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Children who participate in early childhood development achieve higher education and make more money as adults.
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If all students in low-income countries gained basic reading skills, 171 million people could escape poverty.
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The likelihood of infant mortality decreases up to 10% for every additional year of schooling a mother receives.
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A woman’s earning potential goes up 20% for every year of schooling she completes.
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Globally, 83% of children complete grade school. But 55% of youth do not finish high school.
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Of the nearly 2 billion youth in the world, one-third are not employed, not in school, and not in formal training for work.
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Students who graduate college see a 17% increase in earnings, compared with a 7% boost for high school grads.
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If a child’s mother can read, they are 50% more likely to live past the age of five, and 2x as likely to attend school.
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Over 265 million children are currently out of school — 22% of them are of primary school age.
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In 2016, 132 million girls worldwide were not in school.
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Sources
- WHO Youth Violence Research, 2009
- UNICEF The State of the World’s Children, 2009
- UNESCO, 2012
- World Bank eLibrary. “Returns on Investments in Education,” 2002
- UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, 2017
- The World Bank 2015
- The World Bank 2017
- Globalpartnership.org, Education Data Highlights
- Un.org, Education
- Results.Org, World Poverty and What you Can Do About It
- Lifewater.org, 9 Poverty Statistics that Everyone Should Know, January 28, 2020
