Two new reports have found that COVID-19 pandemic related school closures risk pushing an additional 72 million primary school aged children, including those in the Caribbean, into learning poverty.
This means that they will not be able to read and understand a simple text by age 10.
The World Bank said the COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying the global learning crisis that already existed.
The Washington-based financial institution said the pandemic could increase the percentage of primary school-age children in low- and middle-income countries, such as those in the Caribbean, living in learning poverty to 63 per cent from 53 per cent.
The banks said it puts this generation of students at risk of losing about US$10 trillion in future life-time earnings.
That amounts to nearly 10 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP).
The reports by the World Bank outline a new vision for learning and the investments and policies, including on education technology, that countries can implement to realise this vision.
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