, and governance that shape the educational environment.
Infrastructure41.10
Below global avg. · 24th %-tile
Measures the availability and quality of basic digital and electrical infrastructure that supports education.

Regional peers: Middle East & North Africa

Global rankRegional rankCountryScore
201Israel74.63
312United Arab Emirates71.00
423Saudi Arabia64.48
494Malta62.48
525Qatar61.54
546Bahrain61.08
587Kuwait59.84
668Oman57.91
699Jordan56.89
8010Algeria54.22
8611Tunisia53.33
8712West Bank and Gaza52.98
9113Iran, Islamic Rep.52.16
9214Morocco51.61
10115Egypt, Arab Rep.49.23
10316Libya48.86
10417Iraq48.09
11218Djibouti44.32
12519Lebanon37.14
14420Syrian Arab Republic28.16
15221Yemen, Rep.25.64