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

Name: Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, male (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

3.15 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

14 number

Liechtenstein

Median

14,192 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

4,440

What the numbers show

Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, male (number) is currently reported for 148 countries. The highest value is 3.15 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 14 number in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 14,192 number, and the mean is 133,803 number.

Over the past decade 51 countries rose and 85 fell. The largest increase was in Italy (up 3,493.1%), and the largest decrease in Argentina (down 99.7%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	3.15 million number	2015	down 12.2%	falling
2	Indonesia	1.86 million number	2018	down 0.6%	falling
3	Niger	1.15 million number	2017	up 7.0%	rising
4	Mali	972,275 number	2018	up 80.5%	rising
5	Burkina Faso	851,122 number	2019	down 1.7%	falling
6	Philippines	825,925 number	2018	down 17.8%	falling
7	Syrian Arab Republic	687,651 number	2013	up 256.0%	volatile
8	Chad	672,766 number	2019	—	rising
9	South Africa	612,293 number	2018	up 85.3%	falling
10	Mozambique	542,721 number	2015	down 14.7%	falling
11	Côte d'Ivoire	522,576 number	2019	down 40.1%	falling
12	Myanmar	449,001 number	2018	down 63.6%	falling
13	Yemen	438,920 number	2016	up 2.0%	falling
14	Mexico	395,229 number	2018	up 99.8%	falling
15	Cameroon	381,774 number	2016	—	rising
16	Guinea	372,352 number	2014	down 16.1%	falling
17	Kenya	364,751 number	2009	down 67.4%	falling
18	Guatemala	311,296 number	2018	up 81.2%	falling
19	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	292,127 number	2017	up 116.6%	falling
20	Türkiye	283,925 number	2018	up 643.1%	volatile
21	Jordan	257,318 number	2019	up 166.2%	volatile
22	Malawi	234,018 number	2019	up 33.3%	rising
23	Iraq	226,453 number	2007	down 44.7%	rising
24	Burundi	223,704 number	2019	up 12.3%	falling
25	Honduras	207,736 number	2019	down 12.3%	falling
26	Central African Republic	197,852 number	2012	—	rising
27	Egypt	176,854 number	2019	down 72.2%	volatile
28	Eritrea	160,458 number	2018	up 177.8%	falling
29	Colombia	159,221 number	2018	up 10.9%	rising
30	Ghana	155,643 number	2019	down 66.2%	falling
31	Germany	151,384 number	2018	up 53.6%	rising
32	Mauritania	146,531 number	2019	up 20.2%	rising
33	Malaysia	127,897 number	2017	down 28.6%	falling
34	Ukraine	119,074 number	2014	down 13.7%	falling
35	Lao People's Democratic Republic	111,886 number	2019	up 47.6%	falling
36	Cambodia	110,562 number	2015	down 70.6%	volatile
37	Romania	106,088 number	2018	up 252.0%	falling
38	United States of America	103,528 number	2018	down 75.2%	volatile
39	Thailand	100,703 number	2009	—	volatile
40	Morocco	86,056 number	2019	down 76.1%	volatile
41	Togo	81,657 number	2017	down 4.5%	falling
42	El Salvador	80,413 number	2018	—	rising
43	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	79,085 number	2018	up 2,201.0%	volatile
44	Italy	61,190 number	2018	up 3,493.1%	volatile
45	Spain	56,149 number	2018	up 244.5%	volatile
46	Paraguay	55,233 number	2012	up 30.4%	rising
47	Iran, Islamic Republic of	54,411 number	2017	down 73.2%	volatile
48	Ecuador	54,200 number	2018	down 53.4%	falling
49	Tunisia	49,659 number	1985	down 51.8%	falling
50	Nicaragua	45,992 number	2010	down 67.4%	falling
51	Puerto Rico	45,954 number	2018	up 27.9%	rising
52	Panama	43,136 number	2017	up 161.5%	rising
53	Dominican Republic	41,928 number	2019	up 154.5%	volatile
54	Djibouti	39,521 number	2015	down 33.3%	rising
55	Bulgaria	37,789 number	2018	up 189.5%	volatile
56	Jamaica	37,222 number	2019	up 99.9%	rising
57	Poland	35,200 number	2018	down 73.5%	falling
58	Azerbaijan	34,563 number	2019	down 51.3%	volatile
59	Republic of Korea	32,438 number	2018	up 23.0%	volatile
60	Peru	28,513 number	2016	down 57.4%	volatile
61	Namibia	24,260 number	2007	down 31.4%	falling
62	Lesotho	23,628 number	2016	down 33.8%	falling
63	Botswana	22,911 number	2003	up 20.7%	falling
64	Cuba	22,084 number	2019	up 5.6%	volatile
65	Palestine, State of	21,778 number	2019	down 66.4%	falling
66	Republic of Moldova	21,588 number	2019	up 4.6%	rising
67	Chile	19,242 number	2018	down 30.3%	falling
68	Armenia	19,112 number	2019	up 123.3%	rising
69	Australia	18,763 number	2018	up 209.1%	volatile
70	Eswatini	16,360 number	2015	down 12.5%	falling
71	France	15,819 number	2018	down 36.8%	volatile
72	Russian Federation	15,693 number	2018	down 88.1%	volatile
73	Hungary	14,859 number	2018	up 38.3%	volatile
74	Mongolia	14,532 number	2008	down 74.4%	falling
75	Netherlands	13,852 number	2018	—	falling
76	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	12,844 number	2018	down 69.2%	volatile
77	Tajikistan	12,356 number	2011	down 78.6%	volatile
78	Kuwait	12,189 number	2015	down 16.3%	volatile
79	Timor-Leste	11,889 number	2019	down 35.9%	falling
80	Zimbabwe	11,796 number	2013	down 93.5%	volatile
81	Slovakia	11,602 number	2018	down 11.1%	falling
82	Greece	10,815 number	2018	down 38.8%	volatile
83	Bhutan	9,214 number	2018	down 53.3%	falling
84	Suriname	7,939 number	2015	down 18.8%	rising
85	Oman	7,923 number	2019	down 12.2%	volatile
86	Albania	7,778 number	2019	down 34.6%	falling
87	Bahamas	7,354 number	2018	up 137.3%	rising
88	Canada	6,480 number	2018	down 46.1%	volatile
89	Hong Kong, China	5,643 number	2016	—	volatile
90	Serbia	5,219 number	2019	down 22.6%	falling
91	Croatia	4,794 number	2013	down 0.9%	falling
92	Czechia	4,641 number	2018	down 73.4%	volatile
93	Kyrgyzstan	4,628 number	2019	down 84.3%	falling
94	Belarus	4,256 number	2018	down 52.2%	volatile
95	Cape Verde	3,847 number	2018	up 73.8%	falling
96	Kazakhstan	3,727 number	2011	up 262.5%	volatile
97	Belgium	3,654 number	2018	down 66.6%	volatile
98	Bahrain	3,104 number	2019	down 53.7%	volatile
99	Qatar	3,010 number	2019	up 77.0%	volatile
100	Finland	2,799 number	2018	down 45.3%	flat
101	Costa Rica	2,796 number	2019	down 72.1%	volatile
102	Sao Tome and Principe	2,693 number	2015	up 376.6%	rising
103	Mauritius	2,653 number	2019	down 37.1%	volatile
104	New Zealand	2,620 number	2018	down 61.7%	volatile
105	Fiji	2,323 number	2009	down 62.4%	falling
106	Denmark	2,294 number	2018	down 8.2%	falling
107	Vanuatu	2,077 number	2015	up 93.9%	volatile
108	Georgia	1,998 number	2019	down 75.4%	volatile
109	Belize	1,684 number	2019	down 30.9%	flat
110	United Arab Emirates	1,665 number	2017	—	volatile
111	Estonia	1,502 number	2018	up 29.7%	flat
112	Montenegro	1,344 number	2019	—	falling
113	Latvia	1,326 number	2018	up 146.0%	rising
114	Uzbekistan	1,037 number	2019	down 99.3%	falling
115	Sri Lanka	1,032 number	2018	down 98.8%	volatile
116	Ireland	1,031 number	2018	down 49.4%	volatile
117	Uruguay	988 number	2016	down 89.5%	volatile
118	Austria	950 number	2018	down 88.9%	volatile
119	Slovenia	842 number	2018	up 36.5%	volatile
120	Switzerland	839 number	2018	down 90.0%	volatile
121	Maldives	835 number	2019	—	falling
122	Israel	828 number	2015	up 471.0%	volatile
123	Saint Lucia	591 number	2019	down 52.5%	falling
124	Tonga	501 number	2015	down 45.7%	falling
125	Cayman Islands	485 number	2018	up 53.5%	rising
126	Sweden	460 number	2015	down 97.2%	volatile
127	Barbados	387 number	2019	down 58.6%	falling
128	Aruba	367 number	2009	up 256.3%	volatile
129	Luxembourg	355 number	2018	down 55.4%	volatile
129	Portugal	355 number	2018	down 78.5%	volatile
131	Norway	349 number	2017	down 86.2%	volatile
132	Macau, China	319 number	2019	down 91.4%	falling
133	Grenada	304 number	2005	—	volatile
134	Brunei Darussalam	295 number	2018	up 239.1%	volatile
134	Malta	295 number	2016	—	volatile
136	Turks and Caicos Islands	249 number	2018	down 23.6%	volatile
137	British Virgin Islands	232 number	2018	up 603.0%	volatile
138	Argentina	166 number	2017	down 99.7%	volatile
139	Samoa	165 number	2015	down 90.6%	volatile
140	Lithuania	148 number	2013	up 252.4%	volatile
141	Dominica	130 number	2019	down 88.2%	volatile
142	Cyprus	100 number	2018	up 104.1%	volatile
143	Antigua and Barbuda	87 number	2018	down 86.9%	volatile
144	Saint Kitts and Nevis	63 number	2016	up 250.0%	volatile
145	Seychelles	56 number	2005	down 91.0%	volatile
146	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	37 number	2017	down 82.4%	volatile
147	Iceland	24 number	2018	down 94.4%	volatile
148	Liechtenstein	14 number	2018	down 62.2%	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

World 58.45 million number
IDA & IBRD total 57.22 million number
Low & middle income 57.21 million number
Middle income 39.60 million number
IDA total 37.67 million number
Lower middle income 30.44 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 29.56 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 29.56 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 29.55 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 26.55 million number
Early-demographic dividend 25.88 million number
IDA only 24.89 million number
Least developed countries 23.84 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 21.44 million number
IBRD only 19.59 million number
Low income 17.60 million number
South Asia 15.43 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 15.43 million number
IDA blend 12.75 million number
Upper middle income 9.16 million number
East Asia & Pacific 7.84 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 7.52 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 7.36 million number
Arab World 5.49 million number
Late-demographic dividend 4.99 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 2.21 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 2.14 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 2.06 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 2.05 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 2.02 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 2.02 million number
OECD members 1.70 million number
High income 1.24 million number
Europe & Central Asia 1.15 million number
Post-demographic dividend 1.01 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 787,335 number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 643,126 number
European Union 544,809 number
Small states 451,208 number
Other small states 373,697 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 193 places, 4,440 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026