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

Name: Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, female (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

137

Highest

5.48 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

89 number

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median

34,086 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,161

What the numbers show

Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, female (number) is currently reported for 137 countries. The highest value is 5.48 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 89 number in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The median across all reporting countries is 34,086 number, and the mean is 278,666 number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 61,552.

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 97 fell. The largest increase was in British Virgin Islands (up 323.1%), and the largest decrease in Macau, China (down 86.6%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	5.48 million number	2015	down 18.9%	falling
2	Indonesia	3.50 million number	2018	down 28.1%	falling
3	Niger	1.92 million number	2017	up 17.4%	rising
4	Mali	1.55 million number	2018	up 41.6%	rising
5	Chad	1.47 million number	2019	—	rising
6	Yemen	1.35 million number	2016	down 11.6%	falling
7	Côte d'Ivoire	1.28 million number	2019	down 27.3%	falling
8	Mozambique	1.22 million number	2015	down 4.0%	falling
9	Burkina Faso	1.21 million number	2019	down 12.2%	falling
10	Iraq	1.16 million number	2007	down 15.4%	falling
11	Syrian Arab Republic	1.11 million number	2013	up 62.9%	falling
12	Kenya	1.09 million number	2009	down 41.9%	falling
13	Mexico	1.03 million number	2018	down 32.1%	falling
14	Cameroon	1.00 million number	2015	—	rising
15	Myanmar	887,937 number	2018	down 42.8%	falling
16	Guinea	842,734 number	2014	down 3.3%	falling
17	South Africa	797,795 number	2018	up 21.7%	falling
18	Türkiye	775,507 number	2018	down 19.6%	falling
19	Guatemala	666,563 number	2018	up 25.5%	falling
20	Egypt	646,941 number	2019	down 32.5%	falling
21	Iran, Islamic Republic of	560,954 number	2017	down 50.2%	falling
22	Malawi	480,930 number	2019	up 24.7%	rising
23	Cambodia	480,902 number	2008	down 51.2%	falling
24	Philippines	457,457 number	2015	down 49.0%	falling
25	Burundi	385,769 number	2019	down 17.5%	falling
26	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	364,232 number	2017	up 48.4%	falling
27	Morocco	362,544 number	2019	down 64.4%	falling
28	Jordan	349,190 number	2019	up 183.7%	volatile
29	Malaysia	344,140 number	2017	down 8.9%	rising
30	Ghana	342,031 number	2019	down 61.8%	falling
31	Zimbabwe	320,425 number	2013	down 46.6%	falling
32	United States of America	289,900 number	2018	down 66.6%	falling
33	Honduras	287,664 number	2019	down 8.2%	falling
34	Colombia	284,501 number	2018	down 10.6%	falling
35	Germany	272,824 number	2018	up 48.9%	rising
36	Eritrea	249,653 number	2018	up 27.6%	flat
37	Lao People's Democratic Republic	211,971 number	2019	down 9.5%	falling
38	Mauritania	197,743 number	2019	up 2.0%	rising
39	Peru	183,357 number	2018	up 50.7%	volatile
40	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	173,673 number	2018	up 144.6%	rising
41	Uzbekistan	156,663 number	2019	down 60.2%	falling
42	El Salvador	140,332 number	2018	up 45.3%	falling
43	Italy	132,984 number	2018	up 37.1%	falling
44	Paraguay	132,093 number	2012	up 17.4%	rising
45	Tajikistan	128,925 number	2011	down 40.6%	falling
46	Ukraine	106,880 number	2014	down 17.5%	flat
47	Ecuador	102,785 number	2018	down 63.6%	falling
48	Dominican Republic	96,476 number	2019	down 44.4%	falling
49	Panama	84,306 number	2017	up 65.1%	rising
50	Argentina	80,216 number	2017	down 46.6%	volatile
51	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	79,306 number	2018	down 49.1%	volatile
52	Nicaragua	69,639 number	2010	down 58.0%	falling
53	Korea	63,511 number	2018	down 34.5%	falling
54	France	61,569 number	2018	down 34.2%	volatile
55	Poland	56,238 number	2018	down 69.0%	falling
56	Bulgaria	53,221 number	2018	up 9.7%	falling
57	Cuba	50,284 number	2019	down 9.4%	volatile
58	Chile	49,020 number	2018	down 49.4%	falling
59	Spain	47,917 number	2018	down 12.2%	volatile
60	Djibouti	47,111 number	2015	down 47.8%	falling
61	Jamaica	45,264 number	2019	up 64.1%	rising
62	Puerto Rico	43,799 number	2018	down 9.6%	flat
63	Canada	42,612 number	2018	down 53.8%	falling
64	Palestine, State of	37,704 number	2019	down 46.9%	falling
65	Australia	37,700 number	2018	—	volatile
66	Hungary	36,971 number	2018	up 13.4%	falling
67	Republic of Moldova	35,710 number	2019	down 10.0%	falling
68	Switzerland	35,622 number	2018	down 17.7%	falling
69	Kyrgyzstan	34,086 number	2019	down 43.8%	falling
70	Namibia	32,276 number	2007	down 21.0%	falling
71	Lesotho	28,565 number	2016	down 27.3%	falling
72	United Arab Emirates	24,585 number	2017	—	flat
73	Azerbaijan	23,079 number	2019	down 56.8%	falling
74	Slovakia	22,322 number	2018	down 17.9%	falling
75	Botswana	22,310 number	2003	down 33.2%	falling
76	Eswatini	22,280 number	2015	down 24.5%	falling
77	Greece	20,784 number	2018	down 59.0%	falling
78	Serbia	20,408 number	2019	down 33.3%	falling
79	Mongolia	17,563 number	2006	down 70.6%	falling
80	Timor-Leste	16,667 number	2019	down 54.7%	falling
81	Oman	15,880 number	2018	down 41.3%	volatile
82	Austria	15,869 number	2018	down 33.4%	falling
83	Kuwait	14,048 number	2015	up 18.9%	falling
84	Denmark	11,274 number	2018	down 21.1%	falling
85	Bahamas	9,826 number	2018	up 168.2%	rising
86	Croatia	9,761 number	2018	down 24.7%	volatile
87	Albania	9,685 number	2019	down 55.4%	volatile
88	Suriname	9,612 number	2015	down 28.2%	falling
89	Czechia	8,441 number	2018	down 67.1%	volatile
90	Bhutan	8,068 number	2018	down 67.8%	volatile
91	Cape Verde	7,782 number	2018	up 0.6%	falling
92	Norway	7,674 number	2018	up 15.9%	rising
93	Mauritius	7,254 number	2019	down 32.7%	falling
94	Belgium	6,465 number	2018	down 43.2%	volatile
95	Uruguay	6,276 number	2017	down 75.5%	falling
96	Belarus	6,174 number	2018	down 40.9%	falling
97	Finland	6,134 number	2018	down 42.8%	falling
98	Netherlands	5,804 number	2018	—	falling
99	Hong Kong, China	5,681 number	2017	down 64.5%	falling
100	Vanuatu	5,479 number	2015	down 21.2%	falling
101	Costa Rica	5,401 number	2019	down 77.8%	volatile
102	Fiji	5,119 number	2012	down 45.0%	falling
103	Portugal	4,971 number	2018	down 82.1%	volatile
104	Belize	4,428 number	2019	down 16.8%	flat
105	Sweden	4,308 number	2015	down 79.7%	rising
106	Sao Tome and Principe	3,484 number	2015	down 21.1%	falling
107	Bahrain	3,173 number	2019	down 57.3%	volatile
108	Qatar	3,157 number	2010	down 23.1%	rising
109	Luxembourg	3,091 number	2018	up 38.2%	rising
110	Brunei Darussalam	2,650 number	2019	up 15.2%	volatile
111	Georgia	2,382 number	2019	down 46.4%	volatile
112	New Zealand	2,080 number	2018	down 77.0%	volatile
113	Latvia	1,529 number	2018	down 56.3%	falling
114	Cyprus	1,343 number	2018	up 122.0%	volatile
115	Estonia	1,177 number	2018	down 36.0%	volatile
116	Macau, China	976 number	2019	down 86.6%	falling
117	Iceland	953 number	2018	down 40.2%	falling
118	Saint Lucia	944 number	2019	down 48.1%	volatile
119	Tonga	888 number	2015	down 1.3%	flat
120	Slovenia	843 number	2018	down 78.9%	volatile
121	Cayman Islands	748 number	2018	up 29.2%	rising
122	Malta	737 number	2018	down 41.4%	volatile
123	Grenada	676 number	2005	—	volatile
124	Lithuania	620 number	2018	up 13.1%	volatile
125	Ireland	594 number	2018	down 80.5%	volatile
126	Barbados	475 number	2019	down 54.5%	volatile
127	Samoa	449 number	2016	down 64.4%	volatile
128	Israel	430 number	2015	down 41.7%	volatile
129	British Virgin Islands	385 number	2018	up 323.1%	volatile
130	Turks and Caicos Islands	363 number	2018	up 12.7%	volatile
131	Aruba	323 number	2009	up 116.8%	rising
132	Dominica	303 number	2019	down 71.6%	volatile
133	Seychelles	301 number	2019	down 67.4%	volatile
134	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	290 number	2017	down 44.2%	volatile
135	Antigua and Barbuda	208 number	2018	down 63.1%	falling
136	Liechtenstein	182 number	2018	up 1.7%	rising
137	Saint Kitts and Nevis	89 number	2013	up 29.0%	rising

Regions and income groups

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

World 127.72 million number
IDA & IBRD total 125.15 million number
Low & middle income 125.09 million number
Middle income 90.47 million number
IDA total 72.86 million number
Lower middle income 72.62 million number
Early-demographic dividend 64.90 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 54.39 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 54.39 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 54.38 million number
IBRD only 52.35 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 51.16 million number
IDA only 46.30 million number
Least developed countries 45.38 million number
South Asia 45.07 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 45.07 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 40.44 million number
Low income 34.62 million number
IDA blend 26.51 million number
Upper middle income 17.85 million number
East Asia & Pacific 13.84 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 13.09 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 12.84 million number
Arab World 10.89 million number
Late-demographic dividend 9.46 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 6.61 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 6.39 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 6.35 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 4.85 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 4.75 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 4.65 million number
OECD members 4.15 million number
High income 2.63 million number
Europe & Central Asia 2.54 million number
Post-demographic dividend 2.19 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.75 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.51 million number
European Union 1.04 million number
Small states 678,364 number
Euro area 612,402 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age, female (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 182 places, 4,161 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026