Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:
The Key to Escape from Poverty
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every 100 children at the primary school age enrolled in primary education.119 In Mali, a low-
income country and in Djibouti, a lower middle-income country and also the country with the
lowest primary net enrolment rate, this rate drops to 53 children out of every 100 children at
primary school age.120
In the OIC countries with data available, increases in primary education enrolment rates
occurred in the last 25 years (See . High-income countries like Oman and Kuwait, the
lower middle-income country Morocco and the low-income country Benin are among the highest
achievers.
Figure 4 Net enrolment rate, in primary education (%)
Note: Data is obtained from UNESCO Institute for Statistics' Database. To represent the 1990s, for each country,
the earliest value available in the database from the 1990s has been used. For the 2010s, for each country, the
latest value available for the 2000s has been used. Hence in a few cases the latest value available could be from a
year earlier than 2010. The OIC average is calculated using these values for the countries with data available.
World averages are for the years 1990 and 2014 and obtained directly from the database.
Millions of children of primary school age are still out of school in OIC countries. The rate of
out of school children has dropped in many OIC countries (Se Panel A). Yet the number
of out of school children remains high. The total number of out of school children of primary
school age is calculated as 30.7 million in the OIC in 2010s (See anel B).
119 Primary net enrolment rate for these countries are 99.2 (2015), 95,9 (2014) and 95.4 (2015) percent respectively.
120 Primary net enrolment rate for these countries are 55.7 (2015) and 53.5 (2016) percent respectively.
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Saudi Arabia
Oman
United Arab Emirates
KuwaitQatar
Bahrain
Brunei Darussalam
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
MalaysiaAlgeriaJordan
MaldivesAlbania
AzerbaijanSuriname
Turkey
Iraq
Kazakhstan
LebanonGuyanaGabonLibya
Turkmenistan
Tunisia
Morocco
Egypt
TajikistanUzbekistanCameroonBangladesh
PalestineIndonesiaKyrgyzstan
Yemen
Côte d'IvoireMauritania
Pakistan
Syrian Arab Republic
NigeriaSudan
Djibouti
Sierra Leone
BeninTogo
Mozambique
UgandaComoros
Chad
GuineaGambiaSenegal
Burkina FasoGuinea-Bissau
NigerMali
Afghanistan
Somalia
OIC
World
High Income Upper Middle Income Lower Middle Income Low Income
Netenrolment rate, primary, bothsexes (%)
1990s 2010s