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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002

Figures for 2002, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002 covers 118 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 66.34366; Colombia is lowest, at 0.00000. The middle country reads 4.14403. Against 2001, 105 values changed (43 up, 62 down), 12 countries joined, 9 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2002

HighestNiger

66.34366

LowestColombia

0.00000

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, 2002, 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 118 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa66.3436672.91660.008
2Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa64.7803470.29359.402
3EthiopiaETHEastern Africa56.2633960.87451.806
4MaliMLIWestern Africa52.2817458.63346.058
5BurundiBDIEastern Africa48.2017653.37143.045
6Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa47.3004351.25043.402
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa45.3430555.52735.358
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa44.4936546.41642.583
9GuineaGINWestern Africa44.2641151.38837.332
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa44.2234148.11440.322
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa40.8030848.28733.818
12MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa39.0946139.97538.228
13MadagascarMDGEastern Africa35.9619334.89737.005
14GhanaGHAWestern Africa35.2796236.37334.211
15KenyaKENEastern Africa29.3811832.49126.273
16ZambiaZMBEastern Africa29.2294130.68527.744
17EritreaERIEastern Africa28.1226134.02922.240
18TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa25.8526226.26825.442
19LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia24.1645027.47920.946
20LebanonLBNWestern Asia23.2956723.14923.436
21LesothoLSOSouthern Africa20.4187517.80423.021
22South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa15.1361613.25316.970
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa14.9462115.89014.062
24OmanOMNWestern Asia14.6902515.88113.508
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia13.9906220.5018.049

02In 2002

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger66.34366
  2. 2Burkina Faso64.78034
  3. 3Ethiopia56.26339
  4. 4Mali52.28174
  5. 5Burundi48.20176

Lowest

  1. 118Colombia0.00000
  2. 117Denmark0.00112
  3. 116Portugal0.01350
  4. 115United Kingdom0.02608
  5. 114Spain0.04242

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.14403. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −9countries joined / left
  • 105values changed, of 106 in both
  • 43 · 62rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Dominican Republic+ Grenada+ Iran+ Jordan+ Marshall Islands+ Mali+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Ukraine+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Albania− Belize− Bhutan− Switzerland− Dominica− Ecuador− Montserrat− Samoa− 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

  • The position is ours

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

  • 58 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) (2002). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2002

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002?

Niger, at 66.34366, of the 118 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002 cover?

118.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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