The title of this year's report is Reaching the marginalized. UNESCO estimates that 72 million children of primary school age were out of school in 2007. The report examines who these children are and why they are excluded from education. The report further argues that there is a persistent financing gap that prevents countries from reaching the goal of education for all and that, based on current trends, 56 million children of primary school age will still be out of school in 2015.
The report introduces a new database on Deprivation and Marginalization in Education that was developed by the EFA Global Monitoring Report team and the Department of Economics at the University of Göttingen. The DME database introduces a measure of "education poverty", defined as the share of the population aged 17 to 22 years with less than 4 years or less than 2 years in school. Data are presented as global snapshots and in individual country profiles. All statistics were calculated with data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).
Excerpt from Nigeria country overview in DME database
Source: Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database, country overviews.
Reference
- UNESCO. 2010. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010: Reaching the marginalized. Paris: UNESCO. (Download in PDF format, 12 MB)
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010
- Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database
- Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008
- Global Education Digest 2009
- Release of 2008 education data by UIS
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