The State of the World's Children 1998

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Table 4

Education

	Under-5 mortality rank	Adult literacy rate				Number of sets per 1000 population 1994		Primary school enrollment ratio						% of primary school children reaching grade 5 1990-95	Secondary school enrolment ratio 1990-95 (gross)
		1980		1995		radio	television	1960 (gross)		1990-95 (gross)		1993-97 (net)			male	female
		male	female	male	female	radio	television	male	female	male	female	male	female		male	female
Afghanistan	4	33	6	47	15	118	10	14	2	63	32	36y	11y	43x	32	11
Albania	88	-	-	-	-	190	91	102	86	98	99	95	97	82	36	37
Algeria	92	55	24	74	49	236	79	55	37	111	98	99	91	95	66	58
Andorra	175	-	-	-	-	211	367	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Angola	2	16x	7x	56x	29x	30	7	30	14	95	87	-	-	34	-	-
Antigua and Barbuda	127	-	-	-	-	427	370	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Argentina	117	94	94	96	96	673	219	99	99	108	107	-	-	-	70	75
Armenia	108	-	-	100	99	-	225	-	-	87	93	-	-	-	80	90
Australia	175	-	-	-	-	1291	489	103	103	107	106	98	98	99	83	86
Austria	175	-	-	-	-	619	480	106	104	103	103	100	100	96	109	104
Azerbaijan	85	-	-	100	99	-	-	-	-	120	115	-	-	-	87	85
Bahamas	123	98	96	99	98	735	226	125	112	100	103	92x	96x	78	95	95
Bahrain	127	80	60	89	79	556	430	103	50	110	113	99	100	94	97	100
Bangladesh	44	41	17	49	26	47	6	80	31	84	73	82y	82y	47x	25	13
Barbados	152	97	94	98	97	877	279	116	101	90	91	78x	78x	-	90x	80
Belarus	139	-	-	100	99	285	226	-	-	98	95	97	94	98	92	97
Belgium	164	99x	99x	-	-	774	453	111	108	99	100	98	98	-	103	104
Belize	85	-	-	70	70	581	167	-	-	113	109	100	98	70	46	52
Benin	31	28	10	49	26	91	6	40	15	88	44	74	43	61	17	7
Bhutan	36	41	15	56	28	17	-	5	0	31	19x	-	-	82	7x	2
Bolivia	51	81	59	91	76	670	113	70	43	99	90	90	89	60	40	34
Bosnia and Herzegovina	143	-	-	-	-	227	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Botswana	80	70	43	81	60	125	17	37	43	114	115	94	99	89	54	58
Brazil	79	76	73	83	83	393	209	58	56	-	-	93y	94y	70	-	-
Brunei Darussalam	154	86	68	93	83	271	241	117	101	113	106	91	91	95	67	73
Bulgaria	136	-	-	99	98	454	363	94	92	88	84	98	96	95	68	72
Burkina Faso	23	19	4	30	9	28	6	12	5	48	31	37	24	79	12	6
Burundi	17	37	12	49	23	64	2	31	10	76	62	56	48	74	8	5
Cambodia	19	74x	23x	80x	53x	108	8	85	48	130	106	-	-	50	31	18
Cameroon	51	59	30	75	52	148	24	81	40	93	84	69	60	66	32	22
Canada	164	-	-	-	-	1051	685	108	105	104	102	96	94	97	106	106
Cape Verde	65	64	38	81	64	176	3	40	28	132	130	100	100	-	28	26
Central African Rep.	21	41	19	69	52	73	5	52	11	88x	55x	70y	55y	24	17x	6
Chad	27	47	19	62	35	246	1	30	4	75	36	-	-	28	13	3
Chile	149	92	91	95	95	345	211	87	86	100	98	87	85	92	66	70
China	82	79	53	90	73	184	189	131	78	120	116	99	98	92	60	51
Colombia	104	87	87	91	91	178	118	71	72	118	120	90y	91y	58	57	68
Comoros	39	56	40	64	50	129	0	22	4	81	69	58	48	45	21	17
Congo	48	65	40	83	67	115	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	54	-	-
Congo, Dem. Rep.	12	75	45	87	68	98	2	93	34	78	58	71	50	64	33	15
Cook Islands	108	-	-	-	99x	700	179	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Costa Rica	146	92	91	95	95	260	142	99	96	107	105	86x	87x	89	47	51
Côte d'Ivoire	25	34	14	50	30	143	60	64	23	78	59	59y	46y	73	33	17
Croatia	154	-	-	98	97	261	253	-	-	87	86	83	82	98	75	81
Cuba	159	91	87	96	95	347	171	109	108	104	103	99	99	94	70	79
Cyprus	159	-	-	98x	91x	300	320	-	-	100	100	96	96	100	96	98
Czech Rep.	164	-	-	-	-	631	478	-	-	100	100	98	98	99	90	94
Denmark	175	-	-	-	-	1036	539	103	103	99	99	98	99	99	113	117
Djibouti	24	45	18	60	33	81	44	32	12	43	33	37	28	82	15	10
Dominica	133	-	-	-	-	600	75	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	-	-
Dominican Rep.	74	75	74	82	82	173	90	75	74	103	104	79	83	58	34	47
Ecuador	88	86	79	92	88	327	88	82	75	124	122	91	92	77	54	56
Egypt	58	54	26	64	39	307	109	79	52	105	91	83y	72y	98	82	71
El Salvador	88	66	60	74	70	443	443	59	56	79	80	78	80	58	27	30
Equatorial Guinea	18	77	45	90	68	424	10	92	54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Eritrea	41	-	-	-	-	87	0	-	-	54	43	33	30	79	19	13
Estonia	145	-	-	98	98	467	367	-	-	103	100	93	94	97	92	90
Ethiopia	16	32	14	46	25	197	4	9	3	33	21	28	19	51	11	10
Fiji	121	87	79	94	89	607	17	110	96	128	127	99x	100x	87	64	65
Finland	189	-	-	-	-	1003	511	100	95	100	100	99	99	100	110	130
France	175	99x	98x	-	-	891	591	144	143	107	105	99	99	96	104	107
Gabon	28	54	28	74	53	147	38	-	-	-	-	87y	86y	50x	-	-
Gambia	49	37	13	53	25	163	3	21	10	79	56	51y	43y	87	25	13
Georgia	113	-	-	100	99	550	459	-	-	82	81	81	82	98	82	76
Germany	175	-	-	-	-	935	560	-	-	97	98	100	100	99	101	100
Ghana	47	59	31	76	54	229	89	58	31	83	70	70y	69y	80	45	29
Greece	161	93x	76x	98	95	418	206	104	101	95	95	98x	98x	100	99	96
Grenada	104	-	-	-	-	595	337	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guatemala	74	56	41	63	49	68	53	48	39	89	78	61y	55y	-	25	23
Guinea	11	34	11	50	22	43	8	30	11	61	30	39y	26y	54	18	6
Guinea-Bissau	6	53	26	68	43	40	-	35	15	77x	42x	60x	33x	20x	9x	4
Guyana	56	96	93	99	98	491	39	110	99	113x	111x	90	89	93	56x	59
Haiti	34	36	29	48	42	50	5	39	31	58	54	68y	69y	47	22	21
Holy See	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Honduras	97	64	61	73	73	408	78	68	67	111	112	89	91	-	29	37
Hungary	152	98x	98x	99	99	625	429	103	100	97	97	92	94	98	79	83
Iceland	186	-	-	-	-	793	350	-	-	100	96	-	-	-	105	105
India	46	55	25	66	38	81	40	83	44	113	91	75y	61y	62	59	38
Indonesia	67	78	58	90	78	148	62	78	58	117	113	99	95	90	49	41
Iran	96	61	37	78	59	237	62	57	27	104	97	99y	93y	90	76	62
Iraq	39	55	25	71	45	218	75	94	36	98	83	83x	74x	72x	53	34
Ireland	164	-	-	-	-	636	302	107	112	104	104	100	100	100	110	115
Israel	161	93x	83x	97x	93x	478	275	99	97	95	95	-	-	100	83	89
Italy	164	95x	92x	99	98	802	437	112	109	98	99	-	-	97	81	82
Jamaica	154	73	81	81	89	436	142	78	79	109	108	100	100	96	62	70
Japan	175	100x	99x	-	-	912	681	103	102	102	102	100	100	100	98	99
Jordan	117	82	54	93	79	243	76	-	-	94	95	89x	89	98	52	54
Kazakstan	84	-	-	100	99	376	250	-	-	86	86	-	-	-	89	92
Kenya	55	72	44	86	70	88	11	62	29	92	91	85y	83y	68	28	23
Kiribati	61	-	-	-	92x	209	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	90	-	-
Korea, Dem. People's Rep.	108	-	-	-	-	126	43	-	-	108x	101x	-	-	-	-	-
Korea, Rep. of	164	97	90	99	97	1017	323	108	94	95	96	98	99	100	100	99
Kuwait	147	73	59	82	75	445	380	132	99	69	69	65	65	100	65	64
Kyrgyzstan	80	-	-	99	95	-	-	-	-	110	111	86y	87y	92	84	89
Lao People's Dem. Rep.	35	56	28	69	44	127	8	43	20	123	92	70y	67y	53	31	19
Latvia	133	-	-	100	100	662	465	-	-	85	81	86	82	96	84	89
Lebanon	88	91	82	95	90	889	360	111	105	114	110	-	-	-	75	83

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