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In addition to its main web site at unicef.org , UNICEF maintains a separate web site at childinfo.org with a wide range of statistics on issues related to children and women. In the area of education, the Childinfo web site provides a complete set of country profiles with current statistics for 206 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Complete profiles have three sections, with past trends, the current state of the education system, and prospects for 2015. The section on trends contains up to six graphs with data from 1980 to the present. Pre-primary school gross and net enrollment rates Primary school net enrollment and net attendance rates Secondary school net enrollment and net attendance rates Survival rate to grade 5 Pupil/teacher ratio Education expenditures as percent of GDP and as percent of total government expenditures The section on the current state of the education system lists up to two tables and six graphs. Statistics from the education database o...

Nepal is one of UNICEF's 25 priority countries for girls' education . Countries were selected if they met three or more of the following criteria: female primary school net enrollment rate below 70 percent, gender gap in primary education above 10 percent, more than 1 million girls out of school, included in the Education for All Fast Track Initiative , affected by crises like HIV/AIDS and military conflict. In Nepal, the primary school net enrollment rate (NER) of girls was historically below 70 percent and much lower than the NER of boys, with a gender gap above 10 percent. Nepal also suffers from the consequences of a long-running Maoist insurgency. Two other criteria are not met by Nepal. The country is not on the list of countries covered by the Fast Track Initiative, and the number of girls out of school is below 1 million. A recent publication by UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Children out of school: Measuring exclusion from primary education , estimates...