Participation in education

Educational opportunities continued to expand across Asia and the Pacific at all levels of education over the last two decades. As a result, in 2000, while a typical four-year-old girl in the region could expect to stay in the education system for 8.7 years, the duration of education for such a girl increased to 12 years in 2012. For a typical four-year-old boy, the expected years of schooling were 9.7 and 12.3, respectively, for 2000 and 2012. However, in 2012, as many as 18 million children of primary-school age were still out of school.

Related Subject(s): Population and Demography