awkwardsituationist:

• globally, 77,600,000 girls do not attend school
  
• there are 33,000,000 fewer girls than boys in primary education
• girls with secondary education are 6 times less likely to be married as children
  
• a girl with 7 years of schooling in the developing world will have 2.2 fewer children
  
• a child born to a literate mother is 50% more likely to survive past the age of 5
• two thirds of the 775,000,000 illiterate adults, and 63% of illiterate youth, are female
  
• literate mothers are twice as likely to immunize their children and send them to school
  
• a girl who completes basic education is 3 times less likely to contract HIV
  
• a girl earns 20% more as an adult for every additional year of education she receives
  
• a nation’s GDP rises an average of 3% when 10% more its girls attend school
• less than 2% of international development funds are specifically allocated to girls
  
• school is not free in over 50 countries