Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, both sexes (number) by country

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

Number of children, adolescents, and youth of primary, lower secondary, and upper 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

139

Highest

10.30 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

224 number

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median

68,327 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,255

What the numbers show

Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, both sexes (number) is currently reported for 139 countries. The highest value is 10.30 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 224 number in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The median across all reporting countries is 68,327 number, and the mean is 532,087 number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 45,985.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 97 fell. The largest increase was in British Virgin Islands (up 342.9%), and the largest decrease in Kazakhstan (down 92.1%).

Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	10.30 million number	2015	down 14.6%	falling
2	Indonesia	6.99 million number	2018	down 27.1%	falling
3	Niger	3.62 million number	2017	up 17.4%	rising
4	Mali	2.95 million number	2018	up 52.0%	rising
5	Chad	2.51 million number	2019	—	rising
6	Burkina Faso	2.51 million number	2019	down 5.1%	falling
7	Mexico	2.37 million number	2018	down 24.3%	falling
8	Côte d'Ivoire	2.24 million number	2019	down 27.7%	falling
9	Syrian Arab Republic	2.23 million number	2013	up 72.1%	falling
10	Yemen	2.21 million number	2016	down 9.1%	falling
11	Mozambique	2.15 million number	2015	down 1.4%	falling
12	Kenya	1.92 million number	2009	down 47.8%	falling
13	Myanmar	1.82 million number	2018	down 43.7%	falling
14	Iraq	1.77 million number	2007	down 21.6%	falling
15	South Africa	1.72 million number	2018	up 20.8%	falling
16	Cameroon	1.70 million number	2015	—	rising
17	Türkiye	1.52 million number	2018	down 2.1%	falling
18	Guinea	1.43 million number	2014	down 4.3%	falling
19	Egypt	1.43 million number	2019	down 29.1%	falling
20	Guatemala	1.31 million number	2018	up 31.2%	flat
21	Philippines	1.21 million number	2015	down 45.9%	falling
22	Iran, Islamic Republic of	1.03 million number	2017	down 49.0%	falling
23	Malawi	971,976 number	2019	up 28.0%	rising
24	Cambodia	885,901 number	2008	down 49.7%	falling
25	Burundi	837,733 number	2019	down 5.4%	falling
26	Malaysia	821,680 number	2017	down 7.8%	rising
27	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	806,026 number	2017	up 39.1%	falling
28	Ghana	760,252 number	2019	down 56.2%	falling
29	Jordan	705,567 number	2019	up 163.0%	volatile
30	Morocco	682,493 number	2019	down 62.1%	falling
31	Colombia	635,516 number	2018	down 12.6%	falling
32	United States of America	634,451 number	2018	down 66.4%	falling
33	Honduras	619,551 number	2019	down 7.7%	falling
34	Zimbabwe	597,831 number	2013	down 46.8%	falling
35	Germany	584,808 number	2018	up 61.7%	rising
36	Eritrea	474,639 number	2018	up 41.6%	flat
37	Mauritania	430,249 number	2019	up 8.7%	rising
38	Lao People's Democratic Republic	413,079 number	2019	up 2.1%	falling
39	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	351,101 number	2018	up 144.1%	rising
40	El Salvador	282,402 number	2018	up 54.1%	flat
41	Italy	279,576 number	2018	up 38.6%	falling
42	Uzbekistan	267,326 number	2019	down 65.5%	falling
43	Ukraine	258,676 number	2014	down 15.6%	flat
44	Paraguay	256,631 number	2012	up 13.3%	rising
45	Ecuador	253,504 number	2018	down 57.1%	falling
46	Argentina	238,178 number	2017	down 49.9%	falling
47	Dominican Republic	205,006 number	2019	down 33.9%	falling
48	Tajikistan	194,381 number	2011	down 40.5%	falling
49	Peru	183,770 number	2019	down 40.7%	volatile
50	Panama	176,478 number	2017	up 65.0%	rising
51	Nicaragua	165,273 number	2010	down 56.2%	falling
52	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	162,719 number	2018	down 56.8%	volatile
53	France	144,099 number	2018	down 31.4%	volatile
54	Republic of Korea	125,018 number	2018	down 39.4%	falling
55	Spain	118,762 number	2018	down 18.6%	volatile
56	Cuba	113,939 number	2019	down 1.3%	volatile
57	Poland	111,932 number	2018	down 71.4%	falling
58	Palestine, State of	110,006 number	2019	down 33.9%	falling
59	Djibouti	105,979 number	2015	down 37.9%	falling
60	Bulgaria	103,302 number	2018	up 11.2%	falling
61	Puerto Rico	102,684 number	2018	down 7.6%	flat
62	Jamaica	94,999 number	2019	up 50.8%	rising
63	Chile	91,430 number	2018	down 53.2%	falling
64	Australia	85,603 number	2018	—	volatile
65	Canada	84,667 number	2018	down 57.3%	falling
66	Hungary	76,683 number	2018	up 18.2%	falling
67	Namibia	73,237 number	2007	down 19.3%	falling
68	Republic of Moldova	70,875 number	2019	down 14.5%	falling
69	Lesotho	68,886 number	2016	down 25.9%	falling
70	Kyrgyzstan	68,327 number	2019	down 47.2%	falling
71	Switzerland	65,832 number	2018	down 18.4%	falling
72	Azerbaijan	57,966 number	2019	down 38.5%	falling
73	Mongolia	51,944 number	2006	down 68.4%	falling
74	Botswana	51,638 number	2003	down 31.8%	falling
75	Slovakia	46,056 number	2018	down 19.3%	falling
76	Serbia	45,473 number	2019	down 34.4%	falling
77	Armenia	44,799 number	2019	up 66.9%	falling
78	Eswatini	42,391 number	2015	down 18.1%	falling
79	Timor-Leste	41,180 number	2019	down 41.4%	falling
80	Kuwait	39,467 number	2015	up 38.1%	falling
81	Greece	37,796 number	2018	down 58.9%	volatile
82	Austria	35,063 number	2018	up 3.4%	flat
83	United Arab Emirates	32,317 number	2017	—	volatile
84	Albania	31,277 number	2019	down 36.9%	volatile
85	Croatia	28,304 number	2018	down 19.2%	volatile
86	Denmark	25,708 number	2018	down 22.0%	falling
87	Suriname	24,046 number	2015	down 20.7%	falling
88	Oman	23,096 number	2019	down 46.1%	volatile
89	Bhutan	22,162 number	2018	down 58.0%	volatile
90	Netherlands	21,593 number	2018	—	falling
91	Bahamas	20,531 number	2018	up 185.7%	rising
92	Mauritius	19,420 number	2019	down 12.1%	falling
93	Uruguay	18,966 number	2017	down 67.4%	falling
94	Czechia	18,394 number	2018	down 66.3%	volatile
95	Kazakhstan	18,181 number	2013	down 92.1%	volatile
96	Cape Verde	16,063 number	2018	down 6.6%	falling
97	Norway	15,843 number	2018	up 6.7%	rising
98	Fiji	15,290 number	2012	down 36.5%	falling
99	Belgium	13,833 number	2018	down 44.0%	volatile
100	Costa Rica	13,659 number	2019	down 74.0%	falling
101	Belarus	12,686 number	2018	down 38.9%	falling
102	Finland	11,564 number	2018	down 47.5%	falling
103	Hong Kong, China	11,354 number	2018	down 68.6%	falling
104	Bahrain	11,274 number	2019	down 27.4%	rising
105	Vanuatu	10,827 number	2015	down 16.7%	falling
106	Israel	10,153 number	2018	up 19.1%	falling
107	Georgia	9,355 number	2019	down 61.0%	volatile
108	Belize	9,127 number	2019	down 15.6%	flat
109	New Zealand	8,391 number	2018	down 64.9%	volatile
110	Sao Tome and Principe	7,345 number	2015	down 13.7%	falling
111	Sweden	7,025 number	2016	down 82.9%	falling
112	Brunei Darussalam	6,610 number	2019	up 38.1%	falling
113	Luxembourg	6,537 number	2018	up 26.0%	rising
114	Qatar	6,179 number	2010	down 43.6%	rising
115	Portugal	5,326 number	2018	down 91.9%	volatile
116	Latvia	4,185 number	2018	down 47.0%	falling
117	Estonia	2,809 number	2018	down 50.6%	volatile
118	Ireland	2,748 number	2018	down 74.4%	volatile
119	Slovenia	2,529 number	2018	down 72.9%	volatile
120	Macau, China	2,342 number	2019	down 83.9%	falling
121	Samoa	2,320 number	2016	down 42.3%	volatile
122	Tonga	2,309 number	2015	up 8.9%	rising
123	Iceland	2,260 number	2018	down 38.8%	falling
124	Cyprus	2,253 number	2018	up 19.0%	falling
125	Lithuania	2,239 number	2018	down 45.3%	volatile
126	Saint Lucia	2,083 number	2019	down 48.4%	falling
127	Malta	1,878 number	2018	down 35.9%	falling
128	Cayman Islands	1,509 number	2018	up 31.9%	rising
129	Grenada	1,332 number	2005	—	volatile
130	Seychelles	1,169 number	2019	down 45.0%	volatile
131	Barbados	1,155 number	2019	down 49.3%	volatile
132	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	973 number	2018	up 9.0%	volatile
133	Aruba	955 number	2009	up 127.9%	rising
134	British Virgin Islands	815 number	2018	up 342.9%	rising
135	Turks and Caicos Islands	787 number	2018	up 4.0%	volatile
136	Dominica	632 number	2019	down 77.2%	volatile
137	Antigua and Barbuda	496 number	2018	down 21.8%	flat
138	Liechtenstein	256 number	2018	up 9.4%	rising
139	Saint Kitts and Nevis	224 number	2014	down 66.7%	falling

Regions and income groups

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

World 257.04 million number
IDA & IBRD total 251.63 million number
Low & middle income 251.55 million number
Middle income 187.68 million number
Lower middle income 147.74 million number
IDA total 138.24 million number
Early-demographic dividend 134.39 million number
IBRD only 113.52 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 102.40 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 102.40 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 102.38 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 94.32 million number
South Asia 93.45 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 93.45 million number
IDA only 89.35 million number
Least developed countries 86.78 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 75.65 million number
Low income 63.87 million number
IDA blend 48.77 million number
Upper middle income 39.94 million number
East Asia & Pacific 32.80 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 31.19 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 30.66 million number
Late-demographic dividend 23.67 million number
Arab World 20.39 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 11.94 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 11.52 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 11.41 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 10.43 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 10.19 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 10.00 million number
OECD members 8.83 million number
High income 5.49 million number
Europe & Central Asia 5.20 million number
Post-demographic dividend 4.63 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 3.51 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 3.01 million number
European Union 2.21 million number
Small states 1.42 million number
Euro area 1.32 million number

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Indicator: Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, both sexes (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 184 places, 4,255 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026