Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education DEFINITION NET

Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education

DEFINITION : NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION (Source: UNITED NATIONS Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, 2003) Net primary enrolment ratio is the ratio of the number of children of official school age (as defined by the national education system) who are enrolled in primary school to the total population of children of official school age. Primary education provides children with basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills along with an elementary understanding of such subjects as history, geography, natural science, social science, art and music

DEFINITION : NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION (Source: UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS)) Total net primary enrolment rate in primary education is the number of children of official primary school age who are enrolled in primary or secondary education as a percentage of the total children of the official primary school age population

Year National Data Denominator: NER (population) International Data (UIS Data) Denominator: NER (population) 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 87. 5 86. 9 87. 9 624, 801 669, 679 709, 470 89. 8 90. 9 92. 2 91. 7 92. 1 92. 0 91. 3 89. 0 87. 5 83. 9 750, 545 783, 752 819, 625 857, 911 894, 649 928, 839 963, 063 999, 247 1, 035, 374 1, 070, 808 349, 217 360, 044 373, 263 389, 294 407, 585 426, 941 445, 669 462, 532 477, 131 98. 9 99. 1 99. 0 98. 4 94. 6 88. 6 82. 4 79. 8 77. 4

Why is Discrepancies Differences between national education systems and ISCED 97 Differences between the national population estimates and the United Nations Population Division population estimates Differences in used definition of indicators