The bar charts demonstrate the portion of school-aged males and females who were engaged in secondary education or higher education in four regions of the world in 2000.
Overall, a higher percentage of the college-aged population attended secondary schools than colleges or universities. Europe was a leader in both categories of education, while Sub-Saharan Africa is a backmarker in both charts.
Attendance of the college-aged population in Europe is close to 100% in secondary education, where girls have a slight edge, while European higher education percentage is 70% for girls and 60% for boys.
Sub-Saharan Africa region showed around 30% for the boys and 20% for the girls in secondary education. In higher education Sub-Saharan Africa showed lower results: both male and female population attendance rates were lower than 10%, with male being the larger value.
Latin America and East Asia are similar in secondary education percentage: Latin America is at 60% for female population and approximately 50% for male population, however; while maintaining similar values, East Asia percentages are reversed – at around 50% for female and 60% for male. In higher education Latin America sits at 20% for male and 15% for female population. Meanwhile, the female population in East Asia attends higher education slightly less than male, whose attendance rate is at 10%.