The difference in percentages between gross enrolment ratio dropped by more than half from primary to secondary school.

It is based on the adult literacy rate and the combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools.

At primary level, official figures claim a gross enrolment ratio of over 90 per cent, but drop-out levels continue to be very high in rural areas.

However Costa Rica's gross enrolment ratio is only 73.0%, smaller than that of the neighbors countries of El Salvador and Honduras.

The Human Development Index in the neighborhood is one of the highest in Southeast Brazil, as well as its per-capita income, and Gross Enrolment Ratio.

According to the UN Development Programme, the gross enrolment ratio at primary level has been most recently calculated as being 39% for boys, with a corresponding rate for girls of just 3%.

According to Dr.Shaikh Tanveer Ahmed, Karachi is the most educated city of Pakistan, with the highest literacy rate along with a gross enrolment ratio of 111%, the highest in Sindh.

The United Nations Education Index, which is measured by the adult literacy rate and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrolment ratio, ranks Belgium on the 18th place in the world as of 2011.

A survey conducted by the Industry body Assocham ranks Tamil Nadu top among Indian states with about 100 per cent Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in primary and upper primary education.

Determined to raise the Gross Enrolment Ratio of primary education from a low rate of 41.7% in 2002 to 94% by 2012, the Government of Niger designed Comité de Gestion des Establissements Scolaires, or COGES, by establishing a management committee for each school.