Statizoid

Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry age, male (number) by country

Number of children one year before primary entry age who are not enrolled or attending pre-primary education during in a given academic year. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/

Countries reporting
131
Highest
872,463 number
Ethiopia
Lowest
0 number
Uruguay
Median
3,583 number
Years covered
24
1997–2020
Data points
2,347

What the numbers show

Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry age, male (number) is currently reported for 131 countries. The highest value is 872,463 number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 0 number in Uruguay.

The median across all reporting countries is 3,583 number, and the mean is 53,727 number.

Over the past decade 46 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Romania (up 2,812.8%), and the largest decrease in United Arab Emirates (down 100.0%).

Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ethiopia 872,463 number 2015 down 27.3% falling
2 Egypt 806,829 number 2019 up 34.6% flat
3 Tanzania, United Republic of 385,754 number 2019 down 15.8% falling
4 Iraq 340,565 number 2007 up 5.2% rising
5 Kenya 337,953 number 2009 up 24.3% rising
6 Iran, Islamic Republic of 332,827 number 2016 down 22.7% falling
7 Niger 298,741 number 2019 up 37.0% rising
8 Côte d'Ivoire 286,481 number 2019 up 11.2% rising
9 Burkina Faso 255,914 number 2019 up 62.3% rising
10 Chad 218,834 number 2019 — flat
11 Cameroon 211,658 number 2019 up 12.8% rising
12 Senegal 209,005 number 2019 up 29.7% rising
13 Indonesia 197,702 number 2018 up 670.6% volatile
14 Philippines 190,257 number 2018 down 72.9% falling
15 Uzbekistan 178,301 number 2019 up 3.5% rising
16 Mali 166,230 number 2018 up 51.9% rising
17 Türkiye 161,531 number 2018 down 7.8% flat
18 Saudi Arabia 156,889 number 2019 down 38.6% falling
19 Syrian Arab Republic 153,816 number 2013 up 47.2% rising
20 Brazil 130,971 number 2011 down 58.2% falling
21 Morocco 110,965 number 2019 up 14.7% rising
22 Guinea 99,284 number 2016 down 18.1% falling
23 Tajikistan 95,432 number 2017 up 23.2% rising
24 Russian Federation 83,688 number 2018 up 3.2% falling
25 Jordan 65,827 number 2019 up 103.3% rising
26 Sierra Leone 62,949 number 2019 down 0.2% flat
27 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 41,086 number 2017 up 9.6% falling
28 Eritrea 38,136 number 2018 up 67.4% rising
29 Guatemala 33,380 number 2019 up 18.5% falling
30 Azerbaijan 29,100 number 2019 down 44.6% falling
31 Algeria 26,916 number 2010 down 91.0% falling
32 Nepal 24,791 number 2019 down 65.1% falling
33 Lao People's Democratic Republic 24,746 number 2019 down 47.5% falling
34 Palestine, State of 24,355 number 2019 down 27.2% falling
35 Honduras 24,300 number 2019 down 18.3% falling
36 Kazakhstan 22,430 number 2019 up 1,035.1% volatile
37 Australia 22,277 number 2018 down 64.7% falling
38 Mexico 20,429 number 2018 up 160.3% volatile
39 Botswana 20,377 number 2015 up 10.6% flat
40 Romania 18,729 number 2018 up 2,812.8% volatile
41 Italy 17,231 number 2018 — volatile
42 Spain 12,949 number 2018 up 510.2% volatile
43 Ecuador 12,811 number 2018 up 8.0% volatile
44 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 12,336 number 2018 down 76.0% falling
45 El Salvador 10,886 number 2018 down 24.7% falling
46 Chile 10,400 number 2018 down 44.7% falling
47 Panama 9,886 number 2017 up 61.1% falling
48 Argentina 9,406 number 2017 down 33.3% falling
49 Poland 8,990 number 2018 down 14.0% volatile
50 Djibouti 8,549 number 2020 down 10.9% falling
51 Kyrgyzstan 8,273 number 2019 down 64.5% falling
52 Timor-Leste 8,132 number 2019 up 5.9% rising
53 Bulgaria 7,041 number 2018 up 2,388.0% volatile
54 Kuwait 6,985 number 2018 up 245.4% rising
55 Dominican Republic 6,762 number 2019 down 62.7% falling
56 Oman 6,134 number 2019 down 34.1% falling
57 North Macedonia 6,064 number 2018 down 27.6% rising
58 Hungary 5,862 number 2018 up 1,519.3% volatile
59 Czechia 5,837 number 2018 — volatile
60 Colombia 5,687 number 2018 down 91.8% falling
61 Germany 4,891 number 2018 down 80.2% volatile
62 Thailand 4,784 number 2019 down 26.0% volatile
63 Slovakia 4,472 number 2018 down 3.4% falling
64 Togo 3,698 number 2019 down 93.6% volatile
65 Bahrain 3,614 number 2019 up 79.1% falling
66 Malaysia 3,583 number 2015 down 95.5% volatile
67 Republic of Korea 3,348 number 2018 down 97.8% volatile
68 Serbia 3,122 number 2019 — volatile
69 Greece 3,055 number 2018 down 75.4% volatile
70 Portugal 2,499 number 2018 up 68.6% volatile
71 Albania 2,311 number 2015 down 80.5% volatile
72 Mongolia 2,202 number 2018 up 11.2% rising
73 Belgium 2,019 number 2018 up 86.8% volatile
74 Jamaica 1,976 number 2019 — volatile
75 Bahamas 1,763 number 2018 down 7.6% falling
76 New Zealand 1,759 number 2018 — falling
77 Samoa 1,723 number 2019 down 11.3% falling
78 France 1,667 number 2018 down 41.6% volatile
79 Costa Rica 1,548 number 2019 down 32.8% flat
80 Hong Kong, China 1,497 number 2019 up 79.7% rising
81 Sao Tome and Principe 1,480 number 2015 up 35.2% rising
82 Cuba 1,374 number 2019 — volatile
83 Qatar 1,323 number 2019 down 15.1% falling
84 Croatia 1,169 number 2018 down 69.2% volatile
85 Cape Verde 1,039 number 2018 up 10.8% falling
86 Norway 1,034 number 2018 down 51.5% volatile
87 Republic of Moldova 975 number 2019 down 45.6% falling
88 Netherlands 969 number 2018 down 86.6% volatile
89 Estonia 923 number 2018 up 31.3% rising
90 Montenegro 871 number 2019 down 58.7% falling
91 Belize 706 number 2019 down 17.2% falling
92 Ireland 699 number 2018 — volatile
93 Trinidad and Tobago 687 number 2007 down 80.1% volatile
94 Suriname 666 number 2019 down 28.9% falling
95 Finland 636 number 2018 up 2,255.6% volatile
96 Mauritius 632 number 2019 down 38.6% volatile
97 Brunei Darussalam 607 number 2019 up 649.4% volatile
98 Slovenia 584 number 2018 down 7.7% volatile
99 Denmark 560 number 2018 down 85.1% volatile
100 Israel 466 number 2018 down 53.5% volatile
101 Lithuania 399 number 2018 up 7.0% volatile
102 Barbados 381 number 2011 down 15.0% volatile
103 Macau, China 327 number 2019 up 6.5% falling
104 Maldives 323 number 2019 down 21.2% volatile
105 Guyana 288 number 2012 down 60.1% falling
106 Belarus 282 number 2018 down 79.4% volatile
107 Latvia 209 number 2018 — volatile
108 Sweden 201 number 2018 — volatile
109 Austria 164 number 2018 down 88.6% volatile
110 Antigua and Barbuda 99 number 2018 — volatile
111 Dominica 90 number 2019 down 19.6% rising
112 Iceland 89 number 2018 up 17.1% volatile
113 Grenada 84 number 2017 — volatile
114 Seychelles 77 number 2019 up 755.6% volatile
115 Cyprus 57 number 2018 up 533.3% volatile
116 Saint Lucia 52 number 2019 down 75.0% volatile
117 Turks and Caicos Islands 47 number 2018 down 17.5% volatile
118 Luxembourg 25 number 2018 down 87.7% volatile
119 British Virgin Islands 13 number 2018 up 116.7% volatile
120 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 9 number 2018 — volatile
121 Aruba 0 number 2013 — volatile
121 United Arab Emirates 0 number 2017 down 100.0% volatile
121 Switzerland 0 number 2018 down 100.0% volatile
121 Cayman Islands 0 number 2018 down 100.0% volatile
121 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0 number 2018 down 100.0% volatile
121 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 number 2016 down 100.0% volatile
121 Liechtenstein 0 number 2016 down 100.0% volatile
121 Malta 0 number 2018 — volatile
121 Peru 0 number 2019 down 100.0% volatile
121 San Marino 0 number 2019 — volatile
121 Uruguay 0 number 2018 down 100.0% volatile

Regions and income groups

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

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry by country. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 03 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/out-of-school-children-one-year-younger-than-official-primary-entry-age-male-number/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/out-of-school-children-one-year-younger-than-official-primary-entry-age-male-number/">Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Out-of-school children, one year younger than official primary entry age, male (number)
Unit
number
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
174 places, 2,347 data points, 1997–2020
Last refreshed

Number of children one year before primary entry age who are not enrolled or attending pre-primary education during in a given academic year. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/