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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012

Figures for 2012, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012 covers 142 countries on 3 measures. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 62.320; Vietnam is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 3.408. Against 2011, 129 values changed (70 up, 59 down), 13 countries joined, 10 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2012

HighestEquatorial Guinea

62.320

LowestVietnam

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, 2012, 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 142 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa62.32061.4166463.17066
2SudanSDNNorthern Africa48.59847.3890649.77766
3NigerNERWestern Africa39.93645.6028934.46657
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa37.89544.4156331.50106
5MaliMLIWestern Africa37.52142.0516433.10366
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa35.58437.4634433.75879
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.14532.9510637.30350
8EritreaERIEastern Africa33.39138.5595528.28904
9MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa30.86230.2386231.49835
10Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia30.24032.4437728.26872
11YemenYEMWestern Asia28.09334.3583722.12002
12SenegalSENWestern Africa24.08621.0928227.01525
13GuineaGINWestern Africa23.92429.3448218.64824
14EthiopiaETHEastern Africa23.72325.3631622.13030
15LebanonLBNWestern Asia21.79622.2607421.34686
16NauruNRUMicronesia18.71217.0694920.36474
17SurinameSURSouth America17.89317.7166318.06365
18KenyaKENEastern Africa17.28215.8382018.71778
19HondurasHNDCentral America16.76515.7489417.73414
20LesothoLSOSouthern Africa14.76513.4834216.03979
21TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa13.45912.3840514.52509
22GhanaGHAWestern Africa13.30115.2023211.44069
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa13.11513.5313112.71640
24EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa12.37813.6256111.14116
25Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa11.6487.9345415.32509

02In 2012

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Equatorial Guinea62.320
  2. 2Sudan48.598
  3. 3Niger39.936
  4. 4Central African Republic37.895
  5. 5Mali37.521

Lowest

  1. 142Vietnam0.000
  2. 141Argentina0.021
  3. 140Ireland0.058
  4. 139Israel0.157
  5. 138Mexico0.234

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.408. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −10countries joined / left
  • 129values changed, of 129 in both
  • 70 · 59rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Botswana+ Canada+ Republic of the Congo+ Kenya+ North Macedonia+ Nauru+ Papua New Guinea+ Sweden+ Sint Maarten+ Tonga+ Yemen+ Zimbabwe− Angola− Anguilla− Barbados− Liberia− Madagascar− Marshall Islands− Peru− South Sudan− Chad− Uganda

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.

  • 56 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) (2012). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2012

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012?

Equatorial Guinea, at 62.320, of the 142 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012 cover?

142.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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