Goal 2: Facts
- Some 103 million children of primary-school age worldwide are not enrolled in school.
- Girls make up more than half of all children no in primary school, in the developing world, one girl in every four makes it past fifth grade.
- Children born to uneducated mothers are nearly twice as likely to die before the age 5 as those born to mothers who completed primary school (Save the Children, report)
- The proportion of children of secondary school age who attend secondary school amounts only to 60 % in the scale of the world. (Source: UNICEF, Progress For Children: A Child Survival Report Card)
- In 114 countries primary education lasts for 6 years only (DevInfo)
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