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The economic indicators in Exhibit 2, such as gross national income per
capita, reveal great disparity in the economic resources available, and also
that different policies exist about the percentage of funds that are spent on
education. Economically, the PIRLS 2006 countries ranged from Luxembourg
and Norway at the high end to Georgia, Indonesia, and Moldova at the low
end. Although many of the PIRLS 2006 participants had 99 to 100 percent
of their fourth-grade (or grade assessed) students in school, there were
differences in enrollment rates. Finally, pupil-teacher ratios ranged from 10
to 12 for a number of participants to 28 in Morocco and 35 in South Africa.
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