Disparities in educational provisional around the world (poverty/class)

The Education Monitoring Report

Found that 95% of 3-7 year olds were enrolled in pre-primary or primary school in Belarus compared to just 20% in Ethiopia- showing a disparity between developed and developing countries.

Filmer

Argues that ethnicity, gender and locality are factors that influences educational opportunities but he states that, globally, it is poverty by far that is the most significant factor holding students back e.g. in Somalia, the national average of students never attending school is 53% but amongst the “poorest children” in Somalia 89% have never attended school.

2020 GEM Report

In 65 low- and middle-income countries, the average gap in school attendance between the poorest 20% and the richest 20% of households was 9 percentage points at primary school age, 13 at lower secondary, and 27 at upper secondary, showing that children from poorer families are significantly less likely to attend school than wealthier peers.

UNESCO

Gaps in higher education enrolment between the richest ad the poorest within countries can reach over 60 percentage points, with some middle-income countries showing enrolment rates as low as 1% for the poorest vs over 66% for the richest, demonstrating extreme inequality by income in access to tertiary education.