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Universal access to basic education
and completion of primary education by 80% of children
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Trend
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Increasing, with a narrowing gender gap. There are
now more children in school than there ever were before
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1990
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78%
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2000
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82%
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2005 goal
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Elimination of gender disparities in primary and
secondary education
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2010 goal
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A further 50% reduction of children not in school
and a net primary school enrolment of at least 90%
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Comments
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While net primary enrolment is increasing at a higher
rate than population growth, there are still more
than 100 million children without access to basic
education, 60 million of them girls. These are overwhelmingly
working children, children affected by disability,
HIV/AIDS or conflict, children of poor families, children
of ethnic minorities, children in rural, peri-urban
and remote areas and, above all, girls.
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Reduce adult illiteracy rate to 50%
of the 1990 level
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Trend
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16% decrease, although the number hovers around 880
million due to population growth
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1990
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25% (895 million illiterate adults)
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2000
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21% (875 million illiterate adults)
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Comments
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Illiteracy has become concentrated regionally in
South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. It has also become
concentrated among women.
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Sources: United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General,
‘We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the
World Summit for Children’, A/S-27/3, United Nations, New
York, 4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for the
Special Session of the General Assembly on Children,‘A world
fit for children’, Revised draft outcome document A/AC-256/
CRP.6/Rev. 3, United Nations, New York, June 2001.
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