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ENSURING THE KNOWLEDGE BASE

Targets

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, 1992:
'Both formal and non-formal education are indispensable to changing people's attitudes so that they have the capacity to assess and address their sustainable development issues.'

International Conference on Water and the Environment, Dublin Statement, 1992:
'Awareness raising is a vital part of a participatory approach to water resources management. Information, education and communication support programmes must be an integral part of the development process.'

Millennium Development Goals, 2000:
'Ensure that, by 2015, all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.'
'Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.'

Primary school

   - Today, 79% of the world's children aged 6 to 11 are enrolled in primary school.
   - Number of children of primary-school age who do not have access to education: 113 million.
   - 60% of these are girls.
   - 4 out of 10 primary-age children in sub-Saharan Africa do not attend school.

Regional distribution of primary-age children not enrolled 1998-2000, figure extracted from the WWDR
Regional distribution of primary-age children not enrolled 1998-2000. Global total - 114 million in 2000.

 

Gender inequality in education

Gross enrolment ratio at primary level in 1997 (male/female), figure extracted from the WWDR
Gross enrolment ratio at primary level in 1997
(male/female)		 Gross enrolment ratio at secondary level in 1997 (male/female), figure extracted from the WWDR
Gross enrolment ratio at secondary level in 1997
(male/female)
Gross enrolment ratio at tertiary level in 1997 (male/female), figure extracted from the WWDR
Gross enrolment ratio at tertiary level in 1997
(male/female)
[Figure source]: UNICEF, 2002. The State of the world's Children 2002.

Illiteracy

Estimated illiteracy rate in 2000 (male and female, age 15) in percentage, figure extracted from the WWDR
Estimated illiteracy rate in 2000 (male and female, age 15) in percentage.
[Figure source]: UNICEF, 2002. The State of the world's Children 2002.

 

ICT statistics

Circulation of daily newspapers in 1997 per 1,000 inhabitants:
   - Developed countries: 230 copies
   - Rest of the world: 33 copies

Television receivers in 1997 per 1,000 inhabitants:
   - Least developed countries: 23
   - Developed countries: 548

Number of Internet connections per 1,000 inhabitants, figure extracted from the WWDR
Number of Internet connections per 1,000 inhabitants.
[Figure source]: International Telecommunication Union website

Institutes offering water-related courses

World distribution of the 3,873 institutes offering higher education courses on water-related subjects, figure extracted from the WWDR

World distribution of the 3,873 institutes offering higher education courses on water-related subjects
[Figure source]: International Association of Universities (IAU). 2002.World Higher Education Database 2001/2

 

 

What is...?
ICT : stands for 'information and communication technology'. It refers to the integrated set of technologies at our disposal for gathering, processing, understanding and communicating information and knowledge. ICT encompasses computer and telecommunication techniques.

Most of this information draws on statistics from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESC0).

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