Out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age, male (number) by country

Name: Out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age, male (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Number of adolescents and youth of secondary school age who are not enrolled or attending school during in a given academic year. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/

Countries reporting

138

Highest

3.91 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

71 number

Liechtenstein

Median

26,362 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,212

What the numbers show

Out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age, male (number) is currently reported for 138 countries. The highest value is 3.91 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 71 number in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 26,362 number, and the mean is 207,348 number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 55,079.

Over the past decade 45 countries rose and 88 fell. The largest increase was in Bahamas (up 557.6%), and the largest decrease in Portugal (down 99.1%).

Out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age, male: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	3.91 million number	2015	up 52.1%	rising
2	Indonesia	3.01 million number	2018	down 29.8%	falling
3	Mexico	1.25 million number	2018	down 22.7%	falling
4	Niger	1.15 million number	2017	up 38.6%	rising
5	Myanmar	936,176 number	2018	down 33.9%	falling
6	Côte d'Ivoire	924,839 number	2019	up 0.4%	flat
7	Burkina Faso	920,544 number	2019	up 7.8%	rising
8	Syrian Arab Republic	866,554 number	2013	up 40.2%	falling
9	Chad	801,232 number	2019	—	rising
10	Mozambique	771,999 number	2015	up 52.3%	falling
11	Mali	770,899 number	2018	up 45.5%	rising
12	Cameroon	695,517 number	2015	—	rising
13	Egypt	690,086 number	2019	down 31.7%	falling
14	Yemen	639,077 number	2016	down 11.4%	rising
15	Türkiye	618,155 number	2018	up 12.1%	falling
16	Iraq	576,518 number	2007	down 30.0%	falling
17	Philippines	533,867 number	2015	down 15.3%	falling
18	Guatemala	516,666 number	2018	up 21.6%	rising
19	Kenya	473,144 number	2009	down 42.7%	falling
20	South Africa	467,826 number	2018	down 14.0%	falling
21	Iran, Islamic Republic of	467,517 number	2017	down 44.5%	falling
22	Malaysia	467,159 number	2017	up 12.6%	rising
23	Guinea	452,942 number	2014	up 16.8%	rising
24	Malawi	432,099 number	2019	up 31.0%	rising
25	Ghana	391,572 number	2019	down 27.6%	falling
26	Cambodia	372,528 number	2008	down 45.5%	falling
27	Burundi	366,304 number	2019	up 3.9%	flat
28	Morocco	303,885 number	2019	down 52.6%	falling
29	Colombia	298,093 number	2018	down 27.0%	falling
30	Germany	292,175 number	2018	up 109.0%	rising
31	United States of America	279,687 number	2018	—	falling
32	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	275,458 number	2017	up 3.5%	falling
33	Zimbabwe	265,610 number	2013	down 33.4%	falling
34	Honduras	263,844 number	2019	up 12.6%	flat
35	Jordan	228,237 number	2019	up 181.9%	rising
36	Lao People's Democratic Republic	171,306 number	2019	up 22.3%	rising
37	Argentina	157,961 number	2017	down 51.5%	falling
38	Mauritania	147,009 number	2019	up 5.1%	rising
39	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	129,493 number	2018	up 86.5%	rising
40	Ecuador	126,169 number	2018	down 56.7%	falling
41	Romania	124,946 number	2018	—	rising
42	Uzbekistan	110,663 number	2019	down 66.2%	falling
43	Eritrea	107,562 number	2018	up 1.5%	rising
44	Italy	103,025 number	2018	down 1.6%	falling
45	El Salvador	91,815 number	2018	up 10.7%	falling
46	Dominican Republic	82,735 number	2019	down 39.6%	falling
47	France	80,767 number	2018	down 23.2%	falling
48	Paraguay	80,291 number	2012	down 19.9%	falling
49	Nicaragua	76,410 number	2010	down 47.4%	falling
50	Ukraine	73,385 number	2014	down 7.0%	rising
51	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	70,569 number	2018	down 64.7%	volatile
52	Tajikistan	65,456 number	2011	down 42.2%	falling
53	Palestine, State of	63,266 number	2019	down 9.3%	rising
54	Panama	62,895 number	2017	up 17.0%	falling
55	Cuba	61,256 number	2019	up 11.5%	volatile
56	Republic of Korea	48,801 number	2018	down 55.0%	falling
57	Australia	43,408 number	2018	—	falling
58	Canada	42,055 number	2018	down 55.3%	falling
59	Djibouti	38,417 number	2015	down 15.7%	falling
60	Chile	35,058 number	2018	down 57.3%	falling
61	Kyrgyzstan	34,241 number	2019	down 44.6%	falling
62	Mongolia	31,538 number	2006	down 57.8%	falling
63	Hungary	31,098 number	2018	up 8.6%	falling
64	Lesotho	31,063 number	2016	up 9.1%	falling
65	Switzerland	30,210 number	2018	up 2.3%	flat
66	Bulgaria	29,419 number	2018	down 33.5%	falling
67	Puerto Rico	28,783 number	2018	down 23.7%	falling
68	Republic of Moldova	27,546 number	2019	down 25.5%	falling
69	Peru	26,864 number	2019	down 83.7%	falling
70	Jamaica	25,860 number	2019	up 8.8%	rising
71	Poland	25,778 number	2018	down 81.0%	falling
72	Namibia	22,753 number	2007	down 7.8%	falling
73	Serbia	22,659 number	2019	down 33.9%	falling
74	Kuwait	21,108 number	2015	up 25.9%	rising
75	Armenia	20,042 number	2019	up 177.5%	rising
76	Spain	19,889 number	2018	down 78.2%	volatile
77	Austria	19,194 number	2018	up 12.5%	rising
78	Slovakia	18,347 number	2018	down 32.1%	falling
79	Timor-Leste	18,238 number	2019	down 29.7%	falling
80	Albania	18,233 number	2019	down 14.8%	volatile
81	Croatia	15,777 number	2018	down 13.7%	falling
82	Denmark	12,140 number	2018	down 28.7%	falling
83	Uruguay	11,833 number	2017	down 60.8%	falling
84	Greece	11,622 number	2018	down 60.6%	volatile
85	Netherlands	11,537 number	2018	down 34.9%	rising
86	Mauritius	10,957 number	2019	up 11.2%	falling
87	Suriname	10,428 number	2015	down 23.0%	falling
88	Bhutan	9,970 number	2018	down 40.0%	falling
89	Fiji	9,279 number	2012	down 33.3%	falling
90	Botswana	8,400 number	2003	down 44.7%	falling
91	Costa Rica	8,258 number	2019	down 70.6%	falling
92	Norway	8,169 number	2018	up 23.8%	rising
93	Czechia	7,567 number	2018	down 5.3%	volatile
94	Bahrain	6,985 number	2019	up 86.3%	volatile
95	Cape Verde	6,546 number	2018	down 25.3%	falling
96	Bahamas	6,254 number	2018	up 557.6%	volatile
97	Israel	5,524 number	2015	up 53.7%	rising
98	Belarus	5,314 number	2018	down 45.1%	volatile
99	New Zealand	5,202 number	2018	down 54.0%	volatile
100	Georgia	4,974 number	2019	down 39.2%	volatile
101	Eswatini	4,788 number	2015	down 11.2%	falling
102	Belgium	4,515 number	2018	down 49.2%	volatile
103	Belize	4,478 number	2019	down 8.5%	rising
104	Brunei Darussalam	3,736 number	2019	up 50.3%	falling
105	Vanuatu	3,551 number	2015	down 37.6%	falling
106	Luxembourg	3,446 number	2018	up 35.7%	rising
107	Oman	3,419 number	2018	down 78.3%	volatile
108	Sweden	2,755 number	2015	down 59.3%	volatile
109	Finland	2,631 number	2018	down 67.2%	falling
110	Ireland	2,155 number	2018	down 72.0%	volatile
111	Sao Tome and Principe	2,068 number	2015	down 48.3%	falling
112	Latvia	1,675 number	2018	down 61.8%	falling
113	Samoa	1,460 number	2016	down 47.0%	falling
114	Hong Kong, China	1,431 number	2019	down 97.6%	volatile
115	Lithuania	1,419 number	2018	down 64.6%	volatile
116	Slovenia	1,392 number	2018	down 72.1%	volatile
117	Iceland	1,307 number	2018	down 32.1%	falling
118	Tonga	1,258 number	2015	up 3.1%	rising
119	Macau, China	1,238 number	2019	down 75.7%	falling
120	Qatar	1,233 number	2010	down 79.9%	volatile
121	Malta	1,024 number	2018	down 37.8%	falling
122	Saint Lucia	879 number	2019	down 32.0%	falling
123	Cyprus	810 number	2018	down 37.2%	falling
124	Barbados	680 number	2019	down 18.8%	volatile
125	Seychelles	644 number	2019	down 58.8%	volatile
126	Estonia	572 number	2018	down 85.1%	volatile
127	Azerbaijan	541 number	2019	down 98.7%	volatile
128	Cayman Islands	523 number	2018	up 40.2%	rising
129	Aruba	412 number	2009	up 138.2%	volatile
130	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	390 number	2018	down 22.9%	volatile
131	British Virgin Islands	388 number	2018	up 317.2%	volatile
132	Turks and Caicos Islands	378 number	2018	up 103.2%	rising
133	Portugal	355 number	2018	down 99.1%	volatile
134	Tuvalu	347 number	2019	up 18.0%	rising
135	Dominica	199 number	2019	down 84.4%	volatile
136	Grenada	135 number	2015	down 61.6%	falling
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis	93 number	2016	down 75.3%	volatile
138	Liechtenstein	71 number	2018	up 54.3%	volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 102.47 million number
Low & middle income 100.29 million number
IDA & IBRD total 100.28 million number
Middle income 79.99 million number
Lower middle income 61.77 million number
Early-demographic dividend 60.14 million number
IBRD only 54.07 million number
IDA total 46.28 million number
South Asia 42.28 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 42.28 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 32.86 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 32.86 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 32.85 million number
IDA only 31.71 million number
Least developed countries 30.22 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 28.50 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 25.42 million number
Low income 20.30 million number
Upper middle income 18.22 million number
East Asia & Pacific 16.07 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 15.35 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 15.17 million number
IDA blend 14.51 million number
Late-demographic dividend 11.87 million number
Arab World 5.91 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 4.65 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 4.55 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 4.49 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 4.22 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 4.15 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 4.09 million number
OECD members 4.01 million number
High income 2.18 million number
Europe & Central Asia 2.07 million number
Post-demographic dividend 1.96 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.34 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.17 million number
European Union 888,743 number
Euro area 571,867 number
Small states 462,129 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school adolescents and youth of secondary school age, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 183 places, 4,212 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026