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A demographic survey conducted in 1976 estimated that 81
percent of the population over six (71 percent male; 93 percent
female) had never attended school. Attendance of school-age
children declined markedly in the higher grades: primary 30
percent (51 percent male; 8.6 percent female); middle 12 percent
(21 percent male; 3.0 percent female); secondary 7 percent (12
percent male; 2 percent female). Although low, this represented
more than a two-fold increase from the mid-1960s. Since the war,
however, drop-out rates have continued to rise while school
completion rates fall, especially among females. By 1990, even
official figures record a substantial decline in primary schools:
a drop of 84 percent in the number of boys schools; a 72 percent
drop for girls. This reflected the physical destruction caused by
the war, the refugee exodus, and the scarcity of teachers, a high
proportion of whom, male and female, settled in third
countries.
Data as of 1997
