Women and Men in the Caribbean Community

Chapter 1 POPULATIONChart 4.7 Most of population 25 years and over attained less than secondary education100Percentage distribution by educational attainment,1990/199175Percentage distribution50250WomenMenWmenMenWomenMenWomenMenWmenMenWomenMenWomenMenWmenMenWomenMenWomenMenWmenMenWomenMenWomenMenBarbados TheBahamasSt. KittsandNevisAntiguaandBarbudaTrinidad JamaicaMontserratGuyana GrenadaandTobagoSaint St. Vincent BelizeDominicaLucia and theGrenadinesPrimary Secondary UniversitySource: Based on table 4.23.Components do not add up to 100 due to omission of "not stated" category.is urgent need to attain a much higher level (see also box 4.1 on the CARICOM Planfor Education Reform). Data on highest level of educational achievement enable countriesto take stock and assess the quality of its human resource and, considering its social andeconomic development goals, to make further investment in its continuing efforts toachieve these objectives. Since all countries have acknowledged the need to increase accessof their populations to education at higher levels, it is important to continuously evaluatethe situation to determine what levels currently obtain, so that targets can be set for achievinghigher levels.77