10 toughest places for girls to go to school

While affluent Western countries, girls are often ahead of boys in academic achievement, in poorer parts of the world, particularly subSaharan Africa, girls are much more likely to be missing out.

And on the UN’s International Day of the Girl, the development campaign, One, has created a ranking for the in toughest places for girls to get an education.

1. South Sudan: the world’s newest country has faced much violence and war, with the destruction of schools and families forced from their homes. Almost three-quarters of girls do not even make it to primary school

2. Central African Republic: one teacher for every 80 pupils

3. Niger: only 17% of women between the ages of 15 and 24 are literate

4. Afghanistan: wide gender gap, with boys more likely to be in school than girls

5. Chad: many social and economic barriers to girls and women getting education

6. Mali: only 38% of girls finish primary school

7. Guinea: the average time in education among women over the age of 25 is less than one year

8. Burkina Faso: only 1% of girls complete secondary school

9. Liberia: almost two-thirds of primaryage pupils out of school

10. Ethiopia: two in five girls are married before the age of 18.

Source: BBC.