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			Education Outcomes: Enrolment & Attainment outcomes			Barriers to Education
			Out-of-school rates			Child marriage
			Out-of-school rate for adolescents of lower secondary school age (%)			Percent aged 15-19 who are currently married or living in union (%)
Country	Region	Income level	Female	Male	Gap	Female	Male	Gap
Cambodia	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	24.90	25.50	0.70	11.20	1.80	9.40
China	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	3.20	3.40	0.20	1.10	0.30	0.80
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	East Asia & Pacific	Low income	0.30	-	-0.30	-	-	-
Fiji	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	-	-	-	3.90	0.40	3.50
Indonesia	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	4.30	6.70	2.40	9.30	-	-
Kiribati	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	5.30	14.80	9.50	10.70	5.10	5.60
Lao People's Democratic Republic	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	22.30	17.90	-4.40	23.50	5.90	17.60
Malaysia	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	-	-	-	6.00	5.10	-0.90
Marshall Islands	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	-	-	-	-	-	-
Micronesia, Federated States of	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mongolia	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	3.30	5.30	2.00	3.90	1.10	2.80
Myanmar	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	17.40	15.50	-1.90	12.60	5.00	7.60
Palau	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	-	-	-	-	-	-
Papua New Guinea	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	-	-	-	13.70	1.40	12.30
Philippines	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	3.20	5.30	2.20	8.50	-	-
Samoa	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	3.50	6.60	3.10	7.80	2.10	5.70
Solomon Islands	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	-	-	-	11.40	1.70	9.70
Thailand	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	1.60	5.10	3.50	9.60	4.20	5.40
Timor-Leste	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	7.80	9.60	1.70	8.20	0.70	7.50
Tonga	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	7.80	13.80	6.00	3.40	1.80	1.70
Tuvalu	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income	17.30	26.10	8.80	9.30	2.90	6.40
Vanuatu	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	-	-	-	11.40	3.50	7.90
Viet Nam	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income	5.90	6.20	0.30	7.40	1.40	6.00

Cambodia

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
24.90	25.50	0.70

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

Female	Male	Gap
11.20	1.80	9.40

China

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.20	3.40	0.20

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

Female	Male	Gap
1.10	0.30	0.80

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Low income

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

Female	Male	Gap
0.30	-	-0.30

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

Fiji

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.90	0.40	3.50

Indonesia

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
4.30	6.70	2.40

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

Female	Male	Gap
9.30	-	-

Kiribati

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
5.30	14.80	9.50

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

Female	Male	Gap
10.70	5.10	5.60

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
22.30	17.90	-4.40

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

Female	Male	Gap
23.50	5.90	17.60

Malaysia

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
6.00	5.10	-0.90

Marshall Islands

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

Micronesia, Federated States of

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

Mongolia

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.30	5.30	2.00

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.90	1.10	2.80

Myanmar

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
17.40	15.50	-1.90

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

Female	Male	Gap
12.60	5.00	7.60

Palau

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

Papua New Guinea

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
13.70	1.40	12.30

Philippines

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.20	5.30	2.20

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

Female	Male	Gap
8.50	-	-

Samoa

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.50	6.60	3.10

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

Female	Male	Gap
7.80	2.10	5.70

Solomon Islands

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
11.40	1.70	9.70

Thailand

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
1.60	5.10	3.50

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

Female	Male	Gap
9.60	4.20	5.40

Timor-Leste

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
7.80	9.60	1.70

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

Female	Male	Gap
8.20	0.70	7.50

Tonga

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
7.80	13.80	6.00

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

Female	Male	Gap
3.40	1.80	1.70

Tuvalu

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
17.30	26.10	8.80

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

Female	Male	Gap
9.30	2.90	6.40

Vanuatu

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
-	-	-

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

Female	Male	Gap
11.40	3.50	7.90

Viet Nam

Region	Income Level
East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income

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

Female	Male	Gap
5.90	6.20	0.30

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

Female	Male	Gap
7.40	1.40	6.00

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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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Cambodia

China

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Fiji

Indonesia

Kiribati

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Malaysia

Marshall Islands

Micronesia, Federated States of

Mongolia

Myanmar

Palau

Papua New Guinea

Philippines

Samoa

Solomon Islands

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Tonga

Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Viet Nam

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