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US AID 1996
Latin American and the Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data
Education Indicators

 

EDUCATIONAL EFFICIENCY


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children not in Primary School (000's)

School Children Reaching Grade 5 (%)

Completing Primary level (as % of first-grade entrants)

Primary Entrants proceeding to second. School (%)

Secondary repeaters (as % of Secondary enrolment)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pupils reaching grade 4
(% of cohort)

Repeater rate, primary
(% of total enrollment)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1980

1985

1990

1970

1980

1990

LYA*

1992

1986-93

1990

1990

1989-91

Caribbean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antigua and Barbuda

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

14

 

Bahamas

 

 

84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbados

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

75

 

 

 

Cuba

93

96

93

22

6

4

3

66

95

89

85

3

 

Dominica

86

 

 

 

 

5

4

 

 

85

67

5

 

Dominican Rep.

 

62

62

22

18

17

17

 

 

14

 

 

 

Grenada

89

91

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guyana

96

94

 

9

3

 

6

 

 

97

 

11

 

Haiti

64

 

60

 

19

15

13

70

47

39

24

8

 

Jamaica

99

97

99

 

4

4

4

 

96

85

 

2

 

Saint Kitts and Nevis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

88

 

 

 

Saint Lucia

 

97

97

 

3

 

7

 

 

95

32

3

 

Saint Vincent/Grens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trinidad and Tobago

86

95

95

 

4

4

3

20

95

89

65

2

 

Central America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belize

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costa Rica

82

93

91

10

8

11

8

56

86

79

48

12

 

El Salvador

53

66

 

16

9

8

7

379

58

24

 

4

 

Guatemala

61

68

59

16

15

 

4

735

 

36

 

 

 

Honduras

44

46

 

 

16

 

12

61

 

34

 

10

 

Nicaragua

53

63

56

13

17

17

17

155

55

41

39

7

 

Panama

87

88

87

15

13

10

10

30

82

79

67

8

 

South America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Argentina

75

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolivia

51

 

 

 

 

 

3

286

60

44

 

5

 

Brazil

64

59

50

19

20

19

19

3215

 

20

 

 

 

Chile

79

96

 

10

 

 

 

285

95

77

 

 

 

Colombia

44

68

73

17

13

12

11

1010

59

56

34

20

 

Ecuador

77

74

 

12

10

6

6

 

67

63

 

 

 

Paraguay

74

75

78

18

14

9

9

33

74

59

 

 

 

Peru

84

 

 

17

19

 

14

159

 

 

 

10

 

Suriname

93

92

 

 

22

23

23

 

 

93

 

 

 

Uruguay

96

96

97

14

12

9

10

35

95

93

 

 

 

Venezuela

83

83

79

2

8

8

11

461

78

48

42

6

 

Mexico

86

83

78

15

10

9

9

 

84

72

58

2

 

Sources: UNDP, Human Development Report, 1994.
Pupils reaching grade 4 and primary repeater rate from World Bank, Social Indicators of Development, 1994.
*LYA=latest year available.

 

U.S. Agency for International Development
Washington D.C. 1996.


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