education2024

Children out of school (% of primary school age)

Name: Children out of school (% of primary school age)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, education-schools-skills, children, school, primary

Compare children out of school (% of primary school age) across 120 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2024.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•120 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

7.8%

Median: 3.7%

Countries Covered

120

with available data

Highest

South Sudan

64.7%

Lowest

United Arab Emirates

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1South Sudan64.7%

2Niger40.4%

3Burkina Faso34.3%

4Lesotho32.2%

5Solomon Islands30.1%

By Region

Other10.2%(74 countries)

Africa8.1%(4 countries)

Asia5.3%(17 countries)

North America4.4%(2 countries)

South America2.2%(2 countries)

Key Findings

•120 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•South Sudan has the highest published value (64.7347 %).
•United Arab Emirates has the lowest published value (0.00386989 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (64.7%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 7.8%)

Other (74)

Africa (4)

Asia (17)

North America (2)

South America (2)

Europe (19)

Oceania (2)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Children out of school are the percentage of primary-school-age children who are not enrolled in primary or secondary school. Children in the official primary age group that are in preprimary education should be considered out of school.

Values use one fixed 2024 reference year from World Development Indicators series SE.PRM.UNER.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Children out of school are the percentage of primary-school-age children who are not enrolled in primary or secondary school. Children in the official primary age group that are in preprimary education should be considered out of school.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	South Sudan	64.7%
2	Niger	40.4%
3	Burkina Faso	34.3%
4	Lesotho	32.2%
5	Solomon Islands	30.1%
6	Curaçao	27.9%
7	Virgin Islands, British	27.0%
8	Honduras	26.6%
9	Chad	24.8%
10	Senegal	24.5%
11	Micronesia, Federated States of	23.1%
12	Lebanon	22.5%
13	Ethiopia	22.5%
14	Syrian Arab Republic	21.8%
15	Comoros	20.6%
16	Republic of The Gambia	18.8%
17	Pakistan	17.9%
18	Barbados	17.6%
19	United Republic of Tanzania	16.4%
20	Suriname	16.2%
21	Bahamas	15.9%
22	Paraguay	13.3%
23	Puerto Rico	13.3%
24	Ukraine	12.9%
25	Cote d'Ivoire	12.6%
26	Malaysia	12.0%
27	Philippines	11.6%
28	Mauritania	11.3%
29	Macao	10.8%
30	Belize	10.7%
31	Zimbabwe	10.5%
32	Bhutan	10.5%
33	Lao People's Democratic Republic	10.3%
34	Bolivia	9.3%
35	Kiribati	8.7%
36	El Salvador	8.7%
37	Mongolia	8.6%
38	Guatemala	8.4%
39	Panama	7.7%
40	Trinidad and Tobago	7.2%
41	Saint Lucia	7.0%
42	Seychelles	6.8%
43	Kazakhstan	6.4%
44	Georgia	6.2%
45	San Marino	6.1%
46	Bulgaria	5.9%
47	Bangladesh	5.9%
48	Oman	5.8%
49	Cayman Islands	5.2%
50	Grenada	4.9%
51	Dominican Republic	4.9%
52	Ghana	4.8%
53	Bahrain	4.7%
54	Cuba	4.7%
55	Qatar	4.6%
56	Belarus	4.5%
57	Costa Rica	4.5%
58	Jamaica	4.3%
59	Turkmenistan	4.3%
60	Cameroon	3.8%
61	Cambodia	3.7%
62	Brunei Darussalam	3.6%
63	Zambia	3.5%
64	Egypt	3.5%
65	Madagascar	3.4%
66	Estonia	3.4%
67	Serbia	3.3%
68	Nauru	3.0%
69	Kyrgyzstan	3.0%
70	Hungary	2.8%
71	Latvia	2.7%
72	Israel	2.7%
73	New Zealand	2.6%
74	Vanuatu	2.5%
75	Andorra	2.4%
76	Fiji	2.4%
77	Brazil	2.2%
78	Chile	2.1%
79	Nepal	2.0%
80	Jordan	1.9%
81	Samoa	1.8%
82	Finland	1.8%
83	Vietnam	1.7%
84	Gibraltar	1.6%
85	Algeria	1.6%
86	Marshall Islands	1.5%
87	Austria	1.4%
88	Hong Kong	1.4%
89	Norway	1.4%
90	Palau	1.3%
91	Spain	1.2%
92	Armenia	1.1%
93	Indonesia	1.1%
94	Slovakia	1.1%
95	Rwanda	1.0%
96	Maldives	0.9%
97	Denmark	0.9%
98	Namibia	0.9%
99	Mauritius	0.8%
100	Togo	0.6%
101	Sweden	0.6%
102	Uzbekistan	0.6%
103	Thailand	0.6%
104	Tuvalu	0.5%
105	Saudi Arabia	0.5%
106	Albania	0.5%
107	Moldova, Republic of	0.5%
108	Mexico	0.4%
109	Germany	0.3%
110	Luxembourg	0.3%
111	France	0.2%
112	Switzerland	0.1%
113	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.1%
114	Lithuania	0.1%
115	Australia	0.1%
116	India	0.1%
117	Poland	0.1%
118	South Korea	0.1%
119	Azerbaijan	0.0%
120	United Arab Emirates	0.0%

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Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #education-schools-skills #children #school #primary

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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