Education for Children and Young People in Nigeria and the United Kingdom

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FACT SHEET I
Fact sheet on education for children and young people in Nigeria
Nigeria is located in West Africa and is the most populated nation of the country. In
terms of the compass of population, Nigeria ranks seventh on an international level
(Adegoke, 2017; Dambo et al., 2020). Nigeria is home to thousands of multi-ethnic
communities that speak various languages and adhere to various religions; in 1991, Nigeria
signed the UN'S group meeting in regards to the children's rights (Osaiyuwu, 2019). Nigeria
is categorized as a lower middle-income nation, with an estimated population of 211,
400,704 million people in 2021(The World Bank, 2022a).
 The total number of children in Nigeria from the years 0 to 14 is estimated to be
91,555,124 million, with 46,806,974 males and 44,748,139 females in 2021 (The
World Bank, 2022b).
 The education system in Nigeria is structured using the formula of 1 year time period
of pre-primary schooling, 3 years of junior-grade and then the school from
elementary pedagogy. The very next 3 years are precedent secondary and followed
by 4 years of university teaching. (Ogunode et al. 2022).
 9 years of formal education is compulsory for the attainment of basic pedagogy in
the country, as per the instructions of the National Policy on Education, 2004

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(UNESCO, 2O22). In Nigeria, basic education is free and compulsory (UNICEF,
2022a).
 From the age of 6 to 15 years, education is mandatory. In Nigeria, the total amount
of public schools is 61,921, and the private schools are 55,004 in number. The actual
figure of children in school is an approximate number of 5.5 million students in
privately funded schools and 22.4 million in centrally publicised primary educational
institutions as of 2018 (Sasu, 2022a).
 In Nigeria, there are 13,000 public schools serving over 5 million educates. There
were around 81.3 thousand public classrooms for pre-primary education in Nigeria,
and the required number of classrooms were 146.5 thousand, enunciating that
Nigeria lacked around 65.2 thousand classrooms (Sasu, 2022b).
 Globally, the highest percentage of children in terms of the total Nigeria's population
that are out of school is roughly about 18.5 million and 60 per cent of the
approximate ratio tends to be female (Ogunode et al., 2022).
 Nigeria's total GDP In 2021 is $440.776, 971.54 billion (The World Bank, 2022c). The
education sector is allotted 7.2% of Nigeria's N17 trillion 2022 budget, which was
passed into law at the end of 2021 (UNICEF, 2022b).
 Key components in the pattern of educational inequality in Nigeria are location,
poverty and gender. There is a definitive lack of access to formal education,
especially for girls. (UNICEF, 2022c).
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