Education Global Practice - June 19, 2022




                                                           Senegal
                                       Country Profile - AFW Education Strategy


REGIONAL EDUCATION STRATEGY                                         • Secondary Gross Enrollment Rate (Female). The
                                                                      secondary school gross enrollment rate for girls is 49. This
The AFW Education strategy aims to outline priority ar-               is higher than the regional target by 2025.
eas, guiding principles, and high-impact interventions for the
World Bank in its efforts to help countries to increase access to
and improve the quality of education in AFW during the next
four years. The regional education strategy will have three
main targets:
 • Learning Poverty. Reduce learning poverty from 80%
   in 2020 to 75% by 2025 and 66% by 2030. Achieving it
   would add 11.1 million more literate children by 2025,
   and 29.7 million more by 2030.
 • Secondary Gross Enrollment Rate (Female).. In-
   crease girls’ secondary school gross enrollment from 43%
   in 2020 to 47.9% by 2025 and 57.2% by 2030. Achieving
   it would add 4.6 million more girls in secondary school by
   2025, and 12.5 million more by 2030.
 • Skills. Expand access to market-relevant TVET and
   higher education: (i) increase GER in tertiary education
   from 11% to 14% by 2025 and to 20% by 2030. Reach-
   ing this target would increase access to an additional 3
   million youth by 2024 and 8 million by 2030. (ii) ex-
   pand skilling in foundational skills (3.7 million adults by
   2025) and digital skills (1 million youth by 2025), where        • Tertiary Gross Enrollment Rate. The tertiary gross
   60 percent of trained youth obtain better jobs.                    enrollment rate is 13. This is lower than the regional
                                                                      target by 2025.

TARGET INDICATORS IN THE COUNTRY

 • Learning Poverty. The learning poverty rate is 69.
   This represents the percentage of children under the age
   of 10 who cannot read and understand a simple story.
   This is lower than the regional target by 2025.




                                                                    • Adult Literacy Rate. The adult literacy rate is 52 per-
                                                                      cent, based on the latest World Development Indicators
                                                                      data.