Figures for the Human Security Report 2012
Figure 4.6 Primary School Attendance Rates
and Conflict in the DRC, 2000–2009
200
Primary Conflict
Region
Gross Attendance Rate (%)
180
160
Secondary
Conflict Regions
140
Other Regions
120
100
80
60
40
Period of Conflict
20
Period of War
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Year
Data Sources: EPDC; UCDP/HSRP.
Primary school attendance in the DRC’s conflict-affected North Kivu region
increased by over a third from 2000 to 2007—likely because of reduced violence
and increased international aid following the 2002 peace deal.
Note: Because the DRC experienced a high level of non-state and one-sided violence between 2002 and 2005 while
no state-based armed conflict was recorded at the same time, we include deaths from all three types of organized
violence in this graph.
Citation and Data Information
Human Security Report Project. Human Security Report 2012: Sexual Violence, Education, and War: Beyond the Mainstream Narrative. Vancouver:
Human Security Press, 2012.
Education Policy and Data Center (EPDC), "How do Violent Conflicts Affect School Enrolment? Analysis of Sub-national Evidence from 19
Countries," (Geneva: UNESCO, 2010), Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011 - The Hidden Crisis:
Armed Conflict and Education, 15, http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001912/191248e.pdf (accessed 21 July 2012); Uppsala Conflict Data
Program (UCDP), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden/ Human Security Report Project, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, Canada.