200 million migrants in China (Xinhua, 2008)

20 million migrant children in China (China CSR, 2007)

Beijing is home to 5 million migrant workers and 500,000 migrant children (Xinhua, 2007; Global Envision, 2007)

360% increase in migrant children population between the ages of 5-14 from 1997-2004 (China News Agency)

9.3% of the migrant children (over 1 million) fail to attend school

Dropout rate of the 8-year-old migrant children is 0.8%, whereas the dropout rate of the 14-year-old migrant children rises to 15.4%

19.7% of the 9-year-old migrant children are still in the first grade

Statistics. Retrieved 29 My 2009 from http://www.cmc-china.org/index.php?page=statistics&hl=en_US

and http://www.naradafoundation.org/english/whatwedo.asp?cc=3&aa=1

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