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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000

Figures for 2000, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000 covers 99 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 73.281; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 8.642. Against 1999, 73 values changed (18 up, 55 down), 25 countries joined, 13 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2000

HighestNiger

73.281

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 99 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa73.28178.50168.250
2Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa65.04971.18059.075
3EthiopiaETHEastern Africa61.55466.99756.294
4BurundiBDIEastern Africa57.67861.44853.920
5GuineaGINWestern Africa54.11461.32047.089
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa50.75658.77242.800
7Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa50.66558.24743.084
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa50.35060.61240.258
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa48.20653.63142.826
10TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa45.93245.11146.746
11MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa45.17750.88539.456
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa42.92145.90939.947
13SenegalSENWestern Africa41.81545.72337.958
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia41.08343.53138.732
15MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa40.64642.14439.170
16ComorosCOMEastern Africa39.16444.09834.368
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa36.93535.96237.888
18EritreaERIEastern Africa36.57041.17531.971
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa35.95241.86630.195
20KenyaKENEastern Africa34.95534.25935.650
21GhanaGHAWestern Africa34.47936.11232.885
22ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.92933.55030.276
23NepalNPLSouthern Asia30.94538.64623.534
24LesothoLSOSouthern Africa25.49322.77128.200
25LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia25.02528.47421.674

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Niger73.281
  2. 2Burkina Faso65.049
  3. 3Ethiopia61.554
  4. 4Burundi57.678
  5. 5Guinea54.114

Lowest

  1. 98Vietnamshared0.000
  2. 98Colombiashared0.000
  3. 97United Kingdom0.052
  4. 96North Macedonia0.053
  5. 95Mexico0.060

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 8.642. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestNiger78.501

    LowestCanada0.519

    Middle country: 14.412

  • Male

    HighestNiger68.250

    LowestIceland0.148

    Middle country: 12.826

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +25 / −13countries joined / left
  • 73values changed, of 74 in both
  • 18 · 55rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Azerbaijan+ Burundi+ Canada+ Switzerland+ Colombia+ Cabo Verde+ Dominica+ Ecuador+ United Kingdom+ Guinea-Bissau+ Equatorial Guinea+ Greece+ Honduras+ India+ Kazakhstan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Saint Lucia+ Mexico+ Myanmar+ El Salvador+ San Marino+ Tajikistan+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− United Arab Emirates− Bahamas− DR Congo− Grenada− Liberia− Mali− Malawi− Philippines− Qatar− Rwanda− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tonga− Yemen

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • 98 distinct values among 99

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 2 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 42 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2000). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2000

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000?

Niger, at 73.281, of the 99 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000 cover?

99.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2000 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024.

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