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Youth in the Dominican Republic constituted just over thirty percent of the population in 2008. The Dominican Republic's population at roughly eleven million people has grown tremendously with the help of the youth population. In 1960, the youth population was at 3.3 million, and by 2008, it had reached 9.5 million, with two thirds of them in urban areas of the country. Many inequalities in the form of education, employment, poverty and health are still apparent and affect youth today.〔 The Dominican Republic is the only country that has a youth-only secretariat. In 2000, the country approved its General Youth Law, which allocates a budget of 1 percent of the national budget for the youth secretariat. The law helps with youth development programs that promote education and development. The country also has multiple governmental laws that protect minors younger than eighteen years old from being arrested, legally processed, and going to jail.〔 == Education == The standard of education in the Dominican Republic is low. Basic education enrollment is high (89% in 2008-2009), but 22,000 youth ages 10–14 remain out of school. Secondary enrollment is drastically lower (50% in 2008-2009), as some youth face different constraints to accessing education at this level.〔 Around 55% children and adolescents do not attend school because their right to enter the system is denied. This restricted access to education affects children who do not have documents, which mainly includes children who were born in the country to undocumented Dominican parents and children of Haitian parents. Since Haiti is also on the island, there is a reoccurring problem of illegal migration into the Dominican Republic, which increases the youth population in the school systems. This was seen immensely after the Haiti hurricane of 2010, which killed over 200,000 people. After the hurricane destroyed much of the Haitian side, families migrated for a new beginning. Overcrowding and repetition of material is a major problem in schools, especially in urban settings. In public schools with 500 students or more (accounting for 68% of total enrollment), the student-teacher ratio is 78:1.〔 Teachers are not able to work with individual students. Children spend almost ten years in school, but make progress very slowly because they have to repeat grades. The average estimated repetition rates for the first three grades are 12.4 and 7.7 percent in both urban and rural areas. Teachers can be teaching class, but may only understand around 40% of the material they are supposed to be teaching. Over the past few decades, the government has enacted multiple reform efforts to improve the education level of its citizens.The General Law on Education, passed in 1997, guarantees the right of all the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic to education.〔 Although education is provided, youth still have a hard time with reading and writing. In 2008, more than 23,000 youth ages 10–14 and nearly 25,000 youth ages 15–19 characterized themselves as unable to read or write. Between the ages of 20-24, more than 44,000 were unable to read or write.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Youth in the Dominican Republic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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