Table 1.

School Enrollment and Repetition Rates for Girls and Boys Aged 6-10 by Development Zone and Geographic Region
Net Enrollment Girls Net Enrollment Boys Repetition Girls Rates Boys

Eastern - Mountains Eastern - Hills Eastern - Terai Central - Mountains Central - Hills Central - Terai Western- Mountains Western - Hills Western - Terai Midwestern - Mts Midwestern - Hills Midwestern - Terai Far Western - Mts Far Western - Hills Far Western - Terai

77% 67% 49% 63% 71% 37% 60% 85% 60% 18% 34% 48% 85% 27% 50%

83% 80% 72% 76% 90% 66% 74% 93% 84% 54% 74% 70% 100% 75% 76%

32% 21% 22% 8% 36% 9% 27% 31% 35% 11% 14% 33% 21% 9% 20%

35% 19% 18% 12% 31% 9% 22% 30% 29% 15% 23% 31% 16% 15% 23%

[Maslak, 2003, p910.]

Table 2.
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

Enrollment Rates for Ages 5-9, 2004

Ages 5-9 Enrollment Rates

Boys, 61 Total, 51 Girls, 42 Total Boys Girls

Richest

Poorest

Table 3.

Net Enrollment Rates for Primary School

Table 4.
Percentage of Homes Within a 30 Minute Walking Distance From School
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Total Richest Poorest Terai East Hills and Mt.

Table 5.
Ethnicity of Heads of Household and School Enrollment / Dropout among Girls Age 6-10 % enrolled ages 6-10 93% 70% 87% 65% 68% 74% 58% 42% 45% 36% 39% Dropouts ages 6-10 by % 2 3 1 8 3 2 6 5 7 2 22

Caste Level 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 5 3 5

Ethnicity Brahmin Chheteri Newar Gurung/Ghale Magar Rai/Lhimbu Tamang/Sherpa Muslim Occupational Tharu Yadav

Other - Terai Other - Hills

45% 34%

6 3

Note: Newars are high caste, either level 1 or 2. Janajatis are indigenous people of Nepal and are in the middle castes. Dalits are the untouchable classes.

Table 6.

Indicators of Social Disparity

% Population High Caste - Hill High Caste - Terai Newar - Kathmandu Valley Janajati - Hill and Terai Dalit - Hill and Terai Dalit women Others - mostly Terai

Literacy Rate Governance Graduate Below Poverty 2001 elite and Above Line 31.1 59-74.9 66.5 62.2 34--50 15.2 14.8--82.1 15.2 11.6 40 5.5 71.2 11.2 13.6 25 30.1 13.2--75.5 7.1 8 45--71 12.8 9.4--46.9 0.3 0.7 67 3.2 5.3 34.7--93.9 0 2.9 38

Table 7 Primary School Attendance Rate According to Caste

Table 8. Secondary School Attendance Rate According to Caste

Table 9.
The EFA National Plan of Action 2001-2015, Nepal reflects the governments overall policies and priorities for basic education adopts a rights-based approach to education provides a framework for providing school education from preprimary to secondary education includes strategies for providing comprehensive school education to all, with special attention to girls and disadvantaged groups emphasizes quality of education provides for a decentralized curriculum with life-related contents, enhanced teacher qualification, promotes the use of the mother tongue, promotes the use of information technology recommends public-private partnerships

Table 10.

South Asia Statistics

Education as % of GDP 3.4 4.8 2.4 4.5 3.1 2.7 Education as % of Budget 19.5 17.2 14 8.4 10.7 11.2 Adult Literacy Prim. NER Sec. NER 30.90 % 47% 44% NA 32% 33% Children Out of School

GDP per cap PPP Nepal Bhutan Banglad esh Sri Lanka India Pakistan 1,200 5,500 1,700 5,000 3,500 2,500

56.5 52.8 53.5 94.2 74 58.2

84% 87% 86% 95% 78% 66%

16% 12% 11% 5% 3% 34%