ABSTRACT
In every region of the world (see Box 3.1 for an explanation of the regional groupings), enrollment rates have grown considerably at one or more levels of education since 1960. Over the forty-five-year period (see, again, Figure 3.1), the primary gross enrollment rate in South and West Asia climbed over 70 percentage points (from 40 percent to 111 percent), whereas the rate in sub-Saharan Africa increased about 60 percentage points (from 40 percent to 100 percent), and the Arab States boosted their rates from just under 60 percent to about 100 percent.
