I have mentioned some of these shocking facts in my other blogs, yet I want to emphasize ten key facts that you should know, associated with Education:
- It would cost $6 billion to provide universal education to the world
- An estimated 75 million children of primary school age world wide are currently out of school with partial projections suggesting that at least 29 million children will still be missing out on their right to an education in 2015
- Education can be connected to most to many social and economic issues– unemployment, poverty, homelessness, health, rates of incarceration, social assistance, and child well being
- Women and girls make up two-thirds of illiterate people
- Four of the world’s most populated countries: Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan which alone account for 61 percent of the world’s illiterate adults
- To achieve universal primary education by 2015, more than 15 million new teachers will be needed – three million of them in sub-Saharan Africa alone – requiring massive investment in teacher training
- Based on enrollment data, about 72 million children of primary school age in the developing world were not in school in 2005
- Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names
- 22% of adult Canadians have serious problems with reading and comprehension
- Children out of education worldwide is 121 million
Sources: Poverty Statistics
