KARACHI: The number of school-age children in Pakistan is 50,158,104 out of which 37 per cent are unable to attend school, said a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) report on education on Tuesday. There are 220 million children in lower and lower-middle income countries who are out of school,” the report said. UNESCO said this proportion is equivalent to 9 million children that applied to all low-income/low middle-income countries. From this, we can estimate that 3.5 million children which make 40 per cent of 9 million in lower and lower-middle income countries are kept in school because of remittances,” the report added. We calculate that households in our sample spend an average of 5.7 per cent of household resources on education.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2019 17:15 UTC