• The 8 Millennium Goals •
2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
- Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Quick Facts
- Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 89 per cent in 2008, up from 83 per cent in 2000.
- The current pace of progress is insufficient to meet the target by 2015.
- About 69 million school-age children are not in school. Almost half of them (31 million) are in sub-Saharan Africa, and more than a quarter (18 million) are in Southern Asia.
