Enrolment in pre-primary, secondary and tertiary education has also grown by more than 60% during the same period.
Nor should Brazil, where enrolment in secondary schools jumped to 52% last year, says Paulo Renato de Souza, its education minister.
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Since the mid-1990s, when tough state parity laws started taking effect, enrolment in managed mental health plans has doubled to 140 million.
UNESCO, secondary-school enrolment in Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua by 2010 will still be under 45%, and in Haiti just 17%.
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In the past five years the rate of enrolment in higher education has taken off, from 7% to 13% of young Indians.
As a result of UPE, the national rate of enrolment in primary school education rose dramatically from 2.5 million in 1997 to 7.2 million in 2000.
In 2005, for example, it was estimated that enrolment in most rural schools was below 80%, with more than 20% of primary school children subsequently dropping out of school.
"Countries in sub-Saharan Africa that currently increase enrolment in primary education will need to recruit the equivalent of 63% of their current teaching workforce before 2015, " says Marc Bernal, UIS regional advisor in Africa.
At the top end, Stanford, which is a private university, and Berkeley, which is not, continue to produce fine students, but enrolment in public universities and colleges has been declining in the past few years.
Proponents of affirmative action, including most university administrators, feel they need only point to the decline of minority enrolment in the best public universities in California and Texas in the two years since the ban on racial preferences went into effect.
Between 2000 and 2005, primary school enrolment in India increased by 22.5 per cent overall, and by 31 per cent for girls alone but despite this leap some 25 per cent of children in 2005 left school before reaching Grade 5, and almost half before reaching Grade 8.
Sweeping education reforms in 1992 not only relaxed enrolment rules in the state sector, allowing students to attend schools outside their own municipality, but also let them take their state funding to private schools, including religious ones and those operating for profit.
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To get a sense of the scale of UID's achievement, linger at a mosquito-ridden enrolment centre in Uttan Gaon, a coastal village north of Mumbai.
The result of this strong support to educational development is manifested by high enrolment rates in primary, secondary and tertiary education (averaging at 95%) and high youth and adult literacy rates (99%).
Bahia's state government has declared education its top priority, and plans to lift enrolment rates in primary schools from 80% to 98% by 2002, and in secondary schools from 22% to 40%.
Gender parity in primary school enrolment has greatly improved in the countries that started the decade with the greatest gender gaps.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the gross enrolment ratio for girls in lower secondary education is 39% compared to 48% for boys.
For most of the past decade, funding and enrolment expanded steadily in states that had launched such programmes.
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The report shows that overall school enrolment has improved in the region.
Many liberal Jews still see sectarian day schools as somehow un-American, and the relatively few Conservative and non-denominational day schools have seen a drop in enrolment since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Although the Philippines has made significant progress towards the provision of Education for All (EFA) and, in turn, achieved high enrolment rates (91.4 per cent) in primary education and high youth and adult literacy rates (94 per cent), pockets of illiteracy and people with limited access to education remain.
However, unlike Region 1, the increase in population in this area is matched by a corresponding increase in school enrolment.
Gender balance among staff is vital: countries with a higher proportion of female primary teachers are more likely to have higher enrolment rates for girls in secondary schools.
About 35 million girls were enrolled in lower secondary education in 2009, with the female gross enrolment ratio reaching 69% compared to 53% in 1999.
Participation in the scheme is free and enrolment only takes a few minutes at the two dedicated miSense check-in kiosks set up in the terminal for both Cathay Pacific and Emirates passengers.
But the enrolment of Prince William, in his final year of a four-year geography degree, is thought to have boosted the university's reputation among the English privately-educated gentry.
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Mian Shuja ur Rehman, Education Minister of Punjab, referred to the commitment of provincial leadership for achieving 100% enrolment and retention of children in primary schools by 2015.
Similarly, UNESCO noted that the net enrolment ratio (NER) in pre-primary education in 2005 for children aged 3 to 5 years was 46 per cent which suggest that well over half the pre-school aged population has no access to ECE.
Yet in terms of enrolment, sub-Saharan Africa has made the greatest gains of all regions, with gross enrolment ratios rising from 28% to 43% for lower secondary and from 20% to 27% for upper secondary education between 1999 and 2009.
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