Education: key facts and figures worldwide
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- 72 million children are currently out of school, the majority of whom are girls.
- There are at least 771 million illiterate adults worldwide, of whom 64 per cent are women.
- Two of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relate directly to education. MDG 2 aims to achieve universal primary education by 2015, ensuring that children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. MDG 3 – to promote gender equality and empower women – seeks to ...
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