05/24/2013
Approximately 59,000 books are published each year in Italy. There are 26 million readers in the country who buy 1.9 million books, newspapers, magazines or e-books on the Internet.
Provided by Italian National Institute of Statistics

05/23/2013
Skyfall was the undisputed king of the world box office in 2012 with 44 million admissions throughout the European Union and 36 million in North America. It is the highest-grossing Bond installment ever. It was followed at a distance by American blockbusters such as Ice Age: Continental Drift, The Dark Night Rises and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. This confirms the trends of franchise success, with 10 films within the box office top 25 being sequels.
Provided by The European Audiovisual Observatory

05/22/2013
In 2012, attendance for European Union films grew by 12% year on year, amounting to around 313 million admissions, boosted by Skyfall, the latest installment of the James Bond franchise.
Provided by The European Audiovisual Observatory

05/21/2013
The overall Wholesale Price Index (WPI) in Palestine in the first quarter 2013 decrease by 0.01% compared to the fourth quarter 2012.
Provided by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

05/20/2013
In Mauritius as of March 2012, there were 312 primary schools with 113,634 pupils (51% boys, 49% girls). Total staff comprised 8,044 persons with 4,083 General Purpose Teachers and 1,344 oriental language teachers.
Provided by Statistics Mauritius

05/19/2013
Each year since 1980 more boys than girls have been born in China.
Provided by Statista

05/18/2013
More than 2,000 nuclear tests have taken place worldwide since 1945.
Provided by Statista

05/17/2013
Almost half of the US population uses Facebook.
Provided by Statista

05/16/2013
There were 80 shark attacks worldwide in 2012.
Provided by Statista

05/15/2013
India’s population continues to grow, increasing in the last 10 years from 1,076 billion to 1,239 billion people.
Provided by Statista

05/14/2013
The Abu Dhabi Emirate’s daily average production of crude oil increased from 2.3 million barrels per day in 2010 to 2.5 million barrels per day in 2011, or by 10.7%.
Provided by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi

05/13/2013
Only 30% of women in Asia and the Pacific region are in a non-agriculture wage employment sector.
Provided by Asian Development Bank

05/12/2013
The CreditDonkey.com survey shows that More sons want to give dinner (33% of sons compared to 25% of daughter respondents), while 35% of moms want to receive dinner on this Mother’s Day.
Provided by CreditDonkey.com

05/11/2013
A survey by CreditDonkey.com found that moms want to receive something homemade (36%). However, less than 1 in 5 survey respondents plan to make something for their mom.
Provided by CreditDonkey.com

05/10/2013
A new survey by CreditDonkey.com reveals that nearly 1 in 4 son respondents plan to spend more this year on Mother's Day, while nearly 1 in 4 daughter respondents plan to spend less than they did last year.
Provided by CreditDonkey.com

05/09/2013
In 2012, trips with overnight stays made by residents in Italy were 78,703,000, corresponding to 501,059,000 nights. Compared to 2011, there was a 5.7% decrease in the number of trips, while nights spent travelling remain stable. France is the most visited European country (14.3% of abroad trips) with Spain (13.4%) and the United Kingdom (8%) next.
Provided by Italian National Institute of Statistics

05/08/2013
Until 2025, the number of households in the Netherlands will grow by 630,000 to 8.2 million. The annual increase by 50,000 is just below the level over the past 12 years. The number of households will continue to grow after 2025 to 8.6 million in 2060.
Provided by Statistics Netherlands

05/07/2013
In Spain, overnight stays in non-hotel tourist accommodations (holiday dwellings, campsites and rural tourism accommodation) exceeded 6.4 million in March, 19.9% more than in the same month of 2012.
Provided by National Statistics Institute

05/06/2013
The volume of sales for restaurants in February of this year showed an increase of 1.5 percent compared to the same period last year. The volume of sales for cafes was strong as well, increasing by 6.8 percent.
Provided by Statistics Sweden

05/05/2013
The annual Headline Inflation rate for the year ending April 2013 decreased to 3.4% from the 4.0% registered for the year ended March 2013.
Provided by Uganda Bureau of Statistics

05/04/2013
The number of live births in Turkey in 2012 was 1,279,864, an increase of 38,452 over the previous year. Slightly more than half (51%) of the babies born were males while 49% were females.
Provided by Turkish Statistical Institute

05/03/2013
In Bulgaria, 50.9% of households, or 1,393,681 famiies, have Internet access at their residence.
Provided by National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria

05/02/2013
The number of children born in the Belarus in the period January to March of this year was 28,051, which is 1,024 children more than the same period last year, while the number of deaths was 33,617, or 840 more year on year. The overall decrease in population was 5,566 persons.
Provided by National Statistical Committee of the Republic of Belarus

05/01/2013
In Italy, life expectancy at birth is 79.4 years for men and 84.4 years for women. In one year, men's life expectancy increased by 0.4 years, while for women the growth was 0.3 years.
Provided by Italian National Institute of Statistics

04/30/2013
Worldwide there were 5 billion mobile phones in use in 2010.
Provided by McKinsey Global Institute

04/29/2013
It is estimated that 1.5 million more data-savvy managers are needed to take full advantage of Big Data in the United States.
Provided by McKinsey Global Institute

04/28/2013
A total of 235 terabytes of data had been collected by the U.S. Library of Congress by April 2011.
Provided by McKinsey Global Institute

04/27/2013
It would cost $600 to buy a disk drive that can store all of the world’s music.
Provided by McKinsey Global Institute

04/26/2013
The total population of Wales on census day (March 27, 2011) was 3.1 million—an increase of 153,000 (5%) in the past 10 years, from 2.9 million in 2001. This increase is the largest seen in any census period since 1951.
Provided by United Kingdom Office of National Statistics

04/25/2013
A recent survey shows a clear interrelation between level of education achieved and participation in adult learning in Austria. Whereas 68.9% of people with university degree (or similar education) attend further education activities, only 23.5% of individuals with compulsory schooling as highest level of formal education participate in adult education.
Provided by Statistics Austria

04/24/2013
The Abu Dhabi inflation rate was 1.1 % in 2012.
Provided by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi

04/23/2013
In 2012, 92.4% of Italian households owned a mobile phone, 59.3% had a personal computer, 55.5% had access to the Internet and 48.6% had broadband access to the web.
Provided by Italian National Institute of Statistics

04/22/2013
Most of the world’s email traffic comes from the corporate world. In 2012, the number of businesses emails sent and received per day total 89 billion. This figure is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 13% over the next four years, reaching over 143 billion by year-end 2016.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/21/2013
The mobile email market has continued to expand over the last year. The number of people that use a mobile device for both personal and professional purposes has led to a significant increase in the number of mobile email users around the world. In 2012, worldwide mobile email users total 730 million. Currently, only 34% of email users access their email via a mobile device.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/20/2013
Social networking sites have shown explosive growth in the last couple of years. In 2012, the total number of worldwide social networking accounts is more than 2.7 billion. This figure is expected to grow to more than 4.3 billion by year-end 2016.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/19/2013
Instant Messaging (IM) is continuing to grow in popularity with both consumers and corporate users. In 2012, the number of worldwide IM accounts will total more than 2.7 billion. This figure is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 6% over the next four years, and reach 3.4 billion by year-end 2016.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/18/2013
In 2015 it would take you five years to view all the video crossing IP networks each second.
Provided by Intel

04/17/2013
By 2015 the number of networked devices will be double the global population.
Provided by Intel

04/16/2013
In an Internet minute there are 6 million Facebook views, 2+ million search queries in Google, 1.3 million video views and 100K new tweets on Twitter.
Provided by Intel

04/15/2013
Women who died in Slovenia in 2011 were on average 79.7 years old; men who died in the same year were on average 71.2 years old.
Provided by Statistical Office of The Republic of Slovenia

04/14/2013
30 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook every month
Provided by McKinsey Global Institute

04/13/2013
Early leavers from education and training--people aged 18 to 24 who have attained at most lower secondary education and are not involved in further education or training--constitute only 5.6% of people of that age group.
Provided by Central Statistical Office of Poland

04/12/2013
Women owned 7.8 million nonfarm U.S. businesses in 2007.
Provided by U.S. Census Bureau

04/11/2013
Small and medium enterprises account for an estimated 90% of all businesses and 60% of the workforce in Asia.
Provided by Asian Development Bank

04/10/2013
The bilingualism rate of the Canadian population edged up from 17.4% in 2006 to 17.5% in 2011.
Provided by Statistics Canada

04/09/2013
Over the next four years, the amount of spam received is expected to remain at roughly 15% of email received.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/08/2013
Worldwide, the range of money spent on health is extreme: health expenditure from all sources—public, private and external—ranged from US$11 per person per year in Eritrea to US$8262 per person in Luxembourg. Average per capita expenditures varied substantially from US$25 in low-income countries to US$4692 in high-income countries.
Provided by World Health Organization

04/07/2013
Raised blood pressure is a high-risk condition that causes approximately 51% of deaths from stroke and 45% from coronary disease. It is considered directly responsible for 7.5 million deaths in 2004—about 12.8% of the total of all global deaths.
Provided by World Health Organization

04/06/2013
Between 1980 and 2008, the worldwide prevalence of obesity (body mass index >30kg m2) almost doubled. By 2008, 10% of men and 14% of women—half a billion people—in the world w3re obese, compared with 5% of men and 8% of women in 1980.
Provided by World Health Organization

04/05/2013
One in three adults worldwide has high blood pressure. The proportion increases with age, from 1 in 10 people in their 20s and 30s to 5 in 10 people in their 50s. Prevalence of high blood pressure is highest in some low-income countries in Africa, with over 40% of adults in many African countries thought to be affected.
Provided by World Health Organization

04/04/2013
Consumer email accounts, which are freely available from large portals and ISPs, make up the majority of worldwide email accounts. In 2012, consumer email accounts represent 75% of worldwide mailboxes, while corporate (i.e., business) email accounts represent 25% of worldwide mailboxes.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/03/2013
Nearly half of worldwide email users are in the Asia Pacific region, which is the most populous region in the world and is home to China and India--two of the largest Internet populations. Europe accounts for about 22% of worldwide email users, while North America has about 14% of worldwide email users. The rest of world accounts for the remaining 14%.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/02/2013
The total number of worldwide email accounts is expected to increase from 3.3 billion accounts in 2012 to over 4.3 billion accounts by year-end 2016. This represents an average annual growth rate of 6% over the next four years.
Provided by The Radicati Group, Inc.

04/01/2013
Of Iran's more than 77 million people, 4,297,000 are age 65 or older.
Provided by Statistical Centre of Iran

03/31/2013
In 2011, there were 377,816 marriages in Germany—243,290 were first marriages for both the bride and groom while 61,786 were second marriages for both.
Provided by Federal Statistical Office

03/30/2013
The most popular female name in Croatia is Marija; 158,595 women and girls have that name. Meanwhile, the most popular male name is Ivan (147,568).
Provided by Croatian Bureau of Statistics

03/29/2013
The population of Denmark as of the beginning of 2013 was estimated at 5,602,628. It’s population is expected to reach 6,158,634 by 2050.
Provided by Statistics Denmark

03/28/2013
In Hong Kong last year, total port cargo throughput decreased by 3% compared with a year earlier to 269.3 million tons. Within this total, inward and outward port cargo dropped by 2% and 4% to 154.7 million tons and 114.6 million tons, respectively.
Provided by Census and Statistics Department

03/27/2013
About 1.9 million Canadians, or just over 7% of the population aged 20 and over, said that they were in a couple relationship with someone in 2011, but lived at separate addresses.
Provided by Statistics Canada

03/26/2013
In Australia during the period 2011-12, more than half (55.6%) of all people aged 15 years and over considered themselves to be in very good or excellent health, while 4.0% rated their health as poor.
Provided by Australian Bureau of Statistics

03/25/2013
In Switzerland, real turnover in the retail sector adjusted for sales days and holidays rose by 1.9% in January 2013 compared with January 2012 (in nominal terms +0.3%).
Provided by Swiss Federal Statistical Office

03/24/2013
In Norway, the proportion of daily smokers among 16-24 year-olds continues to decrease, and in 2012 the figure was just 7%. In the adult population, 16% smoked on a daily basis.
Provided by Statistics Norway

03/23/2013
In January, the number of property transfers in Spain was 154,760 or 2.0% more than in the same month of the previous year
Provided by Instituto Nacional de Estadistica

03/22/2013
Real estate prices for one- or two-dwelling buildings increased by 3 percent on an annual basis during the last three month period December 2012 – February 2013, compared to the same period last year.
Provided by Statistics Sweden

03/21/2013
The average size of private households in Portugal is 2.6 persons.
Provided by Statistics Portugal

03/20/2013
The total population of the Philippines as of May 1, 2010 was 92,337,852 based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing. This count represented an increase of nearly 16 million people over the 2000 census.
Provided by National Statistics Office

03/19/2013
Net long-term migration to the United Kingdom was 163,000 in the year to June 2012, significantly lower than the 247,000 estimated in the year to June 2011.
Provided by Office for National Statistics

03/18/2013
In South Korea, the number of live births was 41,900 persons in October 2012, which grew by 3,500 persons (9.1 percent) year-on-year.
Provided by Statistics Korea

03/17/2013
The CPI during January 2013 increased by 2.36% compared with January 2012 (3.65% in the West Bank, 2.59% in Jerusalem J1*, 0.87% in Gaza Strip).
Provided by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

03/16/2013
In Estonia, 2012 the gross domestic product (GDP) for 2012 increased by 3.2% compared to the previous year. In the 4th quarter of 2012 compared to the same quarter of 2011, the GDP grew by 3.7%.
Provided by Statistics Estonia

03/15/2013
In Austria a total of 25,192 new motor vehicles was registered last month; 11.6% less than in February 2012 and 20.7% less than in January 2013.
Provided by Statistics Austria

03/14/2013
The number of children (ages 0-15 years) in Northern Ireland has fallen by 18,700 (5%), from 398,100 in 2001 to 379,300 in 2011.
Provided by Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

03/13/2013
In New Zealand everyone is entitled to an education—primary and secondary education is free and loans are given to university students. In 2011, 48.1% of university students took out an education loan and 22.6% received an allowance from the government.
Provided by Datamine Limited

03/12/2013
Six out of every 10 females aged 15 years and above in Palestine were married, while three women out of 10 were never married.
Provided by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

03/11/2013
Net aid disbursements from developed countries amounted to $128.7 billion in 2010 – the highest level of real aid ever recorded.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/10/2013
During the National Assembly election in 2011, almost a third of the seats--29 of 90--were won by women, which is the highest number in independent Slovenia.
Provided by Statistical Office of The Republic of Slovenia

03/09/2013
The estimated population of Palestine at the end of 2012 was 4.35 million of whom 2.21 million were males and 2.14 million were females. Males comprise 50.8 percent of the total population compared to 49.2 percent for females.
Provided by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

03/08/2013
As women continue to enter the workforce in larger numbers, they will have more money of their own to spend. Already, women control roughly US$20 trillion of total consumer spending globally and that number is predicted to rise to US$28 trillion by 2014.
Provided by The Female Economy, Harvard Business Review

03/07/2013
10,740 US$ is the world gross national income (GNI) per capita (purchasing power parity) in 2010
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/06/2013
By the end of 2010, fixed broadband penetration in the developing world averaged 4.4 per cent, compared to 24.6 per cent in developed regions.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/05/2013
264333 square kilometers of marine areas are protected in Australia, representing the highest global level followed by the United States and Russia.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/04/2013
The literacy rate of youth aged 15-24 increased to 89 per cent in 2009, up from 83 per cent in 1990.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/03/2013
Every country in Latin America, with the exception of Belize and Guatemala, has a literacy rate superior to 90 percent.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/02/2013
19.2 percent is the highest GDP per capita average annual growth rate in the world for the 1990-2010 period. It can be attributed to Equatorial Guinea; the second highest goes to China, with 9.2 percent.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

03/01/2013
6 billion mobile cellular subscriptions were recorded by the end of 2011
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

02/28/2013
19.7 percent of parliamentarians worldwide were women by the end of January 2012.
Provided by Millennium Development Goals (DevInfo)

02/27/2013
Asia holds 20% of the world’s biodiversity, 14% of the world’s tropical forests, and 34% of global coral resources.
Provided by Asian Development Bank

02/26/2013
New Zealand’s population as of June 2012 is estimated at 4,433,000 people. The country's population is expected to approach 5 million—4,840,000—by 2022.
Provided by Statistics New Zealand

02/25/2013
The leading cause of death on St. Helena Island is heart disease, comprising 19% of resident deaths during the period 2002 to 2012.
Provided by St. Helena Statistics Office

02/24/2013
The number of births in the Abu Dhabi Emirate in 2011 was 32,084, comprising 16,318 males and 15,766 females.
Provided by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi

02/23/2013
Sixty years ago, Asia was the world's poorest region but it now accounts for a third of the world's GDP.
Provided by Asian Development Bank

02/22/2013
Women owned 7.8 million nonfarm U.S. businesses in 2007, an increase of 20.1 percent from 2002.
Provided by U.S. Census Bureau

02/21/2013
Every person in Cyprus consumes 58 kg of bread, 88 litres of milk and 57 litres of beer a year.
Provided by Cyprus Statistical Services

02/20/2013
Of the total Abu Dhabi Emirate population, more than 70% are males, due to an influx of male migrant workers.
Provided by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi

02/19/2013
The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States totaled 2.3 million in 2007, up 43.6 percent from 2002.
Provided by U.S. Census Bureau

02/18/2013
In 2011, the population in Abu Dhabi was estimated to be 2,120,700 people, indicating that from December 1975 to June 2011 the population of the Emirate increased about 10 times in 36 years.
Provided by Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi

02/17/2013
The resident population of St. Helena Island as established by the February 2008 census was 4,077. In November 2012, the estimated resident population was 4,215.
Provided by St. Helena Statistics Office

02/16/2013
Between 2006 and 2011, the number of persons who reported being able to conduct a conversation in both of Canada’s official languages increased by nearly 350,000 to 5.8 million. (Source: Statistics Canada)
Provided by MPK Analytics

02/15/2013
Nearly 1.73 billion poor people in Asia and the Pacific are living on less than $2 a day.
Provided by Asian Development Bank

02/14/2013
A U.S. survey shows that 53% of women would call it off with their man if he doesn’t put in the romantic effort on Valentine’s Day.
Provided by Tesselaar Flowers

02/13/2013
New Zealand has a population of 4.4 million people but more than 32 million sheep!
Provided by Datamine Limited

02/12/2013
Industrial production activity accounted for 12.60% of total gross domestic product in the Palestinian region in 2011.
Provided by Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

02/11/2013
In the European Union, 1.8% of GDP was spent on R&D in 2007, the same proportion as in 2002, which is far below the Lisbon target of 3.0% for 2010.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/10/2013
In Africa, only 0.4% of GDP is spent on R&D, far below the African Union target of 1.0%.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/09/2013
The number of researchers in Asia rose from 2 million to 3 million in just five years (2002–2007).
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/08/2013
40.9% of the world’s researchers were based in Asia in 2007, which greatly exceeded the share of Europe (29.5%) and the Americas (25.4%).
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/07/2013
Asia has surpassed Europe in terms of its share of global R&D expenditure, which rose from 27.1% to 32.2% between 2002 and 2007.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/06/2013
Only 2.2% of the world’s researchers were based in Africa in 2007, which accounted for only 0.9% of global R&D expenditure that year.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/05/2013
Developing countries spent about Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)$100 per researcher in 2007, which is about one-half the amount spent in developed countries (PPP$195.0).
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/04/2013
R&D expenditure per capita in developing countries stood at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)$50.0 in 2007, compared to PPP$712.8 in developed countries.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/03/2013
R&D expenditure per capita almost doubled between 2002 and 2007 in developing countries, from Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) $27.1 to PPP$50.0.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/02/2013
In Africa, an estimated 34% of researchers are women.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

02/01/2013
Women’s participation in research in the Community of Independent States was much higher—43%—than the world average of 30%.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/31/2013
One-third of researchers in Europe are women.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/30/2013
In Asia, women constituted only 19% of researchers, far below the world average of 30%.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/29/2013
In Latin America and the Caribbean, 45% of researchers are women, exceeding the world average of 30%.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/28/2013
About 20% of countries have achieved gender parity in their respective distributions of researchers.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/27/2013
Three out of 10 researchers worldwide are women.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/26/2013
Less-developed countries spent about 0.2% of GDP on R&D, which is the same percentage reported in 2002.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/25/2013
In 2007, the world spent about 1.7% of global GDP on R&D.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/24/2013
In 2007, the world spent about Purchasing Power Parity $1,146 billion on R&D.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/23/2013
China accounted for 37.6% of R&D expenditure and 52.1% of researchers in developing countries in 2007.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/22/2013
In China, R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP rose from 1.1% in 2002 to 1.5% in 2008.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/21/2013
In developing countries, R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP rose from 0.8% in 2002 to 1.0% in 2007.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/20/2013
Developing countries accounted for 23.8% of total gross domestic expenditure on R&D in 2007, an increase from 17.4% of the global share seen in 2002.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/19/2013
Between 2002 and 2007, developing countries increased their global share of researchers by 7.5%, from 30.3% to 37.9% of the world total.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/18/2013
In developing countries, there were 502 researchers per million inhabitants in 2007, compared with 3,656 researchers per million inhabitants in developed countries.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/17/2013
The number of researchers in developed countries increased by 8.6% between 2002 and 2007, from 4.0 to 4.5 million.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/16/2013
The number of researchers in developing countries jumped from 1.8 million to 2.7 million and 348 to 502 researchers per million inhabitants, a 44.3% increase, between 2002 and 2007.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/15/2013
There were 7.2 million researchers worldwide in 2007, up from 5.8 million in 2002.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/14/2013
In countries in which enrollment is expanding, 2 million new teaching positions will need to be created to meet the goal of Universal Primary Education (UPE) by 2015.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/13/2013
In 2010, 135 million children started primary school around the world.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/12/2013
While the global pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) has been declining in almost all regions, the primary PTR increased from 37:1 in 1990 to 43:1 in 2010 in sub-Saharan Africa. In South and West Asia, it has held steady at 39:1 since 1991.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/11/2013
In 90 out of 113 countries with data, boys are more likely to repeat primary grades than girls.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/10/2013
In most countries, the provision of universal access to primary education generally leads to gender parity in the classroom.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/09/2013
Only one country out of three has reached parity in both primary and secondary education.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/08/2013
To achieve universal primary education, an average of 306,000 teachers should be hired in sub-Saharan Africa every year until 2015.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/07/2013
The greatest need for primary teachers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where almost 1 million are needed in addition to the current primary teaching force of 2.8 million to achieve universal primary education by 2015.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/06/2013
At the primary level, the proportion of female teachers is highest (80% or more) in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and North America and Western Europe, according to the 2010 Global Education Digest. In contrast, women account for less than 50% of primary teachers in South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/05/2013
In 2010, there were 97 girls for every 100 boys enrolled in both primary and secondary school. In 1999, the ratios were 92:100 and 91:100 for the two levels of education, respectively.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/04/2013
In two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa countries with recent data, more than 30% of primary-school students drop out before reaching the final grade.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/03/2013
Primary enrollment in sub-Saharan Africa increased from 61% to 76% between 2000 and 2010.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/02/2013
Boys are at least 10% more likely to start primary education than girls in Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Yemen.
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics

01/01/2013
Children in sub-Saharan Africa are, on average, enrolled in school for 9.1 years, more than twice the duration reported in 1970, but just over one-half as much as children in North America and Western Europe (16.5 years).
Provided by UNESCO Institute for Statistics