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Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education

DEFINITION :NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

(Source : (Source : UNITED NATIONS Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring the Millenn

UNITED NATIONS Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, 2003) ium Development Goals, 2003)

Net primary enrolment ratio is the ratio

• f

the

number of children of official school age (as defined by the national education system) who are enrolled in primary school to the total population

• f

children

• f
• fficial

school age.

Primary education provides children with

basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills along with an elementary understanding

• f

such subjects as history, geography, natural science, social science, art and music

DEFINITION :NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

( (Source

Source :

: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS))

UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS))

Total net primary enrolment rate in primary education is the number of children of official primary school age who are enrolled in primary or secondary education as a percentage

• f the total children of the official primary school age

population

Year

National Data International Data (UIS Data) NER Denominator: (population) Denominator: (population) NER

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994

87.5 624,801

1995

86.9 669,679

1996

87.9 709,470

1997

89.8 750,545

1998

90.9 783,752

1999

92.2 819,625 349,217 98.9

2000

91.7 857,911 360,044 99.1

2001

92.1 894,649 373,263 99.0

2002

92.0 928,839 389,294 98.4

2003

91.3 963,063 407,585 94.6

2004

89.0 999,247 426,941 88.6

2005

87.5 1,035,374 445,669 82.4

2006

83.9 1,070,808 462,532 79.8

2007

477,131 77.4

2008

Why is Discrepancies

Differences between national education systems and

ISCED97

Differences between the national population estimates and

the United Nations Population Division population estimates

Differences in used definition of indicators