Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age)
Compare adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) across 114 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2024.
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Key Insights
- •114 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
- •Niger has the highest published value (79.708 %).
- •United Arab Emirates has the lowest published value (0.01117 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 13.0%)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.
Values use one fixed 2024 reference year from World Development Indicators series SE.SEC.UNER.LO.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.
Methodology
Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niger | 79.7% |
| 2 | Senegal | 63.9% |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 59.3% |
| 4 | Chad | 58.6% |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 54.8% |
| 6 | Syrian Arab Republic | 51.3% |
| 7 | United Republic of Tanzania | 51.0% |
| 8 | El Salvador | 45.5% |
| 9 | Honduras | 44.3% |
| 10 | Suriname | 39.6% |
| 11 | Madagascar | 38.8% |
| 12 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 35.7% |
| 13 | Lebanon | 32.5% |
| 14 | Guatemala | 32.4% |
| 15 | Lesotho | 32.3% |
| 16 | Pakistan | 32.2% |
| 17 | Cote d'Ivoire | 30.8% |
| 18 | Mauritania | 30.3% |
| 19 | Comoros | 28.3% |
| 20 | Togo | 27.1% |
| 21 | Malawi | 25.3% |
| 22 | Marshall Islands | 24.5% |
| 23 | Bangladesh | 23.9% |
| 24 | Curaçao | 23.1% |
| 25 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 22.4% |
| 26 | Malaysia | 18.0% |
| 27 | Virgin Islands, British | 17.9% |
| 28 | Cambodia | 17.6% |
| 29 | Puerto Rico | 16.1% |
| 30 | Bahamas | 15.6% |
| 31 | Paraguay | 15.4% |
| 32 | India | 15.1% |
| 33 | Republic of The Gambia | 14.0% |
| 34 | Philippines | 13.1% |
| 35 | Mauritius | 13.0% |
| 36 | Zimbabwe | 12.9% |
| 37 | Saint Lucia | 12.5% |
| 38 | Zambia | 12.4% |
| 39 | Tuvalu | 12.2% |
| 40 | Ukraine | 10.5% |
| 41 | Bhutan | 10.1% |
| 42 | Dominican Republic | 9.8% |
| 43 | Maldives | 9.5% |
| 44 | Oman | 9.3% |
| 45 | Mexico | 9.1% |
| 46 | Macao | 8.3% |
| 47 | Azerbaijan | 8.1% |
| 48 | Bolivia | 8.1% |
| 49 | Kyrgyzstan | 7.8% |
| 50 | Cuba | 7.7% |
| 51 | Costa Rica | 7.6% |
| 52 | Andorra | 7.4% |
| 53 | Belize | 7.1% |
| 54 | Tonga | 6.9% |
| 55 | Bulgaria | 6.8% |
| 56 | Egypt | 6.6% |
| 57 | Qatar | 6.5% |
| 58 | Kiribati | 6.2% |
| 59 | Vanuatu | 6.1% |
| 60 | San Marino | 6.0% |
| 61 | Rwanda | 5.8% |
| 62 | Palau | 5.4% |
| 63 | Ghana | 5.2% |
| 64 | Nepal | 4.6% |
| 65 | Serbia | 4.6% |
| 66 | Belarus | 4.4% |
| 67 | Kazakhstan | 4.3% |
| 68 | Seychelles | 3.9% |
| 69 | Nauru | 3.9% |
| 70 | Sierra Leone | 3.8% |
| 71 | Brazil | 3.6% |
| 72 | Turkmenistan | 3.4% |
| 73 | Cayman Islands | 3.3% |
| 74 | Brunei Darussalam | 3.3% |
| 75 | Armenia | 3.2% |
| 76 | Hungary | 3.1% |
| 77 | Uzbekistan | 3.0% |
| 78 | South Korea | 2.9% |
| 79 | Thailand | 2.9% |
| 80 | Latvia | 2.8% |
| 81 | Bahrain | 2.7% |
| 82 | Estonia | 2.6% |
| 83 | New Zealand | 2.4% |
| 84 | Morocco | 2.3% |
| 85 | Barbados | 2.3% |
| 86 | Israel | 2.2% |
| 87 | Vietnam | 2.1% |
| 88 | Jordan | 2.0% |
| 89 | Australia | 1.9% |
| 90 | Spain | 1.8% |
| 91 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1.8% |
| 92 | Luxembourg | 1.7% |
| 93 | Georgia | 1.6% |
| 94 | Namibia | 1.3% |
| 95 | Slovakia | 1.3% |
| 96 | Finland | 1.3% |
| 97 | Austria | 1.2% |
| 98 | Denmark | 1.1% |
| 99 | Chile | 1.0% |
| 100 | Norway | 0.9% |
| 101 | Samoa | 0.8% |
| 102 | Hong Kong | 0.7% |
| 103 | Saudi Arabia | 0.6% |
| 104 | Moldova, Republic of | 0.5% |
| 105 | Algeria | 0.5% |
| 106 | Germany | 0.4% |
| 107 | Sweden | 0.4% |
| 108 | Indonesia | 0.4% |
| 109 | Peru | 0.2% |
| 110 | Poland | 0.2% |
| 111 | Lithuania | 0.1% |
| 112 | France | 0.1% |
| 113 | Switzerland | 0.1% |
| 114 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).
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