MDG: 2 Universal Primary Education chieve The total number of children out of school fell from 106 million to 67 million between 1999 and 2009 What Do We Want To Achieve? Ensure that all children, boys and girls alike, con complete a full course of primary schooling What Have We Already Achieved? Between 1999 and 2009, 43 million children worldwide were enrolled in primary education The rate of enrollment in sub-Saharan African has increased from 58 to 76 per cent ome of the most impoverished countries are those that have most advanced the access to universal primary education What Challenges Remain? There are still 61 million children left to enroll in schooling worldwide and more than half of them live in sub-Saharan Africa The youth illiteracy rate exceeds more than 120 million people worldwide