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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019 covers 142 countries on 3 measures. Sudan is highest, at 43.838; Tonga is lowest, at 0.024. The middle country reads 2.758. Against 2018, 128 values changed (67 up, 61 down), 14 countries joined, 12 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2019

HighestSudan

43.838

LowestTonga

0.024

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SudanSDNNorthern Africa43.83841.92845.7029
2NigerNERWestern Africa40.70844.54936.9994
3ChadTCDMiddle Africa31.05938.60723.7337
4MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa30.90529.40532.3710
5GabonGABMiddle Africa28.76328.72528.8012
6LebanonLBNWestern Asia25.94025.98525.8963
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa25.80026.51825.1034
8SenegalSENWestern Africa24.67418.52030.4888
9LesothoLSOSouthern Africa22.85319.76425.9216
10BurundiBDIEastern Africa21.14019.88122.3915
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa20.25515.83024.5992
12British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean19.34321.03317.7045
13ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa18.38117.11119.6402
14HondurasHNDCentral America17.81519.00416.6823
15SurinameSURSouth America16.40416.20216.6009
16UkraineUKREastern Europe16.38316.24116.5160
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa16.20917.33615.1402
18BeninBENWestern Africa14.41517.31911.5896
19TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa14.34213.00115.6677
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America14.24312.60515.7722
21Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia12.0939.44014.5653
22PanamaPANCentral America12.0809.89711.9694
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia10.9049.67412.0390
24MicronesiaFSMMicronesia10.79513.34111.9134
25GuatemalaGTMCentral America9.90510.4699.3547

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sudan43.838
  2. 2Niger40.708
  3. 3Chad31.059
  4. 4Mauritania30.905
  5. 5Gabon28.763

Lowest

  1. 142Tonga0.024
  2. 141United Kingdom0.052
  3. 140Hong Kong0.067
  4. 139Liechtenstein0.080
  5. 138Japan0.081

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.758. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −12countries joined / left
  • 128values changed, of 128 in both
  • 67 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cameroon+ Dominica+ Gabon+ Honduras+ Iran+ Marshall Islands+ Niger+ Niue+ Nauru+ Panama+ Senegal+ Sweden+ Tuvalu+ Vanuatu− Bangladesh− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Eritrea− Fiji− Grenada− Madagascar− Mali− Puerto Rico− Tunisia

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.

  • 72 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) (2019). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2019

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019?

Sudan, at 43.838, of the 142 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019 cover?

142.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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