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    1) Compulsory education in Myanmar includes ages 5-9. Enrollments at all levels appear to be growing slowly. 2) Girls' enrollments in primary education grew incrementally over the last 10 years but secondary data is too dated to determine current gender trends. 3) Myanmar spent 1.3% of its GDP and 18.1% of government expenditure on education in 2005, with 27% for secondary and 26.4% for tertiary education. Repetition rates were low at 0.55% in 2004.

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    1) Compulsory education in Myanmar includes ages 5-9. Enrollments at all levels appear to be growing slowly. 2) Girls' enrollments in primary education grew incrementally over the last 10 years but secondary data is too dated to determine current gender trends. 3) Myanmar spent 1.3% of its GDP and 18.1% of government expenditure on education in 2005, with 27% for secondary and 26.4% for tertiary education. Repetition rates were low at 0.55% in 2004.

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    Education Sector Profile - Myanmar

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    1) Compulsory education in Myanmar includes ages 5-9. Enrollments at all levels appear to be growing slowly. 2) Girls' enrollments in primary education grew incrementally over the last 10 years but secondary data is too dated to determine current gender trends. 3) Myanmar spent 1.3% of its GDP and 18.1% of government expenditure on education in 2005, with 27% for secondary and 26.4% for tertiary education. Repetition rates were low at 0.55% in 2004.

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    AME EDUCATION SECTOR PROFILE

    Myanmar

    Myanmar
    Education Structure

    Education System Structure and Enrollments

    Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Myanmar Department of Education 2005

    Myanmar
    Education Structure Compulsory education in Myanmar includes ages 5-9.
    Level/Grade Ages

    Education Configuration and Enrollment Percentages

    Classification

    NER

    GER

    Pre-primary

    Pre-school Primary, grades 1-4

    3-5 6-9
    10-13 14-15 16-17 16-20 20+
    1 2006

    N/A

    N/A

    82%1 113%2
    N/A 32%3 N/A N/A N/A N/A 7%4

    Pre-university Lower Secondary, grades 5-8 Upper secondary, grades 9-10

    Tertiary

    Regional college Degree study Advanced Degree

    data. .2 2005 data. 3 1995 data. 4 1998 data.

    Source: World Development Indicators. UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    Myanmar
    Education Access: Pre-university Enrollments at all levels appear to be growing slowly.
    Pre-university Gross Student Numbers
    6,000,000 5,000,000 Numbers of Students 4,000,000 3,000,000

    1999
    2006

    2,000,000
    1,000,000 0 Pre-primary Primary Lower Secondary Upper Secondary Total Secondary

    Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    Myanmar
    Education Access: Tertiary

    No tertiary data available except for a gross enrollment in 1998 of 7.4%.

    Source: World Development Indicators

    Myanmar
    Education Access: Gender Girls enrollments grew incrementally in the last 10 years.
    Primary Gross Enrollments by Gender
    120.0%

    115.0% Enrollment (%)

    110.0%

    105.0%
    Primary Male 100.0% Primary Female

    95.0%

    1990
    Source: World Development Indicators

    1995

    2005

    Myanmar
    Education Access: Gender Secondary data is too dated to accurately predict current trends in enrollment.
    Secondary Gross Enrollments by Gender
    33.0% 31.0% Enrollments (%) 29.0% 27.0% 25.0% 23.0% 21.0% 19.0% 17.0% 15.0% Secondary Female Secondary Male

    1990
    Source: World Development Indicators

    1995

    Myanmar
    Education Quality: Testing

    Myanmar does not participate in international testing such as the TIMSS.

    Source:

    Myanmar
    Education Efficiency: Expenditure

    Myanmar spent 1.3% of the GDP and 18.1% of the total government expenditure on education in 2005.

    Source: World Bank EdStats

    Myanmar
    Education Efficiency: Expenditure

    Myanmar spent 27% of the education budget on secondary education and 26.4% of the budget on tertiary education in 2005. No other data on government spending patterns for education is available.

    Source: World Bank EdStats

    Myanmar
    Education Efficiency: Repetition

    Repetition in Myanmar was negligible at 0.55% in 2004.

    Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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