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			Education Outcomes: Learning						Barriers to Education
			Learning outcomes						Violence
			Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)			Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)			Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)
Country	Region	Income level	Female	Male	Gap	Female	Male	Gap	Female
Afghanistan	South Asia	Low income	22.60	52.06	29.46	41.59	71.24	29.65	28.70
Honduras	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income	88.73	88.25	-0.48	97.29	94.84	-2.45	16.40
India	South Asia	Lower middle income	69.10	83.45	14.35	90.17	92.99	2.82	17.90
Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income	80.27	85.58	5.31	88.08	87.59	-0.49	13.80
Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income	52.66	71.26	18.60	68.26	81.58	13.32	12.60
Peru	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income	92.02	96.99	4.97	99.35	99.52	0.17	19.80

Afghanistan

Region	Income Level
South Asia	Low income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
22.60	52.06	29.46

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
41.59	71.24	29.65

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
28.70

Honduras

Region	Income Level
Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
88.73	88.25	-0.48

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
97.29	94.84	-2.45

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
16.40

India

Region	Income Level
South Asia	Lower middle income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
69.10	83.45	14.35

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
90.17	92.99	2.82

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
17.90

Kenya

Region	Income Level
Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
80.27	85.58	5.31

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
88.08	87.59	-0.49

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
13.80

Nigeria

Region	Income Level
Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
52.66	71.26	18.60

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
68.26	81.58	13.32

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
12.60

Peru

Region	Income Level
Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
92.02	96.99	4.97

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Female	Male	Gap
99.35	99.52	0.17

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Female
19.80

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Education Outcomes: Enrolment & Attainment outcomes

Adjusted net attendance rates

Adjusted net attendance rate for children of pre-primary (one year before primary) school age (%)

Adjusted net attendance rate for children of primary school age (%)

Adjusted net attendance rate for adolescents of lower secondary school age (%)

Adjusted net attendance rate for adolescents of upper secondary school age (%)

Out-of-school rates

Out-of-school rate for children of primary school age (%)

Out-of-school rate for adolescents of lower secondary school age (%)

Out-of-school rate for adolescents of upper secondary school age (%)

Completion rates

Completion rate for children of primary school age (%)

Completion rate for adolescents of lower secondary school age (%)

Completion rate for adolescents of upper secondary school age (%)

Education Outcomes: Learning

Learning outcomes

Percentage of population aged 15+ that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Percentage of population aged 15-24 that can both read and write a short, simple statement about their everyday life (%)

Barriers to Education

Child Labor

Time spent on economic activity - Percent aged 10-14 years who engaged in economic activity in the past week (%)

Time spent on unpaid household chores - Percent aged 10-14 years who engage in unpaid household chores in the past week (%)

Violence

Intimate Partner Violence - Percent of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15-19 subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months (%)

Corporal punishment - Percent aged 10-14 years who experienced any physical violence or psychological aggression by caregivers (%)

Adolescent childbearing

Percent aged 20-24 years who had a first birth before age 18 (%)

Child marriage

Percent aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 18 (%)

Percent aged 15-19 who are currently married or living in union (%)

Contextual Influences

Community-level

Control over earnings - Among currently married or in union women aged 15-49 employed in the past year and earning cash, the percent who decides how those earnings are used (%)

Cash earnings - Among women aged 15-49 employed in the past year, the percent who earned cash for their work (%)

Employment - Percent of women aged 15-49 employed in the past year (%)

Proportion of youth aged 15-24 not in education, employment or training (%)

School-level

Percentage of primary schools providing life skills-based HIV and sexuality education

Number of years of free primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks

Expenditure on education as a percentage of total government expenditure

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