Mongolia vs Pakistan
Side-by-side comparison of how these places approach childhood.
Mongolia
Mongolian children as young as five race horses across the open steppe in national festivals.
During Naadam festival, children jockeys ride bareback for 15-30 km across open grassland in a tradition dating back centuries.
Pakistan
Over 20 million Pakistani children are out of school, the world's second highest number.
Despite constitutional guarantees of free education, poverty and gender barriers keep millions of children from classrooms.
Mongolia
Mongolia follows a 5-4-3 structure with 12 years of compulsory education. Mongolian is the language of instruction in Cyrillic script. Boarding schools serve nomadic herder families. English is taught from grade 5.
Pakistan
Pakistan runs three parallel education tracks: government schools, private schools, and religious madrassas. Quality varies enormously. Each province sets its own curriculum since the 18th Amendment devolved education in 2010.
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