Written question asked by Michael Moore (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 14 November 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 November 2007. It was answered by Shahid Malik (Labour) on Thursday, 22 November 2007 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Iraq: Education

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what estimate he has made of the number of children in (a) primary, (b) secondary and (c) tertiary education in Iraq in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) estimate the numbers of children in education in Iraq as follows:

	Total enrolment in primary	Total enrolment in secondary	Total enrolment in tertiary, full and part- time
2001	4,031,346	1,257,106	n/a
2002	4,135,761	¹1,294,395	¹317,993
2003	4,280,602	1,477,616	n/a
2004	4,334,609	1,706,234	412,545
2005	¹4,430,267	¹1,751,164	1424,908
2006	n/a	n/a	n/a
n/a = Not available
¹ UIS estimation

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