The document summarizes education statistics from Pakistan in 2014, noting that: - Pakistan's budget allocation to education has decreased in recent years despite stated intentions to increase it. Expenditures on education also decreased from 2010 to 2012. Improving tax collection could help increase education funding. - Female education rates are low, with 62% of females aged 7-16 not attending school. Enrollment drops significantly from grades 1 to 10. - Over 5 million primary-aged and 6.4 million secondary-aged children are out of school in Pakistan. - Pakistan has one of the highest rates of illiterate adults in the world and ranks poorly for female education.

1. The Pakistan Education statistics 2014 depicted below have been collected from various sources and
recently published reports;Education for All: Global Monitoring Report 2013/14, Pakistan Education
Statistics Report 2011-12, Pakistan Education Atlas 2013, Global Corruption Report 2013, Education
Under Attack 2014 and UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Grey Areas:
Female Education
Pakistan's allocation to Education as % of GDP
2.29%
1.8% 1.9%
As visible, Pakistan's budget allocation
to education has been constantly
decreasing over past few years despite
of government's avowed intents.
Pakistan's % of expenditures on
education has also decreased from
10.9% in 2010 to 9.89% in 2012.
By improving and strengthening the tax
collection system Pakistan can, not
only, improve it's allocation to education
but also improve its progress towards
meeting national education goals.
Prior 2012 2013
In Pakistan, tax revenue is just 10% of GDP
& education receives only around 10% of
government expenditure. By increasing tax
revenue to 14% and allocating one-fifth of
this to education, it could raise sufficient
funds to get all of Pakistan’s children and
adolescents into school.
Women believing they have a say in making
decision of their family size
No EducationPrimary EducationSecondary Education
5.4 million children of primary school age
6.4 million adolescents of secondary school age
Out of School
Pakistan is one of the ten countries that account for 72% of the
global illiterate adults; Pakistan is at number 3 with 50 m adults
out of schools after India and China respectively.
Pakistan, home to 10% of the world’s out-of-school childrenOnly 0.57% of Pakistanis paid income tax in 2012
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Pakistan rank 7th in the bottom ten countries for female education with
62% of the females; age 7-16, not having to attend even a day in school.
% drop in female enrollment
from grade 1 to 10,
year 2002-12.
Independent estimates (comparison of last three years available data)
In the year 2013 government allocated
504 billion to education
which is relatively higher than previous year.
:
is the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level
which is on a relatively higher side.
of the primary
schools consist of
one room.
43%of the Pakistanis see the education system as corrupt or highly corrupt.
thousand, a rough estimate, of ghosts schools in pakistan
Prepared by: Usman A. Qureshi, Education Office, USAID/Pakistan- April, 2014
380outofevery1,000Pakistaniofage15orabove
haveneverhadanyformalschooling.
2009-2012,
838 schools were attacked in Pakistan,
more than any other country in the world.