Investing in Girls' Education Delivers Results

INVESTING in GIRLS' EDUCATION DELIVERS RESULTS WHEN WE fail TO INVEST IN GIRLS' EDUCATION MILLIONS OF GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE LOCKED OUT OF OPPORTUNITIES GLOBALLY MORE THAN HALF ARE in 2011 57 MILLION ..... ... CHILDREN GIRLS SCHOOL ARE NOT IN PRIMARY SCHOOL THERE ARE 775 MILLION ILLITERATE ADULTS 11 2 of 3 SOME COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE LOSE 2 ARE WOMEN MORE THAN $1 BILLION PER YEAR BY FAILING TO EDUCATE GIRLS TO THE SAME LEVEL AS BOYS WHEN WE successfully |NVEST IN GIRLS' EDUCATION A CHILD WHOSE MOTHER CAN READ IS 50% WOMEN'S EDUCATION LIFE HAS PREVENTED EXPECTANCY MORE LIKELY 4 MILLION TO LIVE PAST INCREASES AGE 5 CHILD DEATHS IN THE PAST 40 YEARS 4 ONE ADDITIONAL SCHOOL YEAR CAN INCREASE A WOMAN'S WOMEN EARN MORE SCHOOL EARNINGS BY 10% TO 20% INVESTING IN GIRLS' EDUCATION COULD BOOST AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA BY ECONOMIES 25% INCREASE IN 1% WOMEN WITH A PROSPER SECONDARY EDUCATION RAISES A NATION'S ANNUAL PER CAPITA ECONOMIC GROWTH BY 0.3% Investments in Girls = Results GIRLS COMPLETING PRIMARY SCHOOL IN GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION COUNTRIES A 55% 21 A 70% GPE 2002 DEVELOPING PARTNER COUNTRIES had as many girls as boys completing primary school in 2011.9 2012 SOURCES 1. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2011 data GLOBAL 2. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2012 PARTNERSHIP 3. Plan International, Paying the price. The economic cost of failing to educate girls, 2008 for EDUCATION 4. UNGEI Engendering Empowerment Report, 2012 globalpartnership.org 5. UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report Education Counts brochure, 2011 6. IFPRI Women Still Key to Food and Nutrition Security Paper, 2005 (pg 2) 7. World Bank, Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls Paper, 2011 (pg 3) 8. Global Partnership for Education calculations, 2013 9. UNESCO Institute for Statistics