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Primary School Participation

Countries and Territories	Primary school gross enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)			Primary school net enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)			Primary school netattendance ratio (2005-2009*)
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Countries and Territories	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Afghanistan	127	84	106	74	46	61	66	40	53
Albania	102	102	102	91	91	91	92	92	92
Algeria	111	104	108	96	94	95	97	96	97
Andorra	88	85	87	81	79	80	-	-
Angola	141	114	128	55	48	51	58	59	58
Antigua and Barbuda	105	96	100	90	86	88	-	-
Argentina	116	115	116	-	-	99	-	-
Armenia	104	106	105	83	86	84	99	98	99
Australia	106	105	106	96	97	97	-	-
Austria	100	99	100	97	98	97	-	-
Azerbaijan	117	115	116	97	95	96	74	72	73
Bahamas	103	103	103	90	92	91	-	-
Bahrain	106	104	105	98	97	98	86	87	86
Bangladesh	89	94	92	85	86	85	80	83	81
Barbados	-	-		-	-		-	-
Belarus	98	100	99	93	96	94	93	94	93
Belgium	103	103	103	98	99	98	-	-
Belize	122	119	120	98	98	98	95	95	95
Benin	125	108	117	99	86	93	72	62	67
Bhutan	108	110	109	86	88	87	74	67	70
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	108	108	108	93	94	94	97	97	97
Bosnia and Herzegovina	109	110	109	-	-		97	98	98
Botswana	111	109	110	86	88	87	86	88	87
Brazil	132	123	127	95	93	94	95	95	95
Brunei Darussalam	107	107	107	93	93	93	-	-
Bulgaria	101	101	101	96	96	96	-	-
Burkina Faso	83	74	78	67	59	63	49	44	46
Burundi	139	132	136	100	99	99	72	70	71
Cambodia	120	112	116	90	87	89	84	86	85
Cameroon	119	102	111	94	82	88	86	81	84
Canada	99	99	99	99	100	99	-	-
Cape Verde	105	98	101	85	84	84	97	96	97
Central African Republic	104	74	89	77	57	67	64	54	59
Chad	97	68	83	72	50	61	41	31	36
Chile	108	103	106	95	94	94	-	-
China	111	116	113	100	100	100	-	-
Colombia	120	120	120	90	90	90	90	92	91
Comoros	125	114	119	79	67	73	31	31	31
Congo	118	110	114	62	56	59	86	87	86
Cook Islands	99	94	96	87	83	85	-	-
Costa Rica	110	109	110	91	93	92	87	89	88
Côte d'Ivoire	83	66	74	62	50	56	66	57	62
Croatia	99	98	99	91	90	90	-	-
Cuba	104	103	104	99	99	99	-	-
Cyprus	104	103	103	99	98	99	-	-
Czech Republic	103	103	103	88	91	90	-	-
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	-	-		-	-		-	-
Democratic Republic of the Congo	99	82	90	33	32	32	63	60	61
Denmark	99	99	99	95	96	96	-	-
Djibouti	49	43	46	44	39	41	67	66	66
Dominica	79	84	82	69	76	72	-	-
Dominican Republic	108	101	104	80	80	80	87	90	89
Ecuador	119	118	118	96	97	97	-	-
Egypt	102	97	100	95	92	94	96	94	95
El Salvador	117	113	115	93	95	94	-	-
Equatorial Guinea	101	96	99	70	63	66	61	60	61
Eritrea	57	47	52	42	36	39	69	64	67
Estonia	101	99	100	95	94	94	-	-
Ethiopia	103	92	98	81	75	78	45	45	45
Fiji	95	94	94	90	89	89	-	-
Finland	98	97	97	96	96	96	-	-
France	111	109	110	98	99	98	-	-
Gabon	135	134	134	81	80	80	94	94	94
Gambia	84	89	86	67	71	69	60	62	61
Georgia	109	106	107	100	98	99	94	95	95
Germany	105	105	105	98	98	98	-	-
Ghana	106	105	105	76	77	77	73	74	74
Greece	101	101	101	99	100	99	-	-
Grenada	105	100	103	94	93	93	-	-
Guatemala	117	110	114	97	94	95	80	76	78
Guinea	97	83	90	76	66	71	55	48	51
Guinea-Bissau	-	-	120	61	43	52	54	53	54
Guyana	109	108	109	95	95	95	96	96	96
Haiti	-	-		-	-		48	52	50
Holy See	-	-		-	-		-	-
Honduras	116	116	116	96	98	97	77	80	79
Hungary	100	98	99	90	89	90	-	-
Iceland	98	98	98	97	98	98	-	-
India	115	111	113	91	88	90	85	81	83
Indonesia	121	118	119	97	94	96	86	84	85
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	107	151	128	-	-	100	94	91	93
Iraq	106	89	98	93	81	87	91	80	86
Ireland	105	105	105	96	98	97	-	-
Israel	110	111	111	97	98	97	-	-
Italy	104	103	104	99	98	99	-	-
Jamaica	95	92	93	82	79	80	97	98	97
Japan	102	102	102	-	-	100	-	-
Jordan	97	97	97	89	90	89	99	99	99
Kazakhstan	108	109	108	88	90	89	99	98	98
Kenya	113	110	112	81	82	82	72	75	74
Kiribati	107	109	108	-	-	97	-	-
Kuwait	96	95	95	89	87	88	-	-
Kyrgyzstan	95	94	95	84	83	84	91	93	92
Lao People's Democratic Republic	117	106	112	84	81	82	81	77	79
Latvia	100	96	98	98	96	97	-	-
Lebanon	104	102	103	91	89	90	97	97	97
Lesotho	108	107	108	71	74	73	82	88	85
Liberia	96	86	91	85	66	75	41	39	40
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	113	108	110	-	-		-	-
Liechtenstein	107	107	107	87	92	90	-	-
Lithuania	97	95	96	93	91	92	-	-
Luxembourg	100	101	100	95	97	96	-	-
Madagascar	154	149	152	98	99	98	74	77	76
Malawi	119	122	120	88	93	91	86	87	86
Malaysia	97	96	97	96	96	96	-	-
Maldives	115	109	112	97	95	96	-	-
Mali	103	86	95	79	66	73	46	40	44
Malta	99	99	99	91	92	91	-	-
Marshall Islands	94	92	93	67	66	66	-	-
Mauritania	101	108	104	74	79	76	56	59	57
Mauritius	100	100	100	93	95	94	-	-
Mexico	115	113	114	98	98	98	97	97	97
Micronesia (Federated States of)	110	111	110	-	-	92	-	-
Monaco	131	125	128	-	-		-	-
Mongolia	102	101	102	89	88	89	96	98	97
Montenegro	-	-		-	-		98	97	97
Morocco	112	102	107	92	87	89	91	88	89
Mozambique	121	107	114	82	77	80	82	80	81
Myanmar	117	117	117	-	-		83	84	84
Namibia	113	112	112	87	91	89	91	91	91
Nauru	80	84	82	72	73	72	-	-
Nepal	123	106	115	78	64	71	86	82	84
Netherlands	108	106	107	99	98	99	-	-
New Zealand	101	101	101	99	100	99	-	-
Nicaragua	118	116	117	92	92	92	77	84	80
Niger	69	55	62	60	48	54	44	31	38
Nigeria	99	87	93	64	58	61	65	60	63
Niue	107	102	105	99	98	99	-	-
Norway	99	99	99	99	99	99	-	-
Occupied Palestinian Territory	80	79	80	75	75	75	91	92	92
Oman	74	75	75	67	69	68	-	-
Pakistan	93	77	85	72	60	66	76	67	71
Palau	98	100	99	98	94	96	-	-
Panama	113	109	111	99	98	98	-	-
Papua New Guinea	59	50	55	-	-		-	-
Paraguay	107	104	105	90	90	90	87	89	88
Peru	109	109	109	94	95	94	94	94	94
Philippines	111	109	110	91	93	92	88	89	88
Poland	97	97	97	95	96	96	-	-
Portugal	118	112	115	99	98	99	-	-
Qatar	109	108	109	95	94	94	-	-
Republic of Korea	106	104	105	100	98	99	-	-
Republic of Moldova	95	93	94	88	87	88	84	85	84
Romania	100	99	100	91	90	90	-	-
Russian Federation	97	97	97	-	-		-	-
Rwanda	150	152	151	95	97	96	84	87	86
Saint Kitts and Nevis	96	102	99	91	96	93	-	-
Saint Lucia	99	97	98	92	91	91	-	-
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	111	103	107	97	92	95	-	-
Samoa	101	99	100	93	93	93	-	-
San Marino	-	-		-	-		-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	133	134	133	95	97	96	94	95	94
Saudi Arabia	100	96	98	85	84	85	-	-
Senegal	83	84	84	72	74	73	58	59	58
Serbia	98	98	98	95	95	95	99	98	98
Seychelles	131	130	131	99	100	99	-	-
Sierra Leone	168	148	158	-	-		69	69	69
Singapore	-	-		-	-		-	-
Slovakia	103	102	103	-	-		-	-
Slovenia	98	97	97	97	97	97	-	-
Solomon Islands	109	106	107	67	67	67	63	69	65
Somalia	42	23	33	-	-		25	21	23
South Africa	106	103	105	87	88	87	80	83	81
Spain	107	106	107	100	100	100	-	-
Sri Lanka	101	102	101	99	100	99	-	-
Sudan	78	70	74	43	36	39	56	52	54
Suriname	116	111	114	91	90	90	95	94	95
Swaziland	112	104	108	82	84	83	83	86	84
Sweden	95	95	95	95	94	95	-	-
Switzerland	103	103	103	94	94	94	-	-
Syrian Arab Republic	127	122	124	97	92	95	97	96	97
Tajikistan	104	100	102	99	95	97	99	96	97
Thailand	92	90	91	91	89	90	98	98	98
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	93	93	93	86	87	87	97	93	95
Timor-Leste	110	103	107	77	74	76	76	74	75
Togo	119	111	115	98	89	94	82	76	79
Tonga	113	110	112	-	-	99	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	105	102	103	92	91	92	98	98	98
Tunisia	108	106	107	97	98	98	95	93	94
Turkey	101	98	99	96	94	95	91	87	89
Turkmenistan	-	-		-	-		99	99	99
Tuvalu	106	105	106	-	-	100	-	-
Uganda	120	121	120	96	98	97	83	82	82
Ukraine	98	99	98	89	89	89	96	98	97
United Arab Emirates	108	108	108	92	91	92	-	-
United Kingdom	106	106	106	99	100	100	-	-
United Republic of Tanzania	111	109	110	100	99	99	71	75	73
United States	98	99	99	91	93	92	-	-
Uruguay	116	113	114	97	98	98	-	-
Uzbekistan	94	92	93	89	87	88	100	100	100
Vanuatu	111	106	109	98	96	97	80	82	81
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	104	102	103	90	90	90	91	93	92
Viet Nam	107	101	104	96	91	94	94	94	94
Yemen	94	76	85	79	66	73	75	64	70
Zambia	120	118	119	95	96	95	80	80	80
Zimbabwe	104	103	104	89	91	90	90	92	91
- Data not available. * Data refer to the most recent year available during the period specified in the column heading. Excludes China. § Includes territories within each country category or regional group. Source:** The State of the World's Children 2011, UNICEF, Table 5.

Regions	Primary school enrolment rate (2003-2008*) Gross		Primary school enrolment rate (2003-2008*) Net		Primary school attendance rate (2003-2008*) Net
Regions	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Africa#	105	96	83	79	69	67
Sub-Saharan Africa#	105	95	81	77	65	63
Eastern and Southern Africa	113	107	88	87	68	69
West and Central Africa	99	86	71	64	64	59
Middle East and North Africa	101	99	91	86	85	81
Asia#	111	108	92	89	84	81
South Asia	110	104	88	83	83	80
East Asia and Pacific	112	113	98	97	89	88
Latin America and Caribbean	118	114	95	94	92	93
CEE/CIS	100	98	93	92	-	-
Industrialized countries§	102	102	95	95	-	-
Developing countries§	109	105	90	87	80	77
Least developed countries§	104	96	85	81	67	66
World	108	105	91	88	80	77