One of the most important indicators of socioeconomic development in a country is the educational level of its population. Moreover, education, especially for women, is closely linked to a number of demographic and health outcomes for which trends are examined in this report, including fertility, contraceptive use, and health and nutritional status of mothers and children. Figure shows substantial improvement in household educational attainment in the past ten years. In 1996, 63 percent of males and 32 percent of females, age six years and over had ever attended school at some time in their lifetime and in 2006,.
