Education in Libya

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Primary education is
both free and compulsory in Libya. Children between the ages of 6 and 15 attend
primary school and then attend secondary school for
three additional years (15- to 18-year-olds). According to figures reported for
the year 2000, approximately 766,807 students attended primary school and had
97,334 teachers; approximately 717,000 students were enrolled in secondary,
technical, and vocational schools;
and about 287,172 students were enrolled in Libya’s universities.[1]

In 2001 public expenditures on education amounted to about 2.7 percent of the
gross domestic
product (GDP). Although no figures were found for government expenditures on
education, Libyan television announced on September 1, 2004, that a new ministry
for education had been formed, the General People’s Committee for Higher
Education.[1]

In the early 1980s, estimates of total literacy were between 50 and 60
percent, or about 70 percent for men and 35 percent for women, but the gender
gap has since narrowed, especially because of increased female school
attendance. For 2001 the United Nations Development Programme’s Human
Development Report estimates that the adult literacy rate climbed to about 80.8
percent, or 91.3 percent for males and 69.3 percent for females. According to
2004 U.S. government estimates, 82 percent of the total adult population (age 15
and older) is literate, or 92 percent of males and 72 percent of females.[1]

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