Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women

164 Appendix 1
Table A1.7
Female and male
gross primary
enrollment rates
and ratios, 1990 and
2000, and projections
for 2005 and 2015
(continued)
Region/country
Female
rate
1990 2000 2005 2015
Male
rate
Female
to male
ratio
Female
rate
Male
rate
Female
to male
ratio
Projected
female
to male
ratio Rank a ratio Rank a
Projected
female
to male
Colombia 109.4 95.3 1.15 112.1 112.7 1 0.93 3 0.78 4
Costa Rica 100.1 101.4 0.99 105.3 108.3 0.97 0.96 3 0.94 3
Cuba 96.2 99.1 0.97 99.8 103.9 0.96 0.96 3 0.95 3
Dominica — — — — — — — — — —
Dominican Republic — — — 122.2 125.7 0.97 — — — —
Ecuador — — — 114.9 115.1 1 — — — —
El Salvador 81.5 80.7 1.01 106.9 111.6 0.96 0.94 3 0.88 4
Grenada — — — — — — — — — —
Guatemala 72.4 82.6 0.88 97.7 106.5 0.92 0.94 3 0.98 3
Guyana 92.9 94.2 0.99 117.7 121.6 0.97 0.96 3 0.94 3
Haiti 46.4 49.1 0.94 — — — — — — —
Honduras 111.5 106.1 1.05 107.1 105 1.02 1 2 0.98 3
Jamaica 100.9 101.7 0.99 99.1 100.1 0.99 0.99 3 0.99 3
Mexico 112.4 115.2 0.98 112.7 113.6 0.99 1 2 1 2
Nicaragua 96.5 90.7 1.06 104.1 103 1.01 0.99 3 0.94 3
Panama 104.1 108.3 0.96 110.1 113.1 0.97 0.98 3 0.99 3
Paraguay 103.5 107.2 0.97 111 115.2 0.96 0.96 3 0.95 3
Peru 116.8 120.1 0.97 126.4 127.5 0.99 1 2 1.02 1
St. Kitts and Nevis — — — — — — — — — —
St. Lucia 134.9 142.5 0.95 109.2 115.4 0.95 0.95 3 0.95 3
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
— — — — — — — — — —
Suriname 100.1 100.4 1 126.5 126.8 1 1 2 1 2
Trinidad and Tobago 96.4 97 0.99 99.4 101.4 0.98 0.98 3 0.97 3
Uruguay 107.9 109.2 0.99 108.5 110.2 0.98 0.98 3 0.97 3
Venezuela 97.2 94.3 1.03 101 102.8 0.98 0.96 3 0.9 3
Middle East and North Africa
Algeria 92.1 108.8 0.85 107.4 116.4 0.92 0.96 3 1.03 1
Bahrain 110.2 110 1 103.1 103.3 1 1 2 1 2
Djibouti 33.5 46.8 0.71 34.7 45.9 0.76 0.79 4 0.84 4
Egypt 85.9 101.5 0.85 96.1 102.9 0.93 0.97 3 1.05 1
Iraq 106.6 126 0.85 91.3 111.4 0.82 0.81 4 0.77 4
Israel 99.5 96.4 1.03 113.6 114.1 1 0.99 3 0.96 3
Jordan 101 100.3 1.01 101 100.6 1 1 2 0.99 3
Kuwait 58.7 61.7 0.95 93.3 94.8 0.98 1 2 1.02 1
Lebanon — — — 97.2 100.6 0.97 — — — —
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 101.4 108.1 0.94 116.6 114.6 1.02 1.06 1 1.14 1
Morocco 53 77.1 0.69 87.7 100.8 0.87 0.96 3 1.14 1
Oman 81.9 90.3 0.91 70.8 73.7 0.96 0.98 3 1.03 1
Palestinian Autonomous
Territories
— — — 108.5 107.3 1.01 — — — —
Qatar 97.2 104.1 0.93 104.5 104.8 1 1.03 1 1.11 1
Saudi Arabia 71.6 81.9 0.87 66.2 68.7 0.96 1 2 1.1 1
Sudan 45.7 59.4 0.77 54 63.5 0.85 0.89 4 0.97 3
Syrian Arab Republic 102.3 114.2 0.9 105.1 113 0.93 0.95 3 0.98 3
Tunisia 106.6 119.5 0.89 114.7 119.8 0.96 0.99 3 1.07 1
United Arab Emirates 104 100.7 1.03 98.9 99.2 1 0.99 3 0.96 3
Yemen 32.7 82.7 0.45 61 96.5 0.63 0.72 4 0.9 3
South Asia
Afghanistan 20.6 37.2 0.55 — — — — — — —
Bangladesh 73.6 85.2 0.86 100.9 99.7 1.01 1.09 1 1.24 1
Bhutan — — — — — — — — — —
India 84.5 111.2 0.76 91.7 110.8 0.83 0.87 4 0.93 3