Citing ESCWA figures for 2017 published on the World Bank Group website, Al Akhbar said, around 37,844 girls at the age of elementary education are not enrolled in schools compared to some 23,817 boys. In the Arab world, the statistics have shown that the number of unenrolled girls have exceeded 4 million against 3,666,000 boys. (Al Akhbar, March 23, 2019)