This Statistics About Nigeria's current challenge in education MUST change in the next decade.
As of 2016, Nigeria had an estimated population of 186 million, the largest in Africa, seventh largest in the world, and home to one of the largest youth populations in the world (44% under 15 and 60% under 24). The United Nations anticipates that Nigeria will become the third largest country in the world by 2050 with 399 million people and with the potential to emerge as a major global economy. But education is critical to this growth. Nigeria’s education system has three sectors: basic education (9 years), senior secondary education (3 years), and tertiary education (4 – 6 years). The tertiary level consists of universities and non-universities, such as polytechnics and colleges of education, which offer opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and vocational or technical education. But the quality of education in Nigeria is one of the poorest in Africa and government spending is one of the lowest.
Learning outcomes result in gaps in basic literacy and numeracy skills. A 2015 World Bank report using Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER), the World Bank’s global platform for benchmarking education systems, reveals that as of July 2017, Nigeria had the most out of school children of any country in the world: 10.5 million. This is equivalent to 1 in every 3 children who should be in school not in school. Indonesia with a similar population size and income level had only 2 percent of primary school children out of school. If the 10.5 million children were to complete primary education and enter the labor market, $6 billion will be added to the GDP.
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