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1.
As of 2012, 31 million
primary-school pupils worldwide dropped out of school. An additional 32 million
repeated a grade.
2.
In the sub-Saharan, 11.07 million
children leave school before completing their primary education. In South and
West Asia, that number reaches 13.54 million.
3.
While girls are less likely to begin
school, boys are more likely to repeat grades or drop out altogether. Host a
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4.
According to UNESCO, 61 million
primary school-age children were not enrolled in school in 2010. Of these
children, 47% were never expected to enter school, 26% attended school but
left, and the remaining 27% are expected to attend school in the future.
5.
Children living in a rural
environment are twice as likely to be out of school than urban children.
Additionally, children from the wealthiest 20% of the population are 4 times
more likely to be in school than the poorest 20%.
6.
In developing, low-income countries,
every additional year of education can increase a person’s future income by an
average of 10%.
7.
Women who are less educated are
having more children, on average 2.5 children, over the course of their
lifetime when compared to more educated women, on average 1.7 children.
8.
53% of the world’s out-of-school
children are girls and 2/3 of the illiterate people in the world are women.
9.
Education empowers women to make
healthy decisions about their lives. For example, women in Mali with a
secondary level education or higher have an average of 3 children, while those
with no education have an average of 7.
10.
The youth literacy rates in South
America and Europe are among the highest with 90-100% literacy. The African
continent, however, has areas with less than 50% literacy among children ages
18 and under.
