The bar chart illustrates the proportion between girls and boys who enrolled in primary, secondary, and tertiary education in developing countries compared with developed countries in the year 1990 and 1998.
Overall, in 1998, girls had more accesses in all levels of school education compared with in 1990. Girls in developed countries recieved more opportunities in school education than those of developing countries. In developing countries, the number of girls who studied in higher education dropped when compared with primary education, while it showed the contrary trend in developed countries.
In 1990, there proportion of girls and boys who approached primary education was 83:100 and 95:100 in developing and developed countries, respectively. There was a downward trend for higher education in developing countries. The percentage of girls accessed in secondary and tertiary education were 72% and 66%, respectively. On the other hand, the girls in developed countries had more higher education.
In 1998, there were upward trends in both developing and developed countries in all levels of school education. However, the data from developed counties showed that the girls received tertiary education higher than the boys.