Millennium Development Goal Two

Target: Ensure that by 2015 children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

• The world is edging closer to universal primary education, but too slowly to meet the 2015 target. In the developing world as a whole, 88% of children of official primary school age were enrolled in primary education in 2007, up from 83% in 2000. 
• 72 million children worldwide were denied the right to education in 2007.
• Enrolment in sub-Saharan Africa has increased by 15 percentage points between 2000 and 2007. However, despite this breakthrough, almost half of all children not attending primary school live in this region.
• One quarter of the children in the world who are not attending primary school live in southwest Asia. In Pakistan more than a third of children are out of school.
• 95% of primary age children in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 94% in South Eastern Asia, are in school.
  

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