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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021

Figures for 2021, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021 covers 148 countries on 3 measures. Niger is highest, at 41.3044; Lithuania is lowest, at 0.0034. The middle country reads 3.3301. Against 2020, 132 values changed (78 up, 54 down), 16 countries joined, 11 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2021

HighestNiger

41.3044

LowestLithuania

0.0034

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, 2021, 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 148 countries · select a heading to sort

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa41.304443.98738.7138
2KenyaKENEastern Africa36.280234.06738.4638
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa35.406435.44535.3684
4SyriaSYRWestern Asia34.611234.35634.8534
5LesothoLSOSouthern Africa30.323129.63231.0099
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia30.226934.92825.7348
7Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa29.058028.99429.1200
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa28.560735.59021.7296
9LebanonLBNWestern Asia28.000728.20827.8027
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa25.733428.79122.7792
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa25.543426.40024.7165
12SenegalSENWestern Africa24.893417.38931.8768
13HondurasHNDCentral America24.768523.36226.1090
14SurinameSURSouth America21.783321.97721.5964
15GuyanaGUYSouth America19.974720.30319.6558
16MicronesiaFSMMicronesia19.065517.84920.2156
17GambiaGMBWestern Africa19.023613.84324.1076
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa17.093918.30115.9356
19BhutanBTNSouthern Asia16.103011.82419.9930
20UkraineUKREastern Europe15.871015.80215.9362
21El SalvadorSLVCentral America15.685414.07317.1927
22JamaicaJAMCaribbean15.018415.42114.6304
23QatarQATWestern Asia12.747112.45913.0242
24MacauMACEastern Asia12.731211.64613.7129
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa12.683410.88114.4604

02In 2021

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Niger41.3044
  2. 2Kenya36.2802
  3. 3Liberia35.4064
  4. 4Syria34.6112
  5. 5Lesotho30.3231

Lowest

  1. 148Lithuania0.0034
  2. 147Poland0.0215
  3. 146Cyprus0.0224
  4. 145United Kingdom0.0336
  5. 144Marshall Islands0.0378

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.3301. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −11countries joined / left
  • 132values changed, of 132 in both
  • 78 · 54rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Ethiopia+ Grenada+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montserrat+ Malawi+ Niger+ Niue+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad− Burundi− Curaçao− Fiji− Guinea− Iran− Maldives− Mozambique− Mauritania− Nauru− Timor-Leste− Tuvalu

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.

  • 80 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) (2021). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2021

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021?

Niger, at 41.3044, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021 cover?

148.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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