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

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

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

Countries reporting

142

Highest

4.43 million number

Pakistan

Lowest

30 number

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Median

19,103 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

3,012

What the numbers show

Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, male (number) is currently reported for 142 countries. The highest value is 4.43 million number in Pakistan; the lowest is 30 number in Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The median across all reporting countries is 19,103 number, and the mean is 182,473 number.

Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 96 fell. The largest increase was in Ukraine (up 3,564.3%), and the largest decrease in Hong Kong (down 99.0%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Pakistan	4.43 million number	2016	down 21.8%	falling
2	Bangladesh	2.62 million number	2018	down 29.3%	falling
3	Ethiopia	1.67 million number	2015	up 55.0%	rising
4	Indonesia	1.64 million number	2018	down 42.5%	falling
5	Brazil	959,501 number	2011	down 1.8%	flat
6	Mexico	947,365 number	2018	down 33.2%	falling
7	Egypt	603,906 number	2019	down 13.8%	falling
8	Afghanistan	595,767 number	2018	down 8.9%	flat
9	Niger	536,460 number	2017	up 48.5%	rising
10	Myanmar	487,175 number	2018	down 19.6%	falling
11	Kenya	473,144 number	2009	down 32.1%	falling
12	Turkey	462,499 number	2018	down 16.2%	falling
13	Burkina Faso	440,523 number	2019	up 12.7%	rising
14	Syria	438,402 number	2013	up 3.2%	falling
15	Cote d'Ivoire	434,933 number	2019	down 5.4%	falling
16	Mali	429,797 number	2018	up 41.9%	rising
17	Yemen	418,860 number	2016	down 11.2%	rising
18	Iran	413,106 number	2017	down 40.1%	falling
19	Iraq	387,718 number	2007	down 19.6%	falling
20	Mozambique	384,635 number	2015	up 41.6%	falling
21	Chad	368,681 number	2019	—	rising
22	Cameroon	359,320 number	2015	—	rising
23	Malaysia	349,643 number	2017	up 4.7%	rising
24	Guatemala	334,662 number	2018	up 12.5%	rising
25	South Africa	314,479 number	2018	down 28.8%	falling
26	Thailand	307,871 number	2015	down 64.3%	falling
27	Zimbabwe	265,610 number	2013	down 22.4%	falling
28	Ghana	262,578 number	2019	down 31.0%	falling
29	Cambodia	262,452 number	2008	down 7.1%	falling
30	Malawi	257,028 number	2019	up 29.9%	rising
31	Philippines	253,029 number	2015	down 26.5%	rising
32	United States	241,023 number	2018	down 60.1%	falling
33	Morocco	233,893 number	2019	down 44.3%	falling
34	Burundi	228,260 number	2019	up 4.3%	flat
35	Guinea	216,924 number	2014	up 19.4%	rising
36	Colombia	191,794 number	2018	down 27.6%	falling
37	Germany	160,600 number	2018	up 100.8%	rising
38	Argentina	157,795 number	2017	down 41.7%	falling
39	Venezuela	149,667 number	2017	down 24.8%	falling
40	Honduras	124,151 number	2019	up 2.6%	falling
41	Uzbekistan	109,626 number	2019	down 55.6%	falling
42	Jordan	99,059 number	2019	up 104.0%	rising
43	Bolivia	98,343 number	2018	up 41.7%	rising
44	Ecuador	96,519 number	2018	down 49.8%	falling
45	Laos	89,222 number	2019	down 5.8%	rising
46	Romania	87,983 number	2018	—	flat
47	Mauritania	85,975 number	2019	up 7.3%	rising
48	Italy	85,402 number	2018	down 18.4%	falling
49	United Kingdom	70,569 number	2018	down 60.5%	volatile
50	Paraguay	69,476 number	2016	down 15.9%	flat
51	France	66,711 number	2018	down 26.9%	falling
52	Dominican Republic	66,602 number	2019	down 44.7%	falling
53	Eritrea	64,528 number	2018	down 21.2%	flat
54	El Salvador	61,657 number	2018	down 8.6%	falling
55	Tajikistan	53,100 number	2011	down 10.0%	falling
56	Palestine	50,524 number	2019	up 66.0%	rising
57	Nicaragua	49,642 number	2010	down 30.0%	falling
58	Panama	49,036 number	2017	up 24.4%	rising
59	Cuba	41,571 number	2019	up 6.6%	volatile
60	Canada	35,575 number	2018	down 62.2%	falling
61	Ukraine	32,722 number	2014	up 3,564.3%	volatile
62	Kyrgyzstan	29,613 number	2019	down 20.5%	flat
63	Switzerland	29,371 number	2018	up 1.0%	flat
64	Australia	29,140 number	2018	—	volatile
65	South Korea	29,069 number	2018	down 64.9%	volatile
66	Peru	26,864 number	2019	down 81.0%	falling
67	Hungary	24,853 number	2018	up 15.3%	volatile
68	Chile	23,168 number	2018	down 67.3%	falling
69	Poland	20,494 number	2018	down 73.6%	volatile
70	Serbia	19,846 number	2019	down 38.0%	falling
71	Djibouti	19,347 number	2015	down 7.9%	flat
72	Mongolia	18,859 number	2006	down 44.8%	falling
73	Austria	18,244 number	2018	up 40.0%	rising
74	Namibia	16,701 number	2007	up 15.3%	rising
75	Lesotho	16,693 number	2016	down 7.0%	flat
76	Spain	14,696 number	2018	down 80.4%	volatile
77	Croatia	14,400 number	2018	down 12.1%	falling
78	Albania	13,814 number	2019	down 13.5%	volatile
79	Moldova	13,577 number	2019	down 39.8%	falling
80	Kuwait	13,230 number	2015	up 157.1%	falling
81	Puerto Rico	12,931 number	2018	down 51.6%	falling
82	East Timor	12,624 number	2019	down 15.2%	falling
83	Jamaica	12,513 number	2019	down 29.6%	falling
84	Bulgaria	12,292 number	2018	down 60.8%	falling
85	Denmark	12,140 number	2018	down 25.0%	falling
86	Slovakia	12,132 number	2018	down 27.9%	falling
87	Uruguay	11,450 number	2017	down 50.7%	falling
88	Mauritius	9,513 number	2019	up 34.0%	falling
89	Armenia	8,906 number	2019	up 54.3%	rising
90	Norway	8,169 number	2018	up 57.7%	rising
91	Fiji	7,012 number	2012	down 42.2%	falling
92	Suriname	6,495 number	2015	down 9.4%	flat
93	Botswana	6,417 number	2003	down 47.2%	falling
94	Greece	6,197 number	2018	down 73.6%	volatile
95	Guyana	5,880 number	2012	—	falling
96	Belarus	5,803 number	2014	—	volatile
97	Costa Rica	5,462 number	2019	down 70.0%	falling
98	Czechia	5,312 number	2018	down 32.2%	volatile
99	Bahrain	4,997 number	2019	up 6.5%	volatile
100	Georgia	4,974 number	2019	down 53.7%	volatile
101	Bhutan	4,880 number	2018	down 38.9%	falling
102	Cape Verde	4,434 number	2018	down 38.9%	falling
103	Eswatini	3,751 number	2015	up 5.6%	falling
104	Portugal	3,739 number	2013	down 92.3%	falling
105	Belgium	3,714 number	2018	down 16.4%	volatile
106	New Zealand	3,691 number	2018	down 53.9%	volatile
107	Oman	3,419 number	2018	down 78.3%	volatile
108	Bahamas	3,351 number	2018	up 688.5%	volatile
109	Brunei	3,344 number	2019	up 51.9%	rising
110	Vanuatu	3,271 number	2015	down 34.2%	falling
111	Netherlands	3,233 number	2015	down 84.5%	rising
112	Luxembourg	3,091 number	2018	up 43.4%	rising
113	Belize	3,015 number	2019	down 1.5%	rising
114	Finland	2,631 number	2018	down 57.3%	falling
115	Sweden	2,295 number	2015	down 54.0%	volatile
116	Samoa	1,460 number	2016	down 45.1%	falling
117	Latvia	1,330 number	2018	down 69.7%	volatile
118	Iceland	1,283 number	2018	down 23.2%	falling
119	Qatar	1,233 number	2010	down 74.9%	volatile
120	Lithuania	1,182 number	2018	down 53.3%	volatile
121	Sao Tome and Principe	1,168 number	2015	down 66.9%	falling
122	Ireland	1,123 number	2018	down 80.2%	volatile
123	Macao	1,047 number	2019	down 70.8%	falling
124	Malta	1,024 number	2018	down 56.0%	falling
125	Tonga	920 number	2015	up 208.7%	rising
126	Slovenia	844 number	2018	down 82.1%	volatile
127	Cyprus	810 number	2018	down 34.7%	falling
128	Seychelles	622 number	2019	down 58.7%	volatile
129	Hong Kong	571 number	2019	down 99.0%	volatile
130	Saint Lucia	548 number	2019	down 35.5%	falling
131	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	307 number	2018	up 5.9%	falling
132	Barbados	293 number	2019	down 2.3%	volatile
133	Cayman Islands	276 number	2018	up 10.8%	rising
134	Aruba	265 number	2009	up 58.7%	volatile
135	Tuvalu	213 number	2019	up 8.7%	flat
136	Antigua and Barbuda	201 number	2018	down 11.5%	falling
137	Dominica	199 number	2019	down 67.1%	flat
138	British Virgin Islands	198 number	2018	up 230.0%	rising
139	Turks and Caicos Islands	175 number	2018	up 60.6%	rising
140	Grenada	135 number	2015	down 61.6%	volatile
141	Estonia	130 number	2018	down 95.2%	volatile
142	Saint Kitts and Nevis	30 number	2016	down 91.6%	volatile

Regions and income groups

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

World 70.88 million number
IDA & IBRD total 69.26 million number
Low & middle income 69.26 million number
European Union 624,766 number
Middle income 57.61 million number
Lower middle income 44.68 million number
Early-demographic dividend 43.61 million number
IBRD only 41.58 million number
South Asia 32.95 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 32.95 million number
IDA total 27.71 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 18.46 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 18.46 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 18.45 million number
IDA only 18.16 million number
Least developed countries 17.56 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 16.61 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 13.78 million number
Upper middle income 12.92 million number
Low income 11.65 million number
East Asia & Pacific 11.11 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 10.58 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 10.46 million number
IDA blend 9.52 million number
Late-demographic dividend 9.22 million number
Arab World 4.00 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 3.44 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 3.38 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 3.34 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 3.13 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 3.08 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 3.03 million number
OECD members 2.99 million number
High income 1.62 million number
Europe & Central Asia 1.51 million number
Post-demographic dividend 1.43 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 975,784 number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 856,174 number
Euro area 380,123 number
Small states 286,100 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school youth of upper secondary school age, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 187 places, 3,012 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 21 August 2026

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