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South Sudan is believed to have the worst literacy rate in the world, behind even Mali and Niger. A July 2012 report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) found that less than 2 percent of the population has completed primary school education.

Adult Literacy: 27 percent (2009)

Primary School Enrollment

  • 2006: 700,000
  • 2010: 1.6 million

Government Education Spending

South Sudan allocates 16 percent of the national budget to education. However opposition political parties and aid agencies claim the real figure is less than 10 percent.

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  • Education is our right, S. Sudanese children say

    Monday 25 January 2016
    January 25, 2016 (BENTIU) - At least 2,000 children in South Sudan’s Unity state started their primary leaving examinations, two years after war broke out in the world’s youngest nation, killing tens of thousands and displacing more than (...)

  • South Sudan’s first lady aids over 2,000 school children

    Thursday 15 March 2018
    March 14, 2018 (JUBA) – The first lady of South Sudan, Mary Ayen has distributed school bags to children in Akon county of Gogrial state. South Sudan’s first lady Mary Ayen (SSTV photo) Over 2,000 children benefited from the (...)

  • 27,145 students to sit secondary school exams in S. Sudan

    Sunday 8 December 2019
    December 7, 2019 (JUBA) – A total of 27,145 students will sit this year’s South Sudanese secondary exams countrywide, an official disclosed. A classroom session at a school in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state (Photo courtesy (...)

  • South Sudan to hire 20,000 Zimbabwean teachers: report

    Sunday 7 February 2016
    February 06, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s education minister, John Gai is in Zimbabwe to plans to hiring of hundreds of its teachers and nurses to work in the young nation. Lakes state teachers demonstrate on the streets to demand (...)

  • S. Sudan launches campaign to reduce high illiteracy rates

    Saturday 8 September 2012
    September 7, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan, on Friday, officially launched a nationwide campaign as part of the "education for all programme", seeking a 50 percent reduction in adult illiteracy among its population by 2015. Pupils of (...)

  • South Sudan seeks Chinese support in education sector

    Thursday 18 July 2019
    July 17, 2019 (JUBA) - South Sudan is seeking to strengthen cooperation with China to enhance development in the education sector. A sample of the primary school textbooks, October 22, 2012 (ST) The country’s general education (...)

  • South Sudan Students’ Union in Uganda accused of corruption

    Friday 5 October 2012
    October 04, 2012 (KAMPALA) – The Secretary of finance for the South Sudanese Students’ Union in Uganda (SSSU) is in police custody in Kampala after being accused of forging signatures and withdrawing more than $50,000 without the (...)

  • South Sudan general education minister visits Unity state

    Wednesday 30 May 2012
    By Bonifacio Taban Kuich May 28, 2012 (BENTIU) - South Sudan’s general education minister, Joseph Ukel Abango, visited Unity State after ordering the closure of private universities operating in South Sudan. Governor Taban Deng (...)

  • Sudan ranks at bottom end of latest UN development index

    Wednesday 20 March 2013
    March 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan languished at the lower end of the latest Human Development Index (HDI) published recently by the United Nations, ranking 171 out of 187 countries included world-wide. While the ranking puts Sudan (...)

  • AfDB approves $17.7m for first education project in S. Sudan

    Monday 23 September 2019
    September 22, 2019 (JUBA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a proposal for US$17.7 million to finance the first social sector project in South Sudan since the Bank’s engagement in the young nation. Student attending (...)

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