Band 6+: The first chart below shows the percentage of school-aged girls and boys who were at secondary school in four regions of 2000. The second chart shows the percentages of college-aged men and women in higher education in the same year.

The charts compare the proportion of school-aged males and females participating in

secondary school and higher education in four distinct regions worldwide in the 2000.

Overall, it is noticeable that European students made up the highest figure attending in both secondary school and higher education.Contrastly, sub-Saharan African pupils accounted for the lowest proportion.

Looking at the first chart, there was a noticeable difference in the proportion of school students in Europe compared to those in Sub-Saharan Africa.The former had nearly 100% proportion for both male and female students, while the latter was approximately five times lower. Meanwhile, the percentage of secondary students attending the same education level in Latin America and East Asia recorded roughly the same figure, at about 55%-60%.

Regarding higher education, the rate in Europe and sub-saharan Africa followed the same contrasting trend in secondary education. For the other three regions, the number of students attending colleges and universities was below the average, not exceeding 20%. Concerning genders, boys were more likely to pursue higher education than girls, except for european students.