Cambodia Schools

• Population: 14,241,640 

o       61% of the rural population doesn’t complete primary school      

o       56% of primary school entrants reaching grade 5 (2000-2006) 

o       30% of pupils drop out from school between grades 1 and 2 (2006)

o       Functionally literate people make up 37% of Cambodia's adult population  

o       About 42% of Cambodian women and 21% of men above the age of 15 have never attended school.

o       34% of population lives with an income below US $1 a day (1995-2005) 

o       Rural households account for nearly 90% of Cambodia’s poor.

o      Human trafficking is a major problem in Cambodia and many of the women who end up as prostitutes are illiterate girls from rural families.