Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women

Education projections and country level education data
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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
Iran, Islamic Rep. 102.2 114.7 0.89 84.7 88 0.96 0.99 3 1.07 1
Maldives — — — 131.2 131.1 1 — — — —
Nepal 88.3 144.9 0.61 108 127.7 0.85 0.97 3 1.21 1
Pakistan — — — 63.1 85.2 0.74 — — — —
Sri Lanka 107.8 112 0.96 — — — — — — —
Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola — — — 69.1 78.1 0.88 — — — —
Benin 38.7 78 0.5 77.6 113.4 0.68 0.77 4 0.95 3
Botswana 117.9 110.3 1.07 108.3 108.3 1 0.97 3 0.89 4
Burkina Faso 24.5 39.3 0.62 36.8 51.7 0.71 0.75 4 0.85 4
Burundi 65.1 77.7 0.84 57.9 72.5 0.8 0.78 4 0.74 4
Cameroon 91.7 106.7 0.86 100.2 115.4 0.87 0.88 4 0.89 4
Cape Verde — — — 137.4 140.2 0.98 — — — —
Central African Republic 50.1 78.8 0.63 61.2 88.9 0.69 0.72 4 0.78 4
Chad 33.6 75.2 0.45 56.7 89.6 0.63 0.72 4 0.9 3
Comoros 63.1 87 0.73 80.1 91.7 0.87 0.94 3 1.08 1
Congo, Dem. Rep 60.6 81.4 0.74 — — — — — — —
Congo, Rep. 124.6 141.1 0.88 92.8 101 0.92 0.94 3 0.98 3
Côte d’Ivoire 52.8 74.4 0.71 68.3 89.3 0.76 0.79 4 0.84 4
Equatorial Guinea — — — 114.7 126 0.91 — — — —
Eritrea 21.8 23.1 0.94 53.6 65.3 0.82 0.76 4 0.64 5
Ethiopia 26.4 40.1 0.66 52.4 76.4 0.69 0.7 4 0.73 4
Gabon — — — 143.2 144.4 0.99 — — — —
Gambia 51.3 75.7 0.68 78.3 86.3 0.91 1.02 1 1.25 1
Ghana 66.3 79.7 0.83 76.5 83.8 0.91 0.95 3 1.03 1
Guinea 21.7 45.9 0.47 55.8 77.9 0.72 0.85 4 1.1 1
Guinea-Bissau — — — 66.3 99.1 0.67 — — — —
Kenya 91.9 96.6 0.95 93.4 94.6 0.99 1.01 1 1.05 1
Lesotho 128.2 104.7 1.22 117.7 112.4 1.05 0.97 3 0.8 4
Liberia — — — 99.3 136.7 0.73 — — — —
Madagascar 92.5 94.7 0.98 101.1 105.1 0.96 0.95 3 0.93 3
Malawi 61 72.8 0.84 135.3 138.6 0.98 1.05 1 1.19 1
Mali 20.5 34.9 0.59 51.2 71.2 0.72 0.78 4 0.92 3
Mauritania 42.2 57.1 0.74 80.2 85.8 0.93 1.03 1 1.22 1
Mauritius 109.5 109 1 108.4 108.9 1 1 2 1 2
Mozambique 59.4 78.7 0.75 79.2 103.9 0.76 0.77 4 0.78 4
Namibia 134.1 122.9 1.09 112.9 111.5 1.01 0.97 3 0.89 4
Niger 20.3 34.7 0.58 28.6 42.2 0.68 0.73 4 0.83 4
Nigeria 80.4 102.5 0.78 — — — — — — —
Rwanda 70 71.5 0.98 118.3 119 0.99 1 2 1 2
São Tomé and Principe — — — — — — — — — —
Senegal 49.9 67.9 0.73 70.3 79.3 0.89 0.97 3 1.13 1
Seychelles — — — — — — — — — —
Sierra Leone 40.9 59 0.69 — — — — — — —
Somalia — — — — — — — — — —
South Africa 107.5 109.4 0.98 108.3 114.5 0.95 0.94 3 0.9 3
Swaziland 111.8 114 0.98 121.2 128 0.95 0.94 3 0.9 3
Tanzania, United Rep. 66.4 67.5 0.98 63.2 62.9 1 1.01 1 1.03 1
Togo 86.7 132.3 0.66 110.3 137.9 0.8 0.87 4 1.01 1
Uganda 61.3 76.4 0.8 128.9 142.6 0.9 0.95 3 1.05 1
Zambia — — — 76 80.3 0.95 — — — —
Zimbabwe 107.3 108.3 0.99 93.4 96.5 0.97 0.96 3 0.94 3