Convention on the Rights of the Child

Table 55

Growth in number of pupils in mainstream schools by level of school and gender during school years 2001/02–2008/09³¹

Description		2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2007/08	2008/09
Basic education	Males	2 257 878	2 337 961	2 425 445	2 450 282	2 364 074	2 429 009	2 498 675
	Females	1 314 387	1 427 208	1 530 306	1 622 022	1 607 779	1 760 762	1 828 775
	Total	3 572 265	3 765 169	3 955 751	4 082 292	3 971 853	4 189 681	4 327 450
Secondary education	Males	375 996	388 739	411 016	409 796	352 977	356 866	374 317
	Females	145 442	160 624	177 979	185 298	172 813	194 041	206 512
	Total	521 438	549 363	588 995	590 114	525 790	560 907	580 829
Grand total		4 093 703	4 314 532	4 544 746	4 667 408	4 497 643	4 750 588	4 908 279

Table 56

Growth in kindergarten enrolment rates by child gender, and teacher-to-child ratio and average class density during school years 2001/02–2008/09³²

		Children enrolled in kindergartens			Total enrolment (%)
Years	Number of classes	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Average number of children per class	Teacher-to-child ratio
2001/02	513	6 588	5 917	12 505	0.36	0.33	0.34	24.4	14.1
2002/03	624	7 813	6 958	14 771	0.41	0.35	0.39	23.7	15.3
2003/04	610	8 336	6 978	15 304	0.42	0.37	0.39	25.1	14.7
2004/05	758	9 903	8 090	17 993	0.46	0.40	0.43	23.7	15.3
2005/06	952	11 438	9 600	21 038	0.53	0.47	0.50	22.1	14.9
2006/07	1 089	11 956	10 069	22 025	0.54	0.48	0.52	20.2	15.1
2007/08	1 089	12 838	10 964	23 802	0.55	0.49	0.52	21.9	16.2
2008/09	1 442	13 684	12 208	25 892	0.56	0.50	0.53	18.0	14.5