Like inequality in income, inequality in education can also be measured by the
Gini coefficient, which captures unevenness of educational attainment among the
population. Although access to education has been rather uneven, especially in
Cambodia, Indonesia, and Viet Nam where the Gini coefficient was more than
30, the education inequality declined persistently in all countries in the past two
decades, suggesting that access to education is becoming more equitable in the
region (Figure 14.10). The decline in the Gini coefficient was quite significant
in Cambodia and Indonesia, where the inequality in education was very high in
the 1990s.