Top Ten Facts - Pakistan
An education remains a promise unkept to millions of illiterates in Pakistan.
- Over 50 percent of the country aged 15 and above are illiterate. Only 1 in 3 women can read and write.
http://www.efareport.unesco.org/ (2007)
- Pakistan has one of the lowest education budgets in the world, spending just 2 percent of its national GDP on education in 2004.
http://www.efareport.unesco.org/ (2007)
- For every 100 men, 57 women are illiterate giving Pakistan one of the highest gender disparities in the world.
http://www.efareport.unesco.org/ (2007)
- In rural Balochistan province, only 7 percent of girls can read and write.
Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2004-5
- 6.5 million children under 9 years old out of school in Pakistan, one of the highest numbers in the world, with many working.
http://www.efareport.unesco.org/ (2007)
- In Pakistan a legal right to free education does not exist and compulsory education is only stated necessary from ages 5 to 9.
http://www.efareport.unesco.org/ (2007)
- 42 percent of all children shun the public school system to attend private schools and the numbers are not slowing down.
http://www.moe.gov.pk/state_of_edu_pakistan.pdf
- If it’s 1 out of 2 children that begin school, it’s likely another 1 in 2 drop out before they even complete it in Pakistan.
Country Report of Pakistan on 'Gender Equality in Basic Education'
- By 2050, Pakistan will have the 4th largest population in the world behind, China, India and the USA.
UN World Population Revision 2004
- Over a third of all public schools have no boundary wall, no toilet or drinking water facility on site. One in five villages have no school at all.
http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/fbs/publications/nec2005/summary.pdf
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