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January 2008

Table 1: Primary school enrolment and attendance

Countries and Regions	Primary school enrolment/ attendance (%, 2000-2006*)	Primary school enrolment ratio (2000-2006*)				Primary school attendance ratio (1996-2006*)
	Net	Gross		Net		Net
	Total	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Afghanistan	53 s	108	64	-	-	66	40
Albania	94	106	105	94	94	92	92
Algeria	97	116	107	98	95	97	96
Andorra	80	89	85	82	79	-	-
Angola	58 s	69 x	59 x	-	-	58	59
Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Argentina	99	113	112	99	98	-	-
Armenia	99 s	92	96	77	81	99	98
Australia	97	104	104	96	97	-	-
Austria	97	106	106	96	98	-	-
Azerbaijan	85	97	96	85	84	91	91
Bahamas	91	101	101	90	92	-	-
Bahrain	97	105	104	97	97	86	87
Bangladesh	81 s	107	111	93	96	79	84
Barbados	98	108	108	98	98	-	-
Belarus	89	103	100	91	88	93	94
Belgium	99	104	104	99	99	-	-
Belize	95	130	125	93	96	-	-
Benin	54 s	107	85	86	70	60	47
Bhutan	70 s	-	-	80	79	74	67
Bolivia	78 s	113	113	94	96	78	77
Bosnia and Herzegovina	91 s	-	-	-	-	92	89
Botswana	85	107	105	85	84	83	86
Brazil	95	146	135	95	95	95	95
Brunei Darussalam	93	108	107	93	94	-	-
Bulgaria	93	103	102	94	93	-	-
Burkina Faso	45	64	51	50	40	49	44
Burundi	71 s	91	78	63	58	72	70
Cambodia	75 s	139	129	93	90	73	76
Cameroon	84 s	126	107	-	-	86	81
Canada	100	100	99	99	100	-	-
Cape Verde	90	111	105	91	89	97	96
Central African Republic	59 s	67	44	44	37	64	54
Chad	36 s	92	62	72	50	41	31
Chile	90	106	101	91	89	-	-
China	99	114	112	99	99	-	-
Colombia	87	113	111	87	87	90	92
Comoros	72	91	80	80	65	31	31
Congo	86 s	91	84	40	48	86	87
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	52 s	69	54	-	-	55	49
Cook Islands	77	83	81	78	77	-	-
Costa Rica	92	110	109	91	93	87	89
Côte d'Ivoire	62 s	80	63	62	50	66	57
Croatia	87	95	94	88	87	-	-
Cuba	97	104	99	98	96	-	-
Cyprus	99	101	101	99	99	-	-
Czech Republic	92	102	100	91	93	-	-
Denmark	95	98	99	95	96	-	-
Djibouti	79 s	44	36	37	30	80	78
Dominica	84	93	92	83	85	-	-
Dominican Republic	88	116	110	87	88	84	88
Ecuador	98	117	117	97	98	-	-
Egypt	94	104	97	96	91	96	94
El Salvador	93	115	111	93	93	-	-
Equatorial Guinea	81	117	111	85	77	61	60
Eritrea	67 s	71	57	51	43	69	64
Estonia	95	102	99	95	95	-	-
Ethiopia	45 s	107	94	71	66	45	45
Fiji	96	107	105	97	96	-	-
Finland	98	100	99	98	98	-	-
France	99	112	110	99	99	-	-
Gabon	94 s	130	129	77	77	94	94
Gambia	61 s	79	84	78	77	60	62
Georgia	93	93	94	93	93	99 y	100 y
Germany	96	101	101	96	96	-	-
Ghana	75 s	94	93	69	70	75	75
Greece	99	101	101	99	99	-	-
Grenada	84	94	91	84	83	-	-
Guatemala	94	118	109	96	92	80	76
Guinea	51 s	88	74	70	61	55	48
Guinea-Bissau	54 s	84	56	53	38	54	53
Guyana	96 s	133	131	-	-	96	96
Haiti	50 s	-	-	-	-	48	51
Holy See	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Honduras	79 s	113	113	90	92	77	80
Hungary	89	99	97	90	88	-	-
Iceland	99	101	98	100	97	-	-
India	84 s	123	116	92	86	84	85
Indonesia	96	119	115	97	94	94	95
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	95	100	122	91	100	94	91
Iraq	88	108	89	94	81	91	80
Ireland	96	108	106	96	96	-	-
Israel	97	109	110	97	98	-	-
Italy	99	103	102	99	98	-	-
Jamaica	97 s	95	94	90	90	97	98
Japan	100	100	100	100	100	-	-
Jordan	99 s	96	96	88	90	99	99
Kazakhstan	98 s	110	108	92	90	99	98
Kenya	79	114	110	78	79	79	79
Kiribati	97	111	113	96	98	-	-
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Korea, Republic of	100	105	104	100	99	-	-
Kuwait	87	99	97	87	86	-	-
Kyrgyzstan	92 s	98	97	87	86	91	93
Lao People's Democratic Republic	84	123	108	86	81	81	77
Latvia	88	94	90	86	89	-	-
Lebanon	92	108	105	93	92	97	97
Lesotho	87	132	132	84	89	82	88
Liberia	66	115	83	74	58	-	-
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	-	106	105	-	-	-	-
Liechtenstein	88	106	107	87	89	-	-
Lithuania	89	95	95	89	89	-	-
Luxembourg	95	100	100	95	95	-	-
Madagascar	76 s	141	136	93	92	74	77
Malawi	87 s	121	124	92	97	86	88
Malaysia	95	96	96	96	95	-	-
Maldives	79	95	93	79	79	-	-
Mali	51	74	59	56	45	45	33
Malta	86	101	95	88	84	-	-
Marshall Islands	90	105	101	90	89	-	-
Mauritania	72	93	94	72	72	46	42
Mauritius	95	102	102	94	96	-	-
Mexico	98	110	108	98	98	97	97
Micronesia (Federated States of)	92	116	113	-	-	-	-
Moldova, Republic of	86	93	92	86	86	84	85
Monaco	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mongolia	97 s	92	94	83	85	96	98
Montenegro	97 s	98	98	-	-	98	97
Morocco	86	111	99	89	83	91	87
Mozambique	60 s	111	94	81	74	63	57
Myanmar	84 s	99	101	89	91	83	84
Namibia	72	99	100	69	74	78	78
Nauru	60	84	83	-	-	-	-
Nepal	87	129	123	90	83	86	82
Netherlands	99	108	106	99	98	-	-
New Zealand	99	102	102	99	99	-	-
Nicaragua	87	113	110	88	86	77	84
Niger	40	54	39	46	33	36	25
Nigeria	68	111	95	72	64	66	58
Niue	90	78	97	-	-	-	-
Norway	98	98	98	98	98	-	-
Occupied Palestinian Territory	80	89	88	80	80	91	92
Oman	73	81	82	73	74	-	-
Pakistan	68	99	75	77	59	62	51
Palau	96	108	101	98	95	-	-
Panama	99	113	109	99	98	-	-
Papua New Guinea	-	80	70	-	-	-	-
Paraguay	88	106	103	87	88	95	96
Peru	97	113	112	96	97	94	94
Philippines	94	113	112	93	95	88	89
Poland	96	98	98	96	97	-	-
Portugal	98	117	112	98	98	-	-
Qatar	96	107	106	96	96	-	-
Romania	93	108	106	93	92	-	-
Russian Federation	92	129	129	92	93	-	-
Rwanda	86 s	119	121	72	75	84	87
Saint Kitts and Nevis	93	97	102	91	96	-	-
Saint Lucia	97	111	107	98	96	-	-
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	90	117	105	92	88	-	-
Samoa	90	100	100	90	91	-	-
San Marino	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	97	135	132	97	96	94	95
Saudi Arabia	78	91	91	77	79	-	-
Senegal	58 s	80	77	70	67	58	59
Serbia	96	98	98	-	-	98	98
Seychelles	99	115	116	99	100	-	-
Sierra Leone	69 s	171	139	-	-	69	69
Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slovakia	92	99	98	91	92	-	-
Slovenia	98	102	101	99	98	-	-
Solomon Islands	63	99	94	65	62	-	-
Somalia	22 s	-	-	-	-	24	20
South Africa	87	106	102	87	87	80	83
Spain	99	108	105	100	99	-	-
Sri Lanka	97	102	101	99	98	-	-
Sudan	58 s	65	56	47	39	60	57
Suriname	94	120	120	93	96	94	93
Swaziland	80	111	104	80	81	73	72
Sweden	96	97	97	96	96	-	-
Switzerland	93	102	101	93	93	-	-
Syrian Arab Republic	95	127	121	97	92	97	96
Tajikistan	89 s	103	99	99	96	89	88
Tanzania, United Republic of	73 s	112	109	99	97	71	75
Thailand	98 s	98	94	90	86	98	98
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	92	98	98	92	92	97	93
Timor-Leste	75 s	157	145	-	-	76 y	74 y
Togo	78	109	92	84	72	82	76
Tonga	95	118	112	97	93	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	98 s	102	99	90	90	98	98
Tunisia	97	111	108	97	97	95	93
Turkey	89	96	91	92	87	91	87
Turkmenistan	99 s	-	-	-	-	99	99
Tuvalu	100	95	102	-	-	-	-
Uganda	82 s	119	119	-	-	82	81
Ukraine	97 s	107	107	83	83	96	98
United Arab Emirates	71	85	82	71	70	-	-
United Kingdom	99	107	107	99	99	-	-
United States	92	100	99	92	93	-	-
Uruguay	93	110	108	92	93	-	-
Uzbekistan	100 s	100	99	-	-	100	100
Vanuatu	94	120	116	95	93	-	-
Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep. of)	91	106	104	91	92	91	93
Viet Nam	94 s	98	91	97	92	94	94
Yemen	75	102	75	87	63	68	41
Zambia	57 s	114	108	89	89	55	58
Zimbabwe	82	97	95	81	82	85	87
SUMMARY INDICATORS
Sub-Saharan Africa	66	102	91	75	70	64	60
Eastern and Southern Africa	70	110	104	83	81	66	67
West and Central Africa	62	95	79	68	59	62	55
Middle East and North Africa	85	100	94	86	81	89	86
South Asia	82	118	109	90	83	81	79
East Asia and Pacific	97	112	110	98	97	91	92
Latin America and Caribbean	93	120	115	95	94	90	91
CEE/CIS	92	105	102	91	89	93	91
Industrialized countries §	96	102	101	95	96	-	-
Developing countries §	84	111	105	90	86	80	78
Least developed countries §	65	100	91	80	75	65	63
World	86	110	104	91	87	80	78
- Data not available. s National household survey data. x Data refer to years or periods other than those specified in the column heading, differ from the standard definition, or refer to only part of a country. y Data differ from the standard definition or refer to only part of a country, but are included in the calculation of regional and global averages. * Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified in the column heading. § Also includes territories within each country category or regional group. Source: The State of the World's Children 2008, UNICEF, Tables 1 and 5.