MAKE AN ACADEMIC IMPACT

Educated women are more likely… Volume XLVII  •  Number 3  •  2010

1 Eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger
... to provide for their children’s nutrition
Children whose height for age is more than two standard
deviations below average 2 Achieve universal
primary education Poorest households
Mother’s education ... to get their children to school Wealthiest households
Secondary or
higher education
25%
37% Children 6-12 years old who have ever attended school
100% 92%
3 Promote gender equality
and empower women
36% 86% ... to address their own needs
4
Primary education 44%
80% 75%
80%
88%
Reduce child
Women who have a final say in their own health care
No education 42% 60% mortality
49% 60%

40%
... to guarantee their children's survival
0% 20% 40% 60%
58% 67% 74% Children over one year old immunized against measles
20%
100%
Mother’s education 87%
0%
80% 75%
No education Primary Secondary or No education Primary Secondary or
education higher education higher education 77%
58%

5
education 60% 66%
Improve maternal
40% 85%
health 44%
71%
... to have a skilled professional at childbirth 20%
49%

6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria Mother’s education

0%
Births attended by a skilled health professional No education Primary Secondary or
and other diseases education higher
100%
... to protect themselves and education

80%

73%
their families from disease 7 Ensure environmental
sustainability
60%
... to ensure adequate sanitation
8
No Primary Secondary or
education education higher education Develop a global partnership
40% 49% Bednets in household Bednets in household Bednets in household
38%
Women living in a household with a flush toilet for development
36% 100% 100% 100%
20%
24% Mother’s 50% 50% 50%
... to benefit from information and
0%
17% education 30% 39% 40% 100%
communication technologies
0% 8% 0% 19% 0%
No Primary Secondary No Primary Secondary 47%
71%
38% 80% 76% Women with access to a cell phone
education education or higher education education or higher 92%
education education
Heard of Used condom Heard of Used condom Heard of Used condom 60%
AIDS in high risk sex AIDS in high risk sex AIDS in high risk sex 54%
50% 31% 36% 54%
40%

20% 27%
Prepared for the UN Chronicle by the Statistics Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
17% Richest 60%
“Poorest households” correspond to the 40% of the population living in the poorest households; “wealthiest households” correspond 0%
Secondary 13% 4% 7% 28%
to the 60% of the population living in the wealthiest households. Number of ­countries in each chart varies between 29 and 39 or higher Primary Poorest 40%
depending on data availability (Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, ­Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of education education No
education
Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, ­Ehtiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, No education Primary
Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, ­Swaziland, Tanzania, education Secondary or
higher
Ukraine, Zambia, Zimbabwe). All data collected in Demographic and Health Surveys conducted from 2004-2009. education