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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023 covers 148 countries on 3 measures. Burkina Faso is highest, at 41.96683; South Korea is lowest, at 0.00672. The middle country reads 3.39316. Against 2022, 128 values changed (70 up, 58 down), 20 countries joined, 18 left.

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary · Data for 2023

HighestBurkina Faso

41.96683

LowestSouth Korea

0.00672

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa41.9668341.38442.532
2SurinameSURSouth America39.6057839.11840.077
3NigerNERWestern Africa39.3804841.13937.682
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa36.7621536.93436.592
5MaliMLIWestern Africa34.0078237.20030.888
6Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia32.4041532.74432.085
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa30.6971330.26131.129
8BahamasBHSCaribbean28.9178128.83428.999
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia27.7386031.84923.805
10ChadTCDMiddle Africa26.7173333.18220.425
11SyriaSYRWestern Asia26.3356626.01726.639
12LebanonLBNWestern Asia25.6683525.78925.553
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa24.3187025.48923.183
14SenegalSENWestern Africa24.0510914.92732.390
15MicronesiaFSMMicronesia23.9372022.85624.953
16HondurasHNDCentral America23.8959022.99024.759
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa23.8280626.41421.329
18GambiaGMBWestern Africa18.7824213.02824.428
19GuyanaGUYSouth America17.9801618.52717.449
20Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa17.0770816.91517.237
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe15.5898815.73515.452
22British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean15.4088114.70016.102
23BarbadosBRBCaribbean14.4829714.94514.036
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America14.3210213.08115.485
25MacauMACEastern Asia14.2032013.12615.169

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Burkina Faso41.96683
  2. 2Suriname39.60578
  3. 3Niger39.38048
  4. 4Angola36.76215
  5. 5Mali34.00782

Lowest

  1. 148South Korea0.00672
  2. 147Uruguay0.03545
  3. 146Switzerland0.04699
  4. 145Japan0.06840
  5. 144United Kingdom0.06984

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.39316. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −18countries joined / left
  • 128values changed, of 128 in both
  • 70 · 58rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahamas+ Republic of the Congo+ Cook Islands+ Curaçao+ Egypt+ Gibraltar+ Guyana+ Mali+ Montenegro+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nicaragua+ Puerto Rico+ Rwanda+ Solomon Islands+ Sint Maarten+ Timor-Leste+ Ukraine− Benin− Brazil− Botswana− Colombia− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Ireland− Kenya− Kyrgyzstan− Liberia− Mozambique− Malawi− Oman− Serbia− Eswatini− Tonga− United States

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.

  • 84 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) (2023). Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/out-of-school-rate/2023

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07Questions

Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest out-of-school rate (primary) in Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023?

Burkina Faso, at 41.96683, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023 cover?

148.

Where can I download Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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