education

Education in Afghanistan includes K-12 and Higher education, which is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the Human Development Index, Afghanistan is the 15th least developed country in the world. Since 2002, it is going through a nationwide rebuilding process and despite some setbacks due to the ongoing Taliban insurgency the education sector has been improving as new educational institutions are established and more students being enrolled. As of 2011, there were 8.2 million students in Afghanistan, a country which has about 26 million people living in it.

-literacy rate

definition: age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 28.1%

male: 43.1%

female: 12.6% (2000 est.)

-school life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)

total: 9 years

male: 11 years

female: 7 years (2009)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Afghanistan