China2

Megan Anderson

China2

__Overview__: Overall the adult literacy rate for China is high compared to most countries in the world (93%), however, the literacy rate for females is lower than other developed countries at 90%. In addition, 57.6% of illiterate youth are female, an improvement from 2000 which had 63.3% of illiterate youth as female. Currently (2009), 99.1% of female youth are literate, and 99.4% of male youth are literate.

__Primary Education__: 93.6% of youth have access to primary education. 92.1% of boys are enrolled in school, where 95.4% of girls are enrolled in primary education.

__Secondary Education__: The gross enrollment ratio for females is 75.40 versus males 72.76. It would be interesting to look further into the reasons behind the secondary schooling population drop from 142,783,979 in 2003 to 128,391,163 in 2009.

__Tertiary__: The population for students enrolled in higher education is 56,844,232 for females and 62,573,377 for males. This is a change from primary and secondary education, where there were more females enrolled than males.

__Human and Financial Resources__: In 1999 (the most recent report of ed.expenditure) China spent 13% of their total gov't expenditure on education. In 2007, 55.5% of primary and 45.1% of secondary teachers were female.