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With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, primary age and adolescent males are more likely to be out-of-school than their female peers
Topic: EducationSource
Citation: A growing number of children and adolescents are out of school as aid fails to meet the mark, pp. 4-5 Author(s): UNESCO Institution(s): UNESCO Institute for Statistics Link: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/Documents/fs-31-out-of-school-children-en.pdf Nation(s): international Year(s): 2015 Source: Primary Type: Statistical AnalysisDiscussion
Other Notes:2.2 million more boys out of school than girls (36.8 vs. 34.6) | Unsurprisingly, this report seems to focus in on the one geographical area in which females are at the disadvantage