For instance, as a result of the UPE which provided free and compulsory primary education, the national primary school enrolment rate rose dramatically from 2.5 million in 1997 to 7.2 million in 2000.

UNESCO: Country Profile: Uganda

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.

UNESCO: Family Basic Education (FABE)

It is due to such a comprehensive primary schooling system that the Net Enrolment Rate (NER) for primary school in Indonesia reached 95.41 per cent in 2011.

UNESCO: AKRAB! (Literacy Creates Power)

One-tenth of the world's primary-age children who are not in school live in Pakistan 7m of them, thanks to a net enrolment rate (after allowing for dropouts) of just 57%.

ECONOMIST: A small start on the big problem of illiteracy

As a result, the 2010 national census established that China had achieved near-universal primary school net enrolment and youth literacy rates (see above) while its total adult literacy rate rose markedly from 66 per cent in 1982 to 91 per cent in 2000 and 94 per cent by 2010.

UNESCO: Community Learning Centres (CLC) Programme