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Article: EDUCATING GIRLS: GENDER GAPS AND GAINS - A CHART.
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- WIN News
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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In 1995, worldwide there were 1.4 billion children aged 6 to 17, of whom 428 million, almost all in the developing world, were not enrolled in school. Among children aged 6-11, 145 million did not have the benefit of even basic primary education. Girls constitute the majority out-of-school children; 236 million girls and 192 million boys either never entered school or dropped out early.
THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP IN EDUCATION
"Worldwide, between 1985 and 1995, girls' enrollment rates rose slightly faster than those of boys, narrowing gender differentials in ...