As we app
proach ‘Mala
ala Day’ on 10
0 November, the Global M
Monitoring Reeport revealss that Pakistaan scores in the bottom tten of new co
ountry rankin
ngs for educattion of poor ffemales Pauline Ro
ose, Director of the Education for All Global Monito ring Report says: “As we sstand togetheer on ‘Malala D
Day’, it is vital to stand up ffor what Mala
ala believes inn, and to put the spotlightt on the extreme disadvanttage that man
ny poor girls a
and young wo
omen face in getting to scchool. Our new EEducation forr All Global M
Monitoring Rep
port and our nnew interactiive website ‐ World Inequa
ality Database in Education, WIDE ‐ provvides us with a
a global scoreecard rankingg the extent o
of education poverty in
n countries arround the worrld. Pakistan iis in the bottoom ten counttries for the prroportion of poorest girls who havee never even sspent time in a classroom. Only six Africcan countries are in a worsse situation. It is also in th
he bottom ten
n for the amo
ount of time tthat young woomen have sp
pent in school in their life‐ttime. Almost tw
wo‐thirds of poorest girls in
n Pakistan have never beenn to school. TThe long term
m neglect of education
n means that the poorest yyoung women
n in the counttry have only spent around
d a year in sch
hool on averag
ge. Without a real step cha
ange by the government too give these cchildren and yyoung people the education
n and training
g they need, in
ncluding a seccond chance ffor those whoo have missed
d out, they w
will be denied eq
qual opportun
nities in work and life forevver.” COUNTRY SCOREC
CARDS Percenttage of poorrest young ggirls aged 7‐16 w
who have ne
ever been to
o school Ranking Country Perccentage (%)
1 2 3 4 5 6 Somalia 95%
Niger 78%
Liberia 77%
Mali 75%
Burkina Faso 71%
Guinea 68%
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Pakistan 62%
Yemen 58%
Benin 55%
Côte d’Ivoirre 52%
Nigeria 51%
Sierra Leone
e 50%
Gambia 48%
Average years of education for poorest 117‐22 year o
old females Ranking Cou
untry 1
2 3 44 5 6 7 88 9 10 11 12 13 Averaage yeaars Som
malia 0
0.3
Nigger 0
0.4
Maali 0
0.5
Guinea 0
0.5
Guinea‐Bissau 0
0.8
Yem
men Cen
ntral African Rep
public 0
0.8
Burrkina Faso 0
0.9
Pakkistan 1
1.0
Ben
nin 1
1.1
Sierra Leone 1
1.3
Côtte d’Ivoire 1
1.3
Gam
mbia 1
1.6
0
0.8
Central African Republic 46%
Madagascar 46%
Guinea‐Bissau 44%
Senegal 43%
Ethiopia 42%
Djibouti 40%
Burundi 38%
Zambia 36%
Togo 34%
Mauritania 32%
Iraq 32%
D. R. Congo 31%
India 30%
Haiti 27%
Ghana 26%
Timor‐Leste 24%
Mozambique 23%
Nepal 22%
Egypt 21%
U. R. Tanzania 20%
Kenya 19%
Uganda 18%
Philippines 16%
Swaziland 15%
38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Lesotho 14%
Suriname 13%
Vanuatu 13%
Rwanda 10%
Honduras 10%
49 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Bangladesh 9%
Malawi 9%
Tajikistan 8%
Congo 8%
Cambodia 8%
Syrian A. R. 7%
38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 TFYR Macedonia 7%
49 Madagascar 1.8
Senegal 2.0
Ethiopia 2.1
Burundi 2.2
Liberia 2.2
Djibouti 2.4
Togo 2.4
Mozambique 2.5
Mauritania 2.8
India 2.9
Iraq 3.0
Haiti 3.1
Nepal 3.2
D. R. Congo 3.2
Ghana 3.6
Rwanda 3.7
Nigeria 4.1
Uganda 4.1
Honduras 4.1
U. R. Tanzania 4.2
Bangladesh 4.4
Cambodia 4.5
Zambia 4.6
Malawi Sao Tome and Principe 4.8
Congo 5.1
Syrian A. R. 5.4
Timor‐Leste 5.9
Egypt 6.1
Kenya 6.3
Swaziland 6.3
Mongolia 6.5
Lesotho 6.7
Suriname 6.7
Indonesia Dominican Republic 6.7
5.1
6.8
50 51 52 53 54 55 Republic of Moldova 7%
Namibia 7%
Azerbaijan 6%
Mongolia 5%
Montenegro 5%
Serbia Sao Tome and Principe 5%
Indonesia 4%
Maldives Dominican Republic 4%
Zimbabwe 4%
Guyana 2%
Albania 2%
Colombia 2%
Georgia Trinidad and Tobago 50 51 52 53 54 55 Bhutan 6.8
Philippines 7.0
Namibia 7.1
Bolivia, P. S. 7.1
Belize 7.4
Colombia 7.6
56 57 58 Guyana 7.7
TFYR Macedonia 7.7
Vanuatu 7.7
Zimbabwe 7.9
Tajikistan 8.6
Serbia 8.8
Albania 8.9
Montenegro 9.0
1%
59 60 61 62 63 64 Maldives 9.1
1%
65 9.3
Jordan 1%
Belize 1%
Bolivia, P. S. 1%
Bhutan 1%
1%
71 Ukraine Bosnia and Herzegovina 66 67 68 69 70 Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina 1%
71 72 Kazakhstan 0%
72 73 74 75 Armenia 0%
Cuba 0%
Jamaica 0%
73 74 75 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 4%
4%
Jamaica 10.1
Georgia 10.6
Jordan 10.8
Cuba 10.8
Armenia Trinidad and Tobago Republic of Moldova 10.9
Kazakhstan 11.6
Ukraine 12.3
Source: World Inequality Database on Education http://www.education‐inequalities.org/ 9.7
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