The line graphs illustrate the proportion of young people in four countries who pursued their secondary education until the age of 18 from 1996 to 2003.
Overall, the persentage of both gender students in the UK and Norway were the highest, while Spain and Italy showed the lowest proportion of both females and males students over the period.
There was a significant increase in the percentage of both genders in Norway. The figure of females were at about 90% in 1996 and reached the peak at about 100% in 2000, remained unchanged by 2003.There was a slight rose in the number of males between 90% in 1996 and 100% in 202, but then it decreased sharply to around 90% in the final year. The proportion of the UK students in both female and male began at 65% in 1996, and increased steadily at about 85% in 2000, staying constant until 2003.
Regarding Spain , the proportion of female and male students were at about 66% and 52%, respectively in 1996. The numbers started increase males just over 60% and females at about 72% in 1998, before reaching males at 52% and females 75% in 2003. There were fluctuations in the figures for Italian females and males over the whole period between approximately 70% of males and 72% females by 2003.