Achieving universal primary education (UPE) is the second of the MDGs. It requires every child to enroll in a primary school and complete the full cycle of primary education. Every child in every country would need to be currently in school for this goal to be achieved by 2015. Considerable progress has been made in this regard in many countries, notably by encouraging enrollment in the first level of education. Few of the world's poorest countries have dramatically improved their enrollment rates. , reduced gender gaps and extended opportunities for disadvantaged groups. Enrollments in South and West Asia (SWA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), in particular, increased by 23 percent and 51 percent respectively between 1999 and 2007. Net enrollment rates in education primary school (NER) increased at a much faster rate than in the 1990s and, in 2007, it stood at 86 percent and 73 percent respectively in these two regions, for girls, the NER rates in 2007 were a little lower at 84 percent and 71 percent respectively. The number of primary school-aged children out of school fell by 33 million to g...