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<strong>EFA</strong> PROGRESS: WHERE DO WE STAND? / 43<br />

East Asia and the Pacific<br />

South and<br />

West Asia<br />

Latin America and the Caribbean<br />

NIR<br />

GIR<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

Intake rates (%)<br />

50<br />

0<br />

Macao, China<br />

China<br />

Rep. of Korea<br />

Tonga<br />

Indonesia<br />

Myanmar<br />

Lao PDR<br />

Cambodia<br />

Marshall Is<br />

Philippines<br />

Maldives<br />

Sri Lanka<br />

Bangla<strong>de</strong>sh<br />

Dominica<br />

Turks/Caicos Is<br />

Cuba<br />

Chile<br />

St Vincent/Grenad.<br />

Trinidad/Tobago<br />

Jamaica<br />

Bermuda<br />

Venezuela<br />

Saint Lucia<br />

Aruba<br />

Anguilla<br />

Grenada<br />

Costa Rica<br />

Paraguay<br />

Suriname<br />

Br. Virgin Is<br />

Barbados<br />

Argentina<br />

Peru<br />

St Kitts/Nevis<br />

Belize<br />

Bolivia<br />

Panama<br />

Guatemala<br />

El Salvador<br />

Ecuador<br />

Nicaragua<br />

Dominican Rep.<br />

Montserrat<br />

South/<br />

West<br />

Asia<br />

Latin America and the Caribbean Western Europe Central and Eastern Europe<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

40<br />

20<br />

% of total new entrants<br />

0<br />

Bangla<strong>de</strong>sh<br />

Maldives<br />

Nicaragua<br />

Uruguay<br />

Honduras<br />

Chile<br />

Dominican Rep.<br />

Colombia<br />

El Salvador<br />

Guatemala<br />

Costa Rica<br />

Guyana<br />

Belize<br />

Bolivia<br />

Turks/Caicos Is<br />

Venezuela<br />

Dominica<br />

Paraguay<br />

Grenada<br />

Ecuador<br />

St Vincent/Grenad.<br />

Trinidad/Tobago<br />

St Kitts/Nevis<br />

Suriname<br />

Br. Virgin Is<br />

Neth. Antilles<br />

Saint Lucia<br />

Peru<br />

Bahamas<br />

Panama<br />

Anguilla<br />

Mexico<br />

Aruba<br />

Jamaica<br />

Argentina<br />

Barbados<br />

Cuba<br />

Bermuda<br />

Switzerland<br />

Malta<br />

Luxembourg<br />

Cyprus<br />

Finland<br />

Swe<strong>de</strong>n<br />

Italy<br />

Iceland<br />

Denmark<br />

Netherlands<br />

Czech Rep.<br />

Slovakia<br />

Hungary<br />

Ukraine<br />

Romania<br />

Croatia<br />

TFYR Macedonia<br />

Latvia<br />

Albania<br />

Lithuania<br />

Belarus<br />

Estonia<br />

Bulgaria<br />

Serbia/Montenegro<br />

2 or more years ol<strong>de</strong>r 1 year ol<strong>de</strong>r At official age Younger<br />

60%). In a majority of countries, however, GIRs<br />

rose between 1998 and 2002. This was<br />

particularly the case in some of the countries with<br />

the lowest rates, which recor<strong>de</strong>d impressive<br />

progress over that period: Guinea, the Niger,<br />

Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and<br />

Yemen had increases of 30% or more (see<br />

statistical annex, Table 4). Exceptions to this<br />

trend inclu<strong>de</strong> Oman, whose GIR <strong>de</strong>clined by<br />

more than 12%.<br />

School participation<br />

Between 1998 and 2002, total enrolment in<br />

primary education rose from 655 million to<br />

671 million children (Table 2.3). Encouragingly,<br />

sub-Saharan Africa, and South and West Asia<br />

saw the highest increases in enrolment, nearly<br />

20 million children each, translating into GER<br />

increases of 11.2 percentage points in the <strong>for</strong>mer<br />

and 7.4 percentage points in the latter. Enrolment<br />

remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, still<br />

facing high fertility: the region’s school-age

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