General Article Millennium Development Goal 2: achieving universal primary education

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Millennium Development Goal 2: achieve universal primary education

Target

Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Quick facts

  • Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 89 per cent in 2008, up from 83 per cent in 2000. 
  • The current pace of progress is insufficient to meet the target by 2015. 
  • About 69 million school-age children are not in school. Almost half of them (31 million) are...

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