I checked UNESCO

UNICEF statistics at http://www.unicef.org/files/Table5.pdf claim that
82 percent of the world's children enrol in primary school, while
between 80 % (administrative figures) and 89 % (survey figures)
reaches grade 5.  Multiplicating thes numbers indicate that between 65
and 73 percent of the world's children complete primary school
(1995-2001 data).

More detailed figures can be found at the above address.

Search strategy:
I went to UNICEFs website at www.unicef.org, made a search for
"education", clicked at "Girl's education"
(http://www.unicef.org/girlseducation/), then at "statistics" which
gave me the link refered to above.

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Clarification of Answer by blazius-ga on 07 Feb 2005 11:13 PST

The World Bank has a map showing the primary school completion
percentages around the world, see
http://www.developmentgoals.org/map-pcr.gif

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Clarification of Answer by blazius-ga on 07 Feb 2005 11:17 PST

I am sorry for the typos in my original answer.  Being a Norwegian, I
cannot possibly blame my home country's school system - the UNICEF
stats claim that 101,5 percent (sic!) of Norwegian children attend
primary school.  :-)

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Request for Answer Clarification by frontranger68-ga on 07 Feb 2005 14:14 PST

Hello Blazius-ga,

Please do not worry about your typos. :-) Your answer is exactly what
I needed. Thanks so much for your hard work.

Greetings from Denver, Colorado!

Jay

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Clarification of Answer by blazius-ga on 08 Feb 2005 00:05 PST

The table I quoted was from the UNICEF report "The state of the
world's children 2005", it is available at
http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/fullreport.html .  The web site
includes a "statistical tool" thal allows you to generate customised
tables with the countries/regions and parameters you need, see
http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_24183.html .

Thanks for the nice rating!

The UNICEF source was excellent and I will consult it in my future
research. Thank you.