Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women

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Table A1.8
Female and male
gross secondary
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
Haiti 20.2 21.1 0.96 — — — — — — —
Honduras — — — — — — — — — —
Jamaica 67.1 63.6 1.06 84.8 81.9 1.04 1.03 1 1.01 1
Mexico 53.5 53 1.01 77.3 73.4 1.05 1.07 1 1.11 1
Nicaragua 46.7 34 1.37 58.4 49.7 1.18 1.09 1 0.89 4
Panama 64.7 60.5 1.07 71.1 67.3 1.06 1.06 1 1.05 1
Paraguay 31.6 30.3 1.04 60.8 58.8 1.03 1.02 1 1.02 1
Peru — — — 82.4 88.7 0.93 — — — —
St. Kitts and Nevis — — — — — — — — — —
St. Lucia 62.8 43.3 1.45 100.4 76.9 1.31 1.24 1 1.1 1
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
— — — — — — — — — —
Suriname 55.8 48.5 1.15 94.3 80 1.18 1.19 1 1.23 1
Trinidad and Tobago 82.4 78.5 1.05 83.6 78.1 1.07 1.08 1 1.1 1
Uruguay — — — 104.5 91.8 1.14 — — — —
Venezuela 40.3 29.2 1.38 64.8 54.1 1.2 1.11 1 0.93 3
Middle East and North Africa
Algeria 54.3 67.4 0.81 73.4 68.2 1.08 1.22 1 1.49 1
Bahrain 101.4 98.1 1.03 105.1 97.8 1.07 1.09 1 1.13 1
Djibouti 10.7 16.7 0.64 14.4 23.3 0.62 0.61 5 0.59 5
Egypt 68.2 83.9 0.81 83.1 88.2 0.94 1 2 1.13 1
Iraq 38.1 59.8 0.64 29.1 47.1 0.62 0.61 5 0.59 5
Israel 91.5 84.9 1.08 93 93.5 0.99 0.95 3 0.85 4
Jordan 64.8 62.1 1.04 89 86.4 1.03 1.02 1 1.02 1
Kuwait 42.5 43.3 0.98 56.9 55 1.04 1.07 1 1.13 1
Lebanon — — — 79.4 72 1.1 — — — —
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya — — — — — — — — — —
Morocco 29.9 40.9 0.73 35 43.6 0.8 0.84 4 0.91 3
Oman 40.2 51.2 0.78 67.5 68.9 0.98 1.08 1 1.28 1
Palestinian Autonomous
Territory
— — — 85.7 79.6 1.08 — — — —
Qatar 85.6 78.8 1.09 91.7 86.4 1.06 1.05 1 1.02 1
Saudi Arabia 41.5 51.7 0.8 64.3 71.2 0.9 0.95 3 1.05 1
Sudan 19.1 24.2 0.79 — — — — — — —
Syrian Arab Republic 43.7 59.8 0.73 40.8 45.7 0.89 0.97 3 1.13 1
Tunisia 39.5 50 0.79 80.4 76.3 1.05 1.18 1 1.44 1
United Arab Emirates 72.3 57.9 1.25 79.7 71.1 1.12 1.06 1 0.93 3
Yemen — — — — — — — — — —
South Asia
Afghanistan — — — — — — — — — —
Bangladesh 13.6 26 0.52 46.9 44.6 1.05 1.32 1 1.85 1
Bhutan — — — — — — — — — —
India 32.7 54.8 0.6 40.1 56.7 0.71 0.76 4 0.88 4
Iran, Islamic Rep. 50 66.9 0.75 75.4 80.7 0.93 1.02 1 1.2 1
Maldives — — — 57.2 53.4 1.07 — — — —
Nepal 20.7 46.7 0.44 43.2 57.5 0.75 0.91 3 1.21 1
Pakistan 16.2 33.7 0.48 19.7 29.1 0.68 0.78 4 0.98 3
Sri Lanka 78.5 72.4 1.09 — — — — — — —
Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola — — — 16 19.3 0.83 — — — —
Benin 6.8 16.6 0.41 13.5 30.1 0.45 0.47 5 0.51 5
Botswana 45 40.8 1.1 81.5 76.8 1.06 1.04 1 1 2