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

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

Number of children and adolescents of primary and lower 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

148

Highest

3.79 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

10 number

Ireland

Median

13,748 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,451

What the numbers show

Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, female (number) is currently reported for 148 countries. The highest value is 3.79 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 10 number in Ireland.

The median across all reporting countries is 13,748 number, and the mean is 150,066 number.

Over the past decade 47 countries rose and 89 fell. The largest increase was in Bolivia, Plurinational State of (up 9,134.7%), and the largest decrease in Sweden (down 99.9%).

Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	3.79 million number	2015	down 18.6%	falling
2	Indonesia	2.00 million number	2018	down 0.5%	volatile
3	Niger	1.37 million number	2017	up 9.3%	rising
4	Mali	1.09 million number	2018	up 46.1%	rising
5	Chad	1.03 million number	2019	—	rising
6	Burkina Faso	798,518 number	2019	down 18.6%	falling
7	Mozambique	778,675 number	2015	down 16.5%	falling
8	Yemen	754,210 number	2016	down 17.5%	falling
9	Côte d'Ivoire	745,342 number	2019	down 38.5%	falling
10	Syrian Arab Republic	693,609 number	2013	up 156.1%	falling
11	Iraq	647,239 number	2007	down 17.2%	rising
12	Cameroon	618,568 number	2016	—	rising
13	Philippines	572,187 number	2018	down 17.5%	falling
14	Guinea	569,032 number	2014	down 9.9%	flat
15	South Africa	514,793 number	2018	up 120.9%	falling
16	Myanmar	490,976 number	2018	down 48.3%	falling
17	Kenya	434,950 number	2009	down 58.5%	falling
18	Guatemala	320,936 number	2018	up 42.1%	falling
19	Türkiye	317,037 number	2018	up 29.7%	volatile
20	Central African Republic	297,847 number	2012	—	rising
21	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	265,200 number	2017	up 189.8%	falling
22	Jordan	261,202 number	2019	up 222.4%	volatile
23	Mexico	225,315 number	2018	up 28.9%	volatile
24	Tunisia	187,572 number	1985	down 35.5%	falling
25	Honduras	177,709 number	2019	down 15.5%	falling
26	Eritrea	176,553 number	2018	up 97.6%	flat
27	Burundi	173,812 number	2019	down 22.0%	falling
28	Malawi	166,620 number	2019	up 11.7%	falling
29	Togo	160,746 number	2017	down 19.9%	falling
30	Iran, Islamic Republic of	119,892 number	2017	down 58.9%	falling
31	Mauritania	119,791 number	2019	up 5.0%	rising
32	Colombia	117,716 number	2018	up 24.6%	rising
33	Lao People's Democratic Republic	115,480 number	2019	up 4.6%	falling
34	Romania	103,235 number	2018	up 238.0%	falling
35	Morocco	100,912 number	2019	down 80.2%	volatile
36	Thailand	96,749 number	2009	—	volatile
37	Cambodia	91,546 number	2015	down 76.2%	volatile
38	Ukraine	88,651 number	2014	down 31.6%	falling
39	Malaysia	88,361 number	2017	down 29.9%	volatile
40	Ghana	87,894 number	2019	down 80.1%	falling
41	Germany	83,231 number	2018	down 18.0%	rising
42	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	78,680 number	2018	up 9,134.7%	volatile
43	United States of America	76,669 number	2018	down 72.2%	volatile
44	El Salvador	75,550 number	2018	—	rising
45	Paraguay	72,432 number	2012	up 73.2%	rising
46	Italy	63,301 number	2018	up 1,870.8%	volatile
47	Tajikistan	47,560 number	2011	down 62.5%	falling
48	Uzbekistan	46,229 number	2019	down 69.0%	falling
49	Egypt	41,660 number	2019	down 94.6%	volatile
50	Panama	41,533 number	2017	up 132.3%	rising
51	Spain	40,830 number	2018	up 446.4%	volatile
52	Peru	37,593 number	2016	up 14.3%	volatile
53	Poland	37,012 number	2018	down 69.8%	falling
54	Bulgaria	36,586 number	2018	up 139.0%	rising
55	Dominican Republic	36,483 number	2019	down 45.7%	falling
56	Puerto Rico	35,635 number	2018	up 52.8%	rising
57	Jamaica	34,770 number	2019	up 134.5%	volatile
58	Republic of Korea	31,090 number	2018	down 17.3%	volatile
59	Djibouti	30,531 number	2015	down 54.5%	rising
60	Nicaragua	28,855 number	2010	down 73.4%	volatile
61	Chile	26,216 number	2018	down 29.9%	falling
62	Republic of Moldova	23,320 number	2019	up 8.0%	rising
63	Azerbaijan	22,226 number	2019	down 70.4%	volatile
64	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	21,989 number	2018	down 44.8%	volatile
65	Cuba	21,894 number	2019	up 2.6%	volatile
66	Australia	20,316 number	2018	up 839.7%	volatile
67	Argentina	18,743 number	2017	up 111.1%	volatile
68	Eswatini	17,634 number	2015	down 18.9%	falling
69	Lesotho	15,942 number	2016	down 30.3%	falling
70	Botswana	15,685 number	2003	up 72.8%	falling
71	Ecuador	15,074 number	2018	down 85.0%	volatile
72	Armenia	15,060 number	2019	up 88.2%	rising
73	Hungary	14,562 number	2018	up 24.1%	volatile
74	Zimbabwe	14,227 number	2013	down 92.7%	volatile
75	France	13,270 number	2018	down 36.1%	volatile
76	Namibia	12,713 number	2007	down 51.7%	falling
77	Slovakia	11,100 number	2018	down 12.9%	falling
78	Greece	11,089 number	2018	down 62.2%	volatile
79	Russian Federation	10,839 number	2018	down 85.5%	volatile
80	Sri Lanka	10,082 number	2018	down 89.0%	volatile
81	Palestine, State of	10,068 number	2019	down 81.5%	falling
82	Mongolia	9,784 number	2008	down 73.0%	volatile
83	Kyrgyzstan	9,110 number	2019	down 69.3%	falling
84	Bahamas	6,859 number	2018	up 115.1%	rising
85	Timor-Leste	6,677 number	2019	down 69.3%	falling
86	Oman	6,436 number	2019	up 8.5%	volatile
87	Belarus	6,174 number	2018	up 116.2%	rising
88	Netherlands	5,804 number	2018	—	falling
89	United Arab Emirates	5,636 number	2017	—	falling
90	Serbia	5,389 number	2019	down 34.0%	volatile
91	Canada	5,025 number	2018	up 41.4%	volatile
92	Bhutan	4,934 number	2018	down 71.7%	volatile
93	Suriname	4,758 number	2015	down 37.2%	rising
94	Cape Verde	4,252 number	2018	up 84.3%	falling
95	Kuwait	3,261 number	2015	up 210.9%	volatile
96	Czechia	3,123 number	2018	down 85.0%	volatile
97	Qatar	3,112 number	2019	up 26.3%	volatile
98	Belgium	2,664 number	2018	down 76.6%	falling
99	Sao Tome and Principe	2,511 number	2015	up 171.2%	rising
100	Kazakhstan	2,483 number	2011	up 6.2%	volatile
101	Portugal	2,425 number	2018	down 18.0%	volatile
102	Finland	2,205 number	2018	down 57.4%	falling
103	Vanuatu	1,988 number	2015	down 3.3%	volatile
104	Switzerland	1,951 number	2018	down 69.0%	volatile
105	Costa Rica	1,843 number	2019	down 81.8%	volatile
106	Bahrain	1,687 number	2019	down 67.7%	volatile
107	Denmark	1,665 number	2018	up 10.7%	volatile
108	Belize	1,657 number	2019	down 35.9%	rising
109	Maldives	1,559 number	2019	—	rising
110	New Zealand	1,378 number	2018	down 70.6%	rising
111	Norway	1,321 number	2017	down 26.4%	volatile
112	Montenegro	1,091 number	2019	—	rising
113	Hong Kong, China	1,068 number	2016	—	volatile
114	Mauritius	924 number	2019	down 63.9%	volatile
115	Estonia	897 number	2018	down 22.0%	volatile
116	Albania	885 number	2019	down 88.8%	volatile
117	Croatia	849 number	2013	down 84.7%	volatile
118	Luxembourg	841 number	2018	up 105.1%	volatile
119	Latvia	592 number	2018	down 0.8%	rising
120	Cayman Islands	481 number	2018	up 25.3%	rising
121	Israel	430 number	2015	down 73.9%	volatile
122	Grenada	387 number	2005	—	volatile
123	Saint Lucia	378 number	2019	down 69.7%	volatile
124	Barbados	376 number	2019	down 52.0%	falling
125	Slovenia	337 number	2018	down 47.6%	volatile
126	Macau, China	330 number	2019	down 90.7%	volatile
127	Cyprus	302 number	2018	up 32.5%	volatile
128	Fiji	293 number	2009	down 90.1%	volatile
129	Austria	238 number	2018	down 97.3%	volatile
130	Tonga	228 number	2015	down 74.4%	volatile
131	British Virgin Islands	227 number	2018	up 260.3%	volatile
132	Aruba	154 number	2009	up 266.7%	rising
132	Turks and Caicos Islands	154 number	2018	down 35.0%	volatile
134	Dominica	134 number	2019	down 78.7%	volatile
135	Uruguay	122 number	2016	down 98.6%	volatile
136	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	58 number	2017	down 68.0%	volatile
137	Seychelles	57 number	2005	down 86.9%	volatile
138	Saint Kitts and Nevis	54 number	2016	up 145.5%	volatile
139	Liechtenstein	50 number	2018	down 27.5%	volatile
140	Brunei Darussalam	41 number	2018	down 91.8%	volatile
141	Antigua and Barbuda	39 number	2018	down 80.8%	volatile
141	Georgia	39 number	2019	down 99.1%	volatile
141	Samoa	39 number	2015	down 96.0%	volatile
144	Malta	35 number	2016	—	volatile
145	Lithuania	24 number	2013	down 98.2%	volatile
146	Iceland	19 number	2018	down 92.5%	volatile
147	Sweden	17 number	2015	down 99.9%	volatile
148	Ireland	10 number	2018	down 97.2%	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

World 61.11 million number
IDA & IBRD total 60.00 million number
Low & middle income 59.96 million number
IDA total 42.99 million number
Middle income 38.69 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 33.92 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 33.92 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 33.92 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 32.07 million number
Lower middle income 29.60 million number
IDA only 26.85 million number
Least developed countries 26.54 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 24.88 million number
Early-demographic dividend 23.73 million number
Low income 21.26 million number
IBRD only 17.04 million number
IDA blend 16.11 million number
South Asia 13.90 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 13.90 million number
Upper middle income 9.09 million number
East Asia & Pacific 7.12 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 6.79 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 6.65 million number
Arab World 6.41 million number
Late-demographic dividend 4.37 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 3.02 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 2.90 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 2.89 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 1.87 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.81 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 1.76 million number
OECD members 1.49 million number
High income 1.15 million number
Europe & Central Asia 1.11 million number
Post-demographic dividend 934,880 number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 818,875 number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 677,558 number
European Union 466,272 number
Small states 415,043 number
Other small states 343,344 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, female (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 193 places, 4,451 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026