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Secondary School Participation

Countries and Territories	Secondary school gross enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)			Secondary school net enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)			Secondary school net attendance ratio (2005-2009*)
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Countries and Territories	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Afghanistan	41	15	28.6	38	15	26.8	18	6	11.8
Albania	79	76	77.7	75	73	73.8	79	77	78.3
Algeria	80	86	83.2	65	68	66.3	57	65	60.9
Andorra	78	87	82.2	69	75	71.4	-	-	-
Angola	19	16	17.3	-	-	-	22	20	21
Antigua and Barbuda	119	110	114.3	-	-	-	-	-	-
Argentina	80	90	84.9	75	84	79.2	-	-	-
Armenia	86	90	88.1	83	88	85.7	93	95	93.5
Australia	153	146	149.3	87	89	88	-	-	-
Austria	102	98	100	-	-	-	-	-	-
Azerbaijan	107	104	105.6	99	97	98.3	82	80	81
Bahamas	92	94	93.3	83	87	85.1	-	-	-
Bahrain	95	99	96.8	87	92	89.4	77	85	80.6
Bangladesh	43	45	44.1	40	43	41.5	46	53	49.2
Barbados	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Belarus	94	96	95.3	-	-	86.8	95	97	95.9
Belgium	110	107	108.3	89	85	86.9	-	-	-
Belize	72	78	75	61	66	63.4	58	60	58.7
Benin	46	26	36.3	26	13	19.6	40	27	33.9
Bhutan	62	61	61.7	46	49	47.5	-	-	-
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	83	81	81.8	70	70	69.9	78	75	76.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	89	91	90.2	-	-	-	89	89	89.3
Botswana	78	82	80.2	62	67	64.4	36	44	39.5
Brazil	96	106	100.8	78	85	81.5	74	80	76.7
Brunei Darussalam	96	98	96.7	87	90	88.2	-	-	-
Bulgaria	90	87	88.6	85	82	83.4	-	-	-
Burkina Faso	23	17	19.8	18	13	15.4	17	15	15.8
Burundi	21	15	17.9	-	-	-	8	6	7.2
Cambodia	44	36	40.4	36	32	34.1	29	26	27.7
Cameroon	41	33	37.3	-	-	-	45	42	43.3
Canada	102	100	101.3	95	94	94.6	-	-	-
Cape Verde	65	71	67.7	54	60	56.7	-	-	-
Central African Republic	18	10	13.6	13	8	10.4	16	10	12.9
Chad	26	12	19	16	5	10.5	13	7	9.8
Chile	89	92	90.6	84	87	85.3	-	-	-
China	74	78	76.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Colombia	86	95	90.6	68	75	71.2	64	72	67.9
Comoros	52	39	45.8	15	15	15.2	10	11	10.6
Congo	46	40	43.1	-	-	-	39	40	39.3
Cook Islands	58	63	60.3	57	61	59	-	-	-
Costa Rica	87	92	89.2	-	-	-	59	65	62.2
Côte d'Ivoire	34	19	26.3	27	15	21.2	32	22	27.4
Croatia	92	95	93.6	87	89	88.3	-	-	-
Cuba	90	89	89.6	82	83	82.8	-	-	-
Cyprus	98	99	98.3	95	97	95.8	-	-	-
Czech Republic	94	96	94.9	-	-	-	-	-	-
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Democratic Republic of the Congo	45	25	34.8	-	-	-	30	24	27
Denmark	117	121	119.2	88	91	89.6	-	-	-
Djibouti	35	24	29.8	25	18	21.5	45	37	40.9
Dominica	109	101	104.8	62	74	68.1	-	-	-
Dominican Republic	69	81	74.9	52	63	57.7	56	68	61.6
Ecuador	75	76	75.7	61	62	61.5	-	-	-
Egypt	82	77	79.3	73	69	71.2	72	67	69.4
El Salvador	63	64	63.6	54	56	55	-	-	-
Equatorial Guinea	33	19	26.2	-	-	21.6	23	22	22.1
Eritrea	36	25	30.5	30	22	26	23	21	21.9
Estonia	98	101	99.3	88	91	89.5	-	-	-
Ethiopia	39	28	33.4	31	20	25.3	30	23	26.8
Fiji	78	84	80.9	76	83	79.1	-	-	-
Finland	108	113	110.3	96	97	96.5	-	-	-
France	113	113	113.2	98	99	98.5	-	-	-
Gabon	-	-	53.1	-	-	-	34	36	35.3
Gambia	52	49	50.8	42	41	41.8	39	34	36.5
Georgia	92	88	90	82	79	80.8	89	88	88.3
Germany	103	100	101.7	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ghana	58	52	55.2	49	45	47.4	42	42	42.1
Greece	104	99	101.8	91	91	91	-	-	-
Grenada	112	103	107.7	93	85	88.6	-	-	-
Guatemala	58	55	56.6	41	39	39.9	23	24	23.2
Guinea	45	26	35.8	34	21	27.7	27	17	22
Guinea-Bissau	-	-	35.9	12	7	9.7	8	7	7.7
Guyana	102	102	102.1	-	-	-	66	73	69.4
Haiti	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	21	19.6
Holy See	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Honduras	57	72	64.5	-	-	-	29	36	32.4
Hungary	98	97	97.4	91	91	90.9	-	-	-
Iceland	108	112	110.1	89	91	90.2	-	-	-
India	61	52	57	-	-	-	59	49	53.7
Indonesia	75	74	74.4	69	68	68.4	57	59	58.1
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	80	79	79.7	75	75	75.1	-	-	-
Iraq	56	37	46.8	46	33	39.6	46	34	40.1
Ireland	111	119	115	86	90	88.4	-	-	-
Israel	89	91	90	85	88	86.5	-	-	-
Italy	100	99	99.9	92	93	92.4	-	-	-
Jamaica	89	93	91.2	75	79	77.2	88	92	89.8
Japan	101	101	100.9	98	98	98.3	-	-	-
Jordan	87	90	88.2	80	84	81.9	85	89	86.9
Kazakhstan	101	98	99.5	88	89	88.5	97	97	96.7
Kenya	61	56	58.3	50	48	49.1	40	42	40.6
Kiribati	79	95	86.6	65	72	68.3	-	-	-
Kuwait	88	91	89.8	80	80	79.9	-	-	-
Kyrgyzstan	85	86	85.1	80	81	80.5	90	92	90.9
Lao People's Democratic Republic	48	39	43.9	39	33	36	39	32	35.5
Latvia	97	99	98	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lebanon	78	87	82.1	71	79	75.1	61	68	64.4
Lesotho	34	45	39.9	20	31	25.2	16	27	20.8
Liberia	36	27	31.6	25	14	19.5	21	18	19.6
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	86	101	93.5	-	-	-	-	-	-
Liechtenstein	117	100	108.4	85	81	82.8	-	-	-
Lithuania	99	99	99	91	92	91.6	-	-	-
Luxembourg	95	98	96	82	85	83.7	-	-	-
Madagascar	31	29	30.1	23	24	23.8	17	21	18.5
Malawi	32	27	29.4	26	24	25	13	13	12.8
Malaysia	66	71	68.2	66	70	67.9	-	-	-
Maldives	81	86	83.7	68	71	69.4	-	-	-
Mali	46	30	38.3	35	22	28.6	23	17	19.7
Malta	97	99	98.1	79	85	82	-	-	-
Marshall Islands	66	67	66.4	43	47	44.9	-	-	-
Mauritania	26	23	24.5	17	15	16.3	21	17	18.6
Mauritius	86	88	87.2	79	81	80.1	-	-	-
Mexico	87	93	89.9	71	74	72.4	-	-	-
Micronesia (Federated States of)	-	-	90.5	-	-	24.9	-	-	-
Monaco	153	154	153.4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mongolia	92	99	95.1	79	85	82	85	91	87.9
Montenegro	-	-	-	-	-	-	90	92	90.9
Morocco	60	51	55.8	37	32	34.5	39	36	37.4
Mozambique	24	18	20.6	6	6	6.2	21	20	20.4
Myanmar	-	-	52.7	49	50	49.2	51	48	49.2
Namibia	61	71	65.8	49	60	54.4	40	53	46.5
Nauru	47	58	51.9	-	-	58	-	-	-
Nepal	46	41	43.5	-	-	-	46	38	41.7
Netherlands	122	120	120.7	88	89	88.3	-	-	-
New Zealand	115	122	118.5	90	92	90.8	-	-	-
Nicaragua	64	72	67.9	42	48	45.2	35	47	40.9
Niger	14	9	11.6	11	7	8.9	13	9	10.8
Nigeria	34	27	30.5	29	22	25.8	45	43	44.1
Niue	96	102	98.6	91	96	93.4	-	-	-
Norway	113	110	111.6	96	96	95.8	-	-	-
Occupied Palestinian Territory	87	93	89.7	85	90	87.3	-	-	-
Oman	90	87	88.1	79	78	78.2	-	-	-
Pakistan	37	28	32.9	37	28	32.5	39	33	35.9
Palau	98	96	96.9	-	-	-	-	-	-
Panama	68	74	71.2	63	69	65.6	-	-	-
Papua New Guinea	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Paraguay	65	67	65.7	57	60	58.3	81	80	80
Peru	89	89	89.1	75	75	75.4	70	70	70.2
Philippines	79	86	82.5	55	66	60.7	55	70	62.6
Poland	100	99	99.8	93	95	93.8	-	-	-
Portugal	98	105	101.3	84	92	87.9	-	-	-
Qatar	79	115	93.2	67	98	79.2	-	-	-
Republic of Korea	99	95	97.2	97	94	95.5	-	-	-
Republic of Moldova	86	89	87.7	82	85	83.5	82	85	83.7
Romania	92	91	91.6	74	72	72.8	-	-	-
Russian Federation	86	84	84.8	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rwanda	23	21	21.9	-	-	10	5	5	4.8
Saint Kitts and Nevis	95	93	93.7	87	85	86.1	-	-	-
Saint Lucia	91	95	93.2	77	82	79.6	-	-	-
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	107	111	109.1	85	95	90.3	-	-	-
Samoa	72	81	76.1	66	75	70.6	-	-	-
San Marino	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sao Tome and Principe	49	54	51.3	36	40	38.1	39	41	40
Saudi Arabia	102	87	94.6	70	76	73	-	-	-
Senegal	34	27	30.6	28	22	25.1	20	16	18
Serbia	87	90	88.5	87	89	87.7	81	87	83.8
Seychelles	101	120	109.8	-	-	92.4	-	-	-
Sierra Leone	42	28	34.6	30	20	24.9	21	17	19.3
Singapore	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slovakia	92	93	92.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slovenia	97	97	96.8	91	92	91.2	-	-	-
Solomon Islands	38	32	34.8	32	29	30.2	29	30	29.1
Somalia	11	5	7.7	-	-	-	9	5	6.8
South Africa	93	97	95.1	70	74	71.9	41	48	44.4
Spain	117	123	119.9	93	97	95	-	-	-
Sri Lanka	86	88	87	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sudan	40	36	38	-	-	-	17	22	18.9
Suriname	66	85	75.4	55	74	64.6	56	67	61.4
Swaziland	56	50	53.3	31	26	28.6	31	41	35.6
Sweden	104	103	103.5	99	99	99.2	-	-	-
Switzerland	98	94	96.1	87	83	84.7	-	-	-
Syrian Arab Republic	75	73	74	68	67	67.7	64	65	64.4
Tajikistan	90	78	84.4	88	77	82.5	89	74	82.3
Thailand	73	79	75.6	68	77	72.2	77	84	80.3
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	85	82	83.7	82	81	81.6	79	78	78.4
Timor-Leste	55	55	54.7	30	33	31.4	-	-	-
Togo	54	28	41.3	30	15	22.5	45	32	38.8
Tonga	101	105	102.7	60	74	66.2	-	-	-
Trinidad and Tobago	86	92	88.8	71	76	73.9	84	90	87.2
Tunisia	88	96	91.8	67	76	71.3	-	-	-
Turkey	87	77	82	77	70	73.9	52	43	47.4
Turkmenistan	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	84	84.1
Tuvalu	87	81	84.4	-	-	-	-	-	-
Uganda	27	23	25.3	22	21	21.6	16	15	15.8
Ukraine	95	94	94.4	84	85	85	90	93	91.6
United Arab Emirates	93	95	93.8	83	85	83.8	-	-	-
United Kingdom	98	100	99	92	95	93.2	-	-	-
United Republic of Tanzania	7	5	6.1	5	5	4.8	8	8	7.8
United States	94	94	94.1	88	89	88.3	-	-	-
Uruguay	93	91	92	64	71	67.7	-	-	-
Uzbekistan	102	101	101.4	92	90	91.3	91	90	90.4
Vanuatu	43	37	40.1	41	35	38.1	38	36	36.7
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	77	85	81.1	66	74	69.5	30	43	36.1
Viet Nam	70	64	66.9	-	-	62.3	77	78	77.5
Yemen	61	30	45.7	49	26	37.4	48	27	37.9
Zambia	50	41	45.6	47	39	43.1	38	35	36.8
Zimbabwe	43	39	41	39	37	38	46	43	44.7
- Data not available. x Data refer to years or periods other than those specified in the column heading differ from the standard * 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	Secondary school gross enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)		Secondary school net enrolment ratio (2005-2009*)		Secondary school net attendance ratio (2005-2009*)
Regions	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Africa#	44	36	33	29	35	32
Sub-Saharan Africa#	40	32	32	28	30	27
Eastern and Southern Africa	44	39	35	33	24	22
West and Central Africa	38	26	29	22	36	31
Middle East and North Africa	72	66	66	62	54	51
Asia#	64	60	-	-	56	50
South Asia	56	48	-	-	55	47
East Asia and Pacific	74	77	65	67	63	65
Latin America and Caribbean	87	94	72	77	68	74
CEE/CIS	91	88	82	81	-	-
Industrialized countries§	102	101	91	92	-	-
Developing countries§	64	60	54	53	52	48
Least developed countries§	39	31	33	29	30	28
World	69	65	61	60	53	48