Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024

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Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)	Female	Male
1	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	64.7347	61.581	67.821
2	NigerNERWestern Africa	40.4124	41.730	39.140
3	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	34.2877	33.712	34.846
4	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	32.1724	31.752	32.589
5	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	30.1391	30.803	29.515
6	CuraçaoCUWCaribbean	27.8896	26.074	29.639
7	British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	26.9663	40.779	24.034
8	HondurasHNDCentral America	26.6202	25.565	27.627
9	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	24.8041	30.563	19.194
10	SenegalSENWestern Africa	24.5261	15.355	32.893
11	MicronesiaFSMMicronesia	23.0581	21.629	24.400
12	LebanonLBNWestern Asia	22.5125	22.364	22.654
13	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	22.4551	25.078	19.920
14	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	21.8050	21.449	22.144
15	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	20.6474	20.525	20.767
16	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	18.8492	12.610	24.969
17	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	17.9322	18.917	16.990
18	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	17.5962	17.357	17.827
19	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	16.3666	13.494	19.192
20	SurinameSURSouth America	16.2222	16.790	15.673
21	BahamasBHSCaribbean	15.8760	16.263	15.498
22	El SalvadorSLVCentral America	15.2642	14.023	16.433
23	ParaguayPRYSouth America	13.3311	13.408	13.258
24	Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	13.2523	12.197	14.250
25	UkraineUKREastern Europe	12.9337	12.554	13.291

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.6908. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestSouth Sudan61.581

  LowestAlgeria0.000

  Middle country: 6.209

• Male

  HighestSouth Sudan67.821

  LowestAzerbaijan0.023

  Middle country: 6.880

• +14 / −41countries joined / left
• 107values changed, of 107 in both
• 58 · 49rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Brazil+ Comoros+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Grenada+ Kyrgyzstan+ Mauritania+ Oman+ Saudi Arabia+ Serbia+ South Sudan+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Zambia− Angola− Argentina− Antigua and Barbuda− Belgium− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Canada− Republic of the Congo− Cyprus− Czechia− Dominica− Ecuador− United Kingdom− Greece− Guyana− Croatia− Iran− Iceland− Italy− Japan− Sri Lanka− North Macedonia− Mali− Malta− Montenegro− Montserrat− Nigeria− Nicaragua− Netherlands− Portugal− Palestine− Romania− Russia− Singapore− Slovenia− Sint Maarten− Timor-Leste− Tunisia− Türkiye− Uruguay− Venezuela− 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.

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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.

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