FREE EDUCATION PLEASE Countries with charges for public primary education

Notice Anything?
Over 100 countries Don't offer free education at primary level. See a pattern?

Angola Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Congo/Brazzaville Congo/Kinshasa Côte d‟Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia
Niger Sao Tomé & Principe Senegal Sierra Leone Swaziland Togo Zimbabwe

Governments rolling back charges
Burundi Gambia Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Nigeria Rwanda South Africa Tanzania Uganda Zambia

The Caribbean
Antigua & Barbuda Belize Grenada Guyana Haiti St Lucia St Vincent Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago


Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Croatia Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan
Macedonia Moldova Romania Russia Serbia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan
Externally funded education
Bosnia & Herzegovina Kosovo

Asia
Bhutan Burma/Myanmar Cambodia China Fiji Indonesia Laos Maldives Nepal Pakistan
Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Viet Nam

Externally funded education
Timor-Leste Governments rolling back charges Bangladesh India Malaysia Mongolia


Middle East and North Africa
Djibouti Egypt Iran Israel Jordan Lebanon Qatar Sudan Syria Tunisia UA Emirates Yemen

Externally funded education
Afghanistan Iraq Palestinian Territories

Latin America
Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Dominican Republic El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
Panama Paraguay Peru