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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015 covers 147 countries on 3 measures. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 65.59652; Australia is lowest, at 0.02813. The middle country reads 3.05243. Against 2014, 131 values changed (64 up, 67 down), 16 countries joined, 14 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2015

HighestEquatorial Guinea

65.59652

LowestAustralia

0.02813

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, 2015, 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 147 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa65.5965265.172566.007
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa63.7374768.489759.086
3SudanSDNNorthern Africa47.2944845.384349.160
4MaliMLIWestern Africa43.4317847.162539.792
5NigerNERWestern Africa38.1200843.309033.109
6EritreaERIEastern Africa34.2993738.251030.408
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa32.4978533.898631.137
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa29.4556426.360332.496
9LebanonLBNWestern Asia29.2703029.920228.641
10Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa27.2279329.773224.830
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa24.5683224.144824.994
12SenegalSENWestern Africa24.2552420.381328.010
13ChadTCDMiddle Africa23.8205632.583715.311
14HondurasHNDCentral America22.7513521.666623.786
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa20.2171022.742217.769
16TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa19.5356317.840321.216
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa18.7499617.748219.743
18MicronesiaFSMMicronesia17.6378519.679915.580
19LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.6599315.479317.833
20UkraineUKREastern Europe15.9672615.227116.666
21SurinameSURSouth America14.0333915.841014.242
22LiberiaLBRWestern Africa13.6138716.822710.471
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa11.5380612.643410.430
24BoliviaBOLSouth America11.1102911.461010.774
25BurundiBDIEastern Africa11.097279.528412.659

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Equatorial Guinea65.59652
  2. 2South Sudan63.73747
  3. 3Sudan47.29448
  4. 4Mali43.43178
  5. 5Niger38.12008

Lowest

  1. 147Australia0.02813
  2. 146Switzerland0.03270
  3. 145Liechtenstein0.03349
  4. 144Montenegro0.03839
  5. 143Ireland0.04882

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.05243. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −14countries joined / left
  • 131values changed, of 131 in both
  • 64 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Switzerland+ Colombia+ Equatorial Guinea+ Marshall Islands+ Montenegro+ Romania+ Sierra Leone+ South Sudan+ Chad+ Tonga+ Uruguay+ United States+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Vanuatu+ South Africa− Aruba− Benin− Botswana− Comoros− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Grenada− Indonesia− Montserrat− Nauru− Palau− Papua New Guinea− Poland

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.

  • 78 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) (2015). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2015

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015?

Equatorial Guinea, at 65.59652, of the 147 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015 cover?

147.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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