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Education of Disadvantaged Children in OIC:

The Key to Escape from Poverty

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Figure 5 Out of school children of primary school age

Rate of out-of-school children of primary school age, both

sexes (%)

Total number of out of school children

in primary school age in the OIC

Note: Data is obtained from UNESCO Institute for Statistics' Database. To represent out of school rates for 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 2000s has been used. Hence in a few cases latest value available could be

from a year earlier than 2010. For the number of out of school children data available for OIC countries for the

years stated was summed up. Note that the list of countries with data available might be different between the

1990s and the 2010s. To come up with total value for non-OIC countries total value for OIC was subtracted from

the value reported for the World.

Country income is indeed related to enrolment rates but some OIC countries manage to

perform better than predicted by their income levels.

The positive correlation between

country income and enrolment rates among the OIC countries also exist for non-OIC countries

(Se

e Figure 6 P

anel A, B, C, D). The positive correlation is somewhat smaller for OIC countries for

enrolment in pre-primary and lower secondary education while it is higher for enrolment in

upper secondary education compared to the positive correlation between GDP per capita and

enrolment rates in non-OIC countries. Due to generally high primary school enrolment rates in

most of the OIC countries, enrolment in primary school is less correlated with country income

compared to other education levels (See

Figure 6

Panel B). As can be seen i

n Figure 6

Panel B,

countries in all income levels are predicted to have primary net enrolment rates higher than 80

percent. In contrast enrolment to other levels of education is correlated more with GDP per capita

of the country (See

Figure 6

Panels A, C and D). Yet it can be seen that some countries are

performing better than predicted by their income levels at different education levels. In pre-

primary education, Guyana and Malaysia excel at achieving net enrolment rates higher than 80

percent. In lower secondary education, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are among the countries with

net enrolment rates higher than 90 percent. In upper secondary education, Uzbekistan and

Turkey have enrolment rates higher than 70 percent. In contrast high-income countries Oman,

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait performworse than predicted by their GDP per capita in different

education levels.

Algeria

Bangladesh

Benin

Burkina Faso

Chad

Comoros

Djibouti

Gambia

Guinea

Guyana

Indonesia

Iraq

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Mali

Mauritania

Morocco

Mozambique

Niger

Nigeria

Oman

Palestine

Qatar

Senegal

Syrian Arab

Republic

Yemen

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rate of out of school children of primary school

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rate of out of school children of primary school age, 2010s

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million children

OIC non-OIC