Net Enrolment Ratio in Primary Education

(Source: UNITED NATIONS Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, 2003) DEFINITION :NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION (Source: UNITED NATIONS Handbook of Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals, 2003) Net primary enrolment ratio is the ratio of the number of children of official school age (as defined by the national education system) who are enrolled in primary school to the total population of children of official school age. Primary education provides children with basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills along with an elementary understanding of such subjects as history, geography, natural science, social science, art and music

( Source : UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS)) DEFINITION :NET ENROLMENT RATIO IN PRIMARY EDUCATION ( Source : UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS)) Total net primary enrolment rate in primary education is the number of children of official primary school age who are enrolled in primary or secondary education as a percentage of the total children of the official primary school age population

Year National DataInternational Data (UIS Data) NER Denominator: (population) NER , , , , , ,625349, ,911360, ,649373, ,839389, ,063407, ,247426, ,035,374445, ,070,808462, ,

Why is Discrepancies Differences between national education systems and ISCED97 Differences between the national population estimates and the United Nations Population Division population estimates Differences in used definition of indicators