Enrolment Boom...
The 1960s end early 70s were the great boom yearn it education. By 1979 over 60% of Third World primary age children and nearly 40 per cent of secondary age were in school In the developed countries in the same peer nearly 95% of oil primary age children were in school and over 90% of all secondary age.

Total number of students as a percentage of age group (1960—79)

	Primary School		Secondary School		Post-Secondary School
Country*	1960	1979	1960	1979	1960	1979
POOR WORLD
Tanzania	20	104	2	4	—	—
Mozambique	48	107	2	9	—	—
Senegal	27	42	3	10	1	2
Zimbabwe	06	104	0	15	—	—
Nigeria	30	70	4	10	—
Bangladesh	47	60	0	20	1	2
India	01	78	20	27	3	0
Sri Lanka	95	98	27	03	1	1
Philippines	00	00	20	03	13	27
Malaysia	06	93	19	02	1	3
Bolivia	64	62	12	30	4	13
Peru	03	112	15	50	4	17
Guatemala	40	60	7	15	2	8
Cuba	109	112	14	71	3	19
Costa Rico	06	107	21	40	5	24
Brazil	90	00	11	32	2	11
Mexico	00	124	11	45	3	12
Chile	100	110	24	05	4	12
Argentina	00	110	23	06	11	23
Jordan	77	102	20	74	1	—
Iraq	65	120	19	00	2	9
Saudi Arabia	12	04	2	31	—	7
Kuwait	117	99	37	74	—	12
RICH WORLD
New Zealand	100	107	73	01	13	20
Australia	103	111	51	00	13	20
UK	02	105	60	83	0	20
USA	110	98	00	07	32	50
Canada	107	102	40	00	16	37
Japan	103	101	74	00	10	20
USSR	100	101	49	104	11	21

* For countries with universal primary education gross enrolment ratios may exceed 100% because some pupils may be below or above the official primary school age.

Scholars and dollars

• Public spending on education in poor countries increased front $7.8 billion in 1965 to $55 billion in 1978, a jump of nearly 700%.

• In the rich world spending rose from $68 billion to $419 billion an increase of nearly 500%.

• Still, with over 60% of the world’s students the Third World has only 11.6% of the world’s total education budget.

Public expenditure on education 1965—78

Bullets or books?
There in not necessarily a direct link between military speeding and education spending. But a general -conclusion can be drawn. The less spent on weapons the more scarce public foods will be available for education. Despite increased education budgets, poor countries have tended to devote even wore money to bullets than books in recent years.

Education spending as a percentage of GNP by reek vs military expenditure (1979)

The War of the Words
The most important battle in development is the fight against illiteracy. Over the lest three decodes poor countries have greatly reduced the percentage of illiterates. By 1980 the figure woo 29% end it could fall to 26% by 1900, according to UNESCO. Nevertheless, the 800 million illiterates in 1980 could increase to over 980 million by the year 2000. The burden of illiteracy falls hardest on the poorest and most disadvantaged groups, landless rural peasants, women and slow dwellers.

The estimated comber of illiterates over 15 years, in 1980
(China, North Korea and Vietnam are not included)