Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, female (number) by country

Name: Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, female (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Total number of upper secondary school age female youth who are not enrolled in upper secondary education.

Countries reporting

143

Highest

4.95 million number

Pakistan

Lowest

43 number

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median

16,635 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

3,019

What the numbers show

Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, female (number) is currently reported for 143 countries. The highest value is 4.95 million number in Pakistan; the lowest is 43 number in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The median across all reporting countries is 16,635 number, and the mean is 182,056 number.

Over the past decade 37 countries rose and 99 fell. The largest increase was in Tonga (up 5,900.0%), and the largest decrease in Hong Kong (down 99.0%).

Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Pakistan	4.95 million number	2016	down 14.5%	falling
2	Bangladesh	2.20 million number	2018	down 41.2%	falling
3	Ethiopia	1.69 million number	2015	up 29.9%	rising
4	Indonesia	1.50 million number	2018	down 47.5%	falling
5	Afghanistan	885,623 number	2018	up 18.9%	rising
6	Mexico	806,971 number	2018	down 40.0%	falling
7	Kenya	651,120 number	2009	down 20.8%	falling
8	Brazil	631,349 number	2011	down 12.7%	falling
9	Egypt	605,281 number	2019	down 16.2%	falling
10	Yemen	599,643 number	2016	down 2.8%	rising
11	Niger	550,333 number	2017	up 43.7%	rising
12	Cote d'Ivoire	538,978 number	2019	down 3.1%	flat
13	Iraq	509,145 number	2007	down 13.0%	falling
14	Mali	463,370 number	2018	up 33.9%	rising
15	Turkey	458,470 number	2018	down 36.4%	falling
16	Chad	442,563 number	2019	—	rising
17	Mozambique	442,290 number	2015	up 30.4%	falling
18	Iran	441,062 number	2017	down 47.1%	falling
19	Cameroon	418,254 number	2015	—	rising
20	Burkina Faso	415,222 number	2019	up 3.5%	rising
21	Syria	413,983 number	2013	up 1.2%	falling
22	Myanmar	396,961 number	2018	down 34.1%	falling
23	Guatemala	345,627 number	2018	up 13.2%	rising
24	Malawi	314,310 number	2019	up 32.8%	rising
25	Zimbabwe	306,198 number	2013	down 24.7%	falling
26	Cambodia	295,642 number	2008	down 10.7%	falling
27	Thailand	294,941 number	2015	down 62.1%	falling
28	South Africa	283,002 number	2018	down 33.1%	falling
29	Guinea	273,702 number	2014	up 14.3%	rising
30	Morocco	261,632 number	2019	down 48.7%	falling
31	Malaysia	255,779 number	2017	up 1.7%	rising
32	Ghana	254,137 number	2019	down 43.9%	falling
33	United States	213,231 number	2018	down 64.0%	falling
34	Burundi	211,957 number	2019	down 13.4%	falling
35	Germany	189,593 number	2018	up 132.0%	rising
36	Philippines	171,096 number	2015	down 23.6%	rising
37	Colombia	166,785 number	2018	down 25.5%	falling
38	Uzbekistan	110,434 number	2019	down 55.2%	falling
39	Honduras	109,955 number	2019	up 6.9%	falling
40	Venezuela	99,032 number	2017	down 35.7%	falling
41	Laos	96,491 number	2019	down 22.1%	falling
42	Bolivia	94,993 number	2018	up 35.4%	flat
43	Jordan	87,988 number	2019	up 109.2%	rising
44	Ecuador	87,711 number	2018	down 51.9%	falling
45	Tajikistan	81,365 number	2011	down 9.6%	falling
46	Mauritania	77,952 number	2019	down 2.4%	rising
47	Romania	73,555 number	2018	—	flat
48	Eritrea	73,100 number	2018	down 31.2%	flat
49	Italy	69,683 number	2018	down 5.2%	volatile
50	El Salvador	64,782 number	2018	down 14.6%	falling
51	Argentina	61,473 number	2017	down 56.5%	falling
52	Paraguay	60,087 number	2016	down 20.6%	falling
53	Dominican Republic	59,993 number	2019	down 43.5%	falling
54	United Kingdom	57,317 number	2018	down 50.6%	volatile
55	Peru	56,517 number	2019	down 46.4%	falling
56	France	48,299 number	2018	down 33.7%	falling
57	Panama	42,773 number	2017	up 28.9%	rising
58	Nicaragua	40,784 number	2010	down 28.8%	falling
59	Canada	37,587 number	2018	down 57.6%	falling
60	Switzerland	33,671 number	2018	down 15.0%	falling
61	South Korea	32,421 number	2018	down 45.4%	volatile
62	Cuba	28,390 number	2019	down 17.0%	volatile
63	Palestine	27,636 number	2019	up 66.9%	flat
64	Kyrgyzstan	24,976 number	2019	down 17.7%	rising
65	Chile	22,804 number	2018	down 61.7%	falling
66	Hungary	22,409 number	2018	up 7.4%	volatile
67	Namibia	19,563 number	2007	up 34.8%	rising
68	Poland	19,226 number	2018	down 67.2%	falling
69	United Arab Emirates	18,949 number	2017	—	rising
70	Ukraine	18,229 number	2014	up 23.0%	volatile
71	Australia	17,384 number	2018	—	volatile
72	Bulgaria	16,635 number	2018	down 49.9%	falling
73	Djibouti	16,580 number	2015	down 28.3%	falling
74	Austria	15,631 number	2018	up 3.3%	flat
75	Serbia	15,019 number	2019	down 33.0%	falling
76	Lesotho	12,623 number	2016	down 23.1%	falling
77	Moldova	12,390 number	2019	down 31.5%	falling
78	Slovakia	11,222 number	2018	down 22.3%	falling
79	Kuwait	10,787 number	2015	up 480.9%	rising
80	Jamaica	10,494 number	2019	down 15.7%	falling
81	East Timor	9,990 number	2019	down 33.5%	falling
82	Mongolia	9,921 number	2006	down 57.8%	falling
83	Croatia	9,761 number	2018	down 16.8%	volatile
84	Greece	9,695 number	2018	down 54.6%	volatile
85	Denmark	9,609 number	2018	down 24.8%	falling
86	Albania	8,800 number	2019	down 36.2%	volatile
87	Puerto Rico	8,164 number	2018	down 67.5%	falling
88	Oman	7,780 number	2018	down 43.6%	volatile
89	Spain	7,087 number	2018	down 85.0%	volatile
90	Norway	6,710 number	2018	up 52.1%	rising
91	Botswana	6,625 number	2003	down 47.6%	falling
92	Mauritius	6,330 number	2019	down 23.0%	falling
93	Uruguay	6,276 number	2017	down 62.9%	falling
94	Portugal	6,034 number	2013	down 81.6%	volatile
95	Czechia	5,318 number	2018	up 3.5%	volatile
96	Fiji	5,119 number	2012	down 44.9%	falling
97	Suriname	4,854 number	2015	down 16.5%	flat
98	Eswatini	4,646 number	2015	down 40.3%	falling
99	Guyana	4,485 number	2012	—	falling
100	Sweden	4,291 number	2015	down 24.2%	volatile
101	Finland	3,929 number	2018	down 29.3%	falling
102	Belgium	3,801 number	2018	up 44.5%	volatile
103	Belarus	3,784 number	2014	—	falling
104	Costa Rica	3,558 number	2019	down 75.1%	falling
105	Cape Verde	3,530 number	2018	down 35.0%	falling
106	Vanuatu	3,491 number	2015	down 28.8%	falling
107	Bhutan	3,134 number	2018	down 58.9%	falling
108	Bahamas	2,967 number	2018	up 525.9%	volatile
109	Belize	2,771 number	2019	up 1.4%	flat
110	Brunei	2,650 number	2019	up 23.7%	rising
111	Georgia	2,343 number	2019	down 36.5%	volatile
112	Luxembourg	2,250 number	2018	up 23.2%	rising
113	Armenia	1,721 number	2019	down 68.5%	falling
114	Netherlands	1,669 number	2015	down 90.3%	falling
115	Qatar	1,613 number	2010	down 45.0%	rising
116	Bahrain	1,486 number	2019	down 40.6%	falling
117	Cyprus	1,041 number	2018	up 176.1%	falling
118	Sao Tome and Principe	973 number	2015	down 72.1%	falling
119	Latvia	937 number	2018	down 73.2%	volatile
120	Iceland	934 number	2018	down 30.3%	falling
121	New Zealand	702 number	2018	down 83.9%	volatile
122	Tonga	660 number	2015	up 5,900.0%	volatile
123	Macao	646 number	2019	down 82.6%	falling
124	Malta	635 number	2018	down 66.7%	falling
125	Lithuania	620 number	2018	down 34.4%	volatile
126	Ireland	584 number	2018	down 78.3%	volatile
127	Saint Lucia	566 number	2019	down 5.0%	falling
128	Hong Kong	543 number	2019	down 99.0%	volatile
129	Slovenia	506 number	2018	down 84.9%	volatile
130	Samoa	444 number	2016	down 62.6%	volatile
131	Seychelles	301 number	2019	down 71.1%	volatile
132	Estonia	280 number	2018	down 59.3%	volatile
133	Cayman Islands	267 number	2018	up 36.9%	rising
134	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	258 number	2018	up 101.6%	falling
135	Turks and Caicos Islands	209 number	2018	up 145.9%	rising
136	Aruba	169 number	2009	up 57.9%	rising
136	Antigua and Barbuda	169 number	2018	down 5.6%	falling
136	Dominica	169 number	2019	down 61.5%	volatile
139	British Virgin Islands	158 number	2018	up 464.3%	rising
140	Tuvalu	129 number	2019	up 0.8%	falling
141	Grenada	125 number	2015	down 56.7%	volatile
142	Barbados	99 number	2019	down 62.1%	volatile
143	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43 number	2016	down 74.4%	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

World 66.61 million number
IDA & IBRD total 65.15 million number
Low & middle income 65.13 million number
European Union 577,221 number
Middle income 51.78 million number
Lower middle income 43.02 million number
Early-demographic dividend 41.17 million number
IBRD only 35.31 million number
South Asia 31.17 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 31.17 million number
IDA total 29.87 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 20.47 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 20.47 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 20.46 million number
IDA only 19.45 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 19.09 million number
Least developed countries 18.84 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 15.56 million number
Low income 13.36 million number
IDA blend 10.39 million number
Upper middle income 8.76 million number
East Asia & Pacific 6.72 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 6.29 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 6.19 million number
Late-demographic dividend 5.09 million number
Arab World 4.48 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 3.59 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 3.49 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 3.46 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 2.98 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 2.94 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 2.89 million number
OECD members 2.66 million number
High income 1.48 million number
Europe & Central Asia 1.43 million number
Post-demographic dividend 1.25 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 932,891 number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 833,024 number
Euro area 366,041 number
Small states 263,321 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, female (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 188 places, 3,019 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 21 August 2026

Total number of upper secondary school age female youth who are not enrolled in upper secondary education.