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Out-of-School Rate, Primary

32 years, 1981–2024 · 121 countries · 3 measures

The out-of-school rate is the share of primary-age children in no school at all — not behind, not dropping out later, simply never counted in an enrolment register. It is the most direct measure there is of an education system’s reach.

This site holds every year from 1981 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · the file

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024
Held
32 years · 3,720 rows
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CC BY-SA 4.0

0132 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1981bar height: countries covered, up to 1482024
Every year of Out-of-School Rate, Primary held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024Newest121+14 −41September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023148+20 −18September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2022146+12 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021148+16 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2020143+13 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019142+14 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2018140+10 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2017145+13 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016146+15 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015147+16 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2014145+25 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2013133+15 −24September 10, 2026CSV
Show all 32 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012142+13 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2011139+23 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2010127+15 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2009128+15 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2008128+16 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2007127+16 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2006121+5 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2005129+16 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2004119+17 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2003119+13 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002118+12 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001115+33 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 200099+25 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 199987+49 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 199452+19 −19September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 198652+9 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 198552+8 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 198454+7 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 198357+15 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 198151—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: out-of-school-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Out-of-School Rate, Primary: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1210
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1210
Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)out_of_school_rateHeadlineThe headline figure: Out-of-school rate, primary age (%).Number · up to 16 decimals0.0039United Arab Emirates64.7347South Sudanmiddle 3.69081210
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 16 decimals0.000Algeria61.581South Sudanmiddle 6.2098536
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 16 decimals0.023Azerbaijan67.821South Sudanmiddle 6.8808536

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03207 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Out-of-School Rate, Primary, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa303332293329272329282524
Americas262829292826272830283225
Asia363434393836353736403934
Europe343739374041414242394025
Oceania713131268121311111213
All133145147146145140142143148146148121

The newest 12 of 32 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Brazil+ Comoros+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Grenada+ Kyrgyzstan+ Mauritania+ Oman+ Saudi Arabia+ Serbia+ South Sudan+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Zambia− Angola− Argentina− Antigua and Barbuda− Belgium− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Canada− Republic of the Congo− Cyprus− Czechia− Dominica− Ecuador− United Kingdom− Greece− Guyana− Croatia− Iran− Iceland− Italy− Japan− Sri Lanka− North Macedonia− Mali− Malta− Montenegro− Montserrat− Nigeria− Nicaragua− Netherlands− Portugal− Palestine− Romania− Russia− Singapore− Slovenia− Sint Maarten− Timor-Leste− Tunisia− Türkiye− Uruguay− Venezuela− South Africa
  • 2023
    + Angola+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahamas+ Republic of the Congo+ Cook Islands+ Curaçao+ Egypt+ Gibraltar+ Guyana+ Mali+ Montenegro+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nicaragua+ Puerto Rico+ Rwanda+ Solomon Islands+ Sint Maarten+ Timor-Leste+ Ukraine− Benin− Brazil− Botswana− Colombia− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Ireland− Kenya− Kyrgyzstan− Liberia− Mozambique− Malawi− Oman− Serbia− Eswatini− Tonga− United States
  • 2022
    + Bangladesh+ Bahrain+ Botswana+ Eritrea+ Iran+ Maldives+ Mozambique+ Nauru+ Eswatini+ Turkmenistan+ Tuvalu+ Venezuela− Egypt− Ghana− Grenada− Guyana− Liechtenstein− Morocco− Montenegro− Mauritius− Niue− Papua New Guinea− Rwanda− Saudi Arabia− Turks and Caicos Islands− Ukraine
  • 2021
    + Cameroon+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Grenada+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montserrat+ Malawi+ Niger+ Niue+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad− Burundi− Curaçao− Fiji− Guinea− Iran− Maldives− Mozambique− Mauritania− Nauru− Timor-Leste− Tuvalu
  • 2020
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Curaçao+ Fiji+ Guinea+ Guyana+ Kiribati+ Liberia+ Palau+ Paraguay+ Saudi Arabia+ Syria+ Tunisia− Antigua and Barbuda− Bahrain− Cameroon− Gabon− Niger− Niue− Peru− Rwanda− Sudan− Solomon Islands− Eswatini− Chad
  • 2019
    + Cameroon+ Dominica+ Gabon+ Honduras+ Iran+ Marshall Islands+ Niger+ Niue+ Nauru+ Panama+ Senegal+ Sweden+ Tuvalu+ Vanuatu− Bangladesh− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Eritrea− Fiji− Grenada− Madagascar− Mali− Puerto Rico− Tunisia
  • 2018
    + United Arab Emirates+ Republic of the Congo+ Cayman Islands+ Grenada+ New Zealand+ Papua New Guinea+ Puerto Rico+ Solomon Islands+ San Marino+ Tonga− Cameroon− Cook Islands− Honduras− Iran− Kiribati− Liberia− Niger− Nepal− Panama− São Tomé and Príncipe− Turks and Caicos Islands− Tajikistan− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Venezuela− Zambia
  • 2017
    + Bangladesh+ Comoros+ Eritrea+ North Macedonia+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Poland+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Thailand+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ South Africa+ Zambia− Dominica− Guinea− Grenada− Kuwait− Marshall Islands− Niue− Nauru− New Zealand− Papua New Guinea− Puerto Rico− Paraguay− Saudi Arabia− Tuvalu− Yemen

Not in this dataset · 18 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaChannel IslandsDjiboutiFaroe IslandsGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoMonacoNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSomaliaSomalilandTaiwanUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

    databrowser.uis.unesco.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Out-of-School Rate, Primary 2024

    indicators

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    32 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as out-of-school-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/out-of-school-rateA key for Education & Knowledge in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written, which drops 1982, most of 1987–1998, and the 2025 stub UIS had opened with only 12 countries.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed
  • Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Out-of-School Rate, Primary, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 1981–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary: questions and answers

What is the Out-of-School Rate, Primary?

The out-of-school rate is the share of primary-age children in no school at all — not behind, not dropping out later, simply never counted in an enrolment register. It is the most direct measure there is of an education system’s reach.

Which years of the Out-of-School Rate, Primary can I download?

All 32, from 1981 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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