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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016 covers 146 countries on 3 measures. Sudan is highest, at 45.5428; Australia is lowest, at 0.0078. The middle country reads 2.9540. Against 2015, 131 values changed (67 up, 64 down), 15 countries joined, 16 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2016

HighestSudan

45.5428

LowestAustralia

0.0078

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, 2016, 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 146 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SudanSDNNorthern Africa45.542843.0026548.023
2MaliMLIWestern Africa42.071546.1765938.065
3NigerNERWestern Africa36.935742.0767531.970
4MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa32.717031.8005033.631
5YemenYEMWestern Asia30.621134.8987626.540
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa30.114838.0270922.436
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa27.853224.4372031.208
8Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa27.231028.5049025.994
9LebanonLBNWestern Asia26.286326.6455525.941
10HondurasHNDCentral America21.785620.6730122.846
11GuineaGINWestern Africa20.543927.7477913.520
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa20.393320.7208020.073
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa20.168722.4226318.035
14ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa17.685117.0162718.348
15UkraineUKREastern Europe16.260515.7982516.697
16LesothoLSOSouthern Africa16.150514.9388717.355
17TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa15.457113.8380417.061
18SurinameSURSouth America13.728313.3859014.060
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa12.669611.1042214.228
20British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean11.982213.7734810.272
21MicronesiaFSMMicronesia11.593714.519208.670
22BhutanBTNSouthern Asia11.45718.3373314.349
23GuatemalaGTMCentral America11.365212.0322810.714
24EgyptEGYNorthern Africa11.317911.8252410.834
25JamaicaJAMCaribbean11.096710.7977611.386

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sudan45.5428
  2. 2Mali42.0715
  3. 3Niger36.9357
  4. 4Mauritania32.7170
  5. 5Yemen30.6211

Lowest

  1. 146Australia0.0078
  2. 145Singapore0.0104
  3. 144Ireland0.0116
  4. 143Uruguay0.0343
  5. 142Cook Islands0.0618

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.9540. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestMali46.17659

    LowestSerbia0.01990

    Middle country: 4.12719

  • Male

    HighestSudan48.023

    LowestAlgeria0.000

    Middle country: 4.484

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −16countries joined / left
  • 131values changed, of 131 in both
  • 67 · 64rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Grenada+ Indonesia+ India+ Jordan+ Nauru+ Peru+ Papua New Guinea+ Paraguay+ Rwanda+ Singapore+ Yemen− Eritrea− Ethiopia− Equatorial Guinea− North Macedonia− Panama− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Sierra Leone− South Sudan− São Tomé and Príncipe− Sweden− Turks and Caicos Islands− Tonga− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Vanuatu− South Africa

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.

  • 68 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) (2016). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2016

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016?

Sudan, at 45.5428, of the 146 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016 cover?

146.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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