Table 5: Gender imbalance amongst pupils
More than + 10%
Lesotho (11%), Trinidad and Tobago (11%)
– 10% to – 20%
Cameroon (10%), Comoros (10%), Mozambi-
+ 3% to + 9%
Mongolia (3%), Nicaragua (3%), Bahamas
(12%), Senegal (12%), Burkina Faso (13%),
(4%), Dominican Republic (4%), Botswana
Egypt (13%), Iran (13%), Laos (14%), Niger
(5%), Namibia (7%),
(14%), Gambia (18%), Guinea (18%), Morocco
que (10%), Mali (11%), Papua New Guinea
(19%)
+ 1% to + 2%
Albania, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Denmark,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Georgia,
– 1% to – 2%
– 3% to – 5%
More than – 20%
Congo/Kinshasa (21%), Central African
Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Korea, Luxembourg,
Republic (22%), Guinea-Bissau (26%), Togo
Malaysia, Panama, South Africa, USA,
(26%), Afghanistan (27%),Chad (29%), Benin
Yugoslavia
(31%), Nepal (39%),
Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia,
In the following countries there is no difference between net primary school
FYROM, Guyana, Libya, Madagascar, Malta,
enrolment for boys and girls: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium,
Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Samoa,
Brunei Darussalam, Cape Verde, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland,
Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tanzania, United Arab
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malawi,
Emirates, Zambia
Mauritius, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Romania,
Belarus, Eritrea, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan,
Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and
Latvia, Tunisia, Turkey, Vanuatu, Venezuela,
Uruguay.
Somalia,
Source: UNICEF – The State of the World’s Children 1999, pp. 106–109.
– 6% to – 9%
Congo/Brazaville (6%), Uganda (7%), Algeria
(8%), Bangladesh (8%), Bolivia (8%), Burundi
(8%), Syria (8%), Ethiopia (9%), Djibouti
(9%), Iraq (9%), Mauritania (9%),
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