MDG GOAL 2: Achieve universal primary education
This goal aimed at ensuring that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Achievements and failures
• Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 91% in 2015, up from 83% in 2000.
• In 2015, 57 million children of primary school age were out of school.
• Among youth aged 15 to 24, the literacy rate has improved globally from 83% to 91% between 1990 and 2015, and the gap between women and men has narrowed.
• In the developing regions, children in the poorest households are four times as likely to be out of school as those in the richest households.
• In countries affected by conflict, the proportion of out-of-school children increased from 30% in 1999 to 36 % in 2012.
– By UN
