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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001

Figures for 2001, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001 covers 115 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 69.752; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 4.051. Against 2000, 80 values changed (25 up, 55 down), 33 countries joined, 17 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2001

HighestNiger

69.752

Lowest3 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, 2001, 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 115 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa69.75275.6964.0287
2Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa63.93669.9558.0744
3EthiopiaETHEastern Africa57.97362.9453.1821
4GuineaGINWestern Africa51.19257.9944.5732
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa49.13858.8239.6310
6BurundiBDIEastern Africa48.83653.5544.1377
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa44.56848.1441.0476
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa42.82744.8240.8472
9YemenYEMWestern Asia41.921——
10TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa41.08940.8741.3056
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa41.07147.7334.8523
12MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa40.40845.9234.8810
13GhanaGHAWestern Africa39.52240.6738.4043
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia38.83140.7536.9935
15MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa38.02639.8436.2452
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa36.11935.0837.1375
17EritreaERIEastern Africa34.32539.2429.4250
18ZambiaZMBEastern Africa32.20733.4430.9535
19KenyaKENEastern Africa27.17426.9027.4502
20LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia25.60128.8722.4272
21LebanonLBNWestern Asia24.14923.9824.3076
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa23.18820.3426.0196
23South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa16.68814.9318.4004
24MoroccoMARNorthern Africa16.29420.6812.1371
25GuatemalaGTMCentral America16.10118.6813.5916

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger69.752
  2. 2Burkina Faso63.936
  3. 3Ethiopia57.973
  4. 4Guinea51.192
  5. 5Chad49.138

Lowest

  1. 113Vietnamshared0.000
  2. 113Colombiashared0.000
  3. 113Belarusshared0.000
  4. 112Spain0.024
  5. 111United Kingdom0.048

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.051. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestNiger75.69

    LowestIreland0.01

    Middle country: 8.01

  • Male

    HighestNiger64.0287

    LowestSweden0.2361

    Middle country: 7.3678

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +33 / −17countries joined / left
  • 80values changed, of 82 in both
  • 25 · 55rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Austria+ Belgium+ Bulgaria+ Belarus+ Cyprus+ Germany+ Denmark+ Spain+ Finland+ France+ Hong Kong+ Croatia+ Hungary+ Indonesia+ Ireland+ Israel+ Italy+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Sri Lanka+ Lithuania+ Luxembourg+ Macau+ Norway+ Philippines+ Poland+ Portugal+ Qatar+ Romania+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Sweden+ Seychelles+ Yemen− Canada− Cook Islands− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Guinea-Bissau− Honduras− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Cambodia− Kiribati− Nigeria− Nepal− Senegal− San Marino− Turks and Caicos Islands− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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

  • 113 distinct values among 115

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 3 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.

  • 70 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) (2001). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2001

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001?

Niger, at 69.752, of the 115 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001 cover?

115.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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