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Children out of school, primary

children · Annual · 205 of 218 countries (94 %) · 1970–2025
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World total
27.2M
across 120 countries, 2024
Latest observation
2025
Source updated
13 Jul 2026
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11 Sep 2026
Snapshot 20260911T072322Z

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One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.

1970–2025 · 120 countries
Children out of school, primary, 2024World map of Children out of school, primary (2024) for 120 countries, from 4 to 5.43M.Fiji: 2,471Tanzania: 2.01MW. Sahara: —Canada: —United States: —Kazakhstan: 102,766Uzbekistan: 15,824Papua New Guinea: —Indonesia: 310,418Argentina: —Chile: 31,779DR Congo: —Somalia: —Kenya: —Sudan: —Chad: 855,041Haiti: —Dominican Republic: 56,334Russia: —Bahamas: 4,585Falkland Is.: —Norway: 6,077Greenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: —South Africa: —Lesotho: 124,175Mexico: 46,859Uruguay: —Brazil: 316,818Bolivia: 136,027Peru: —Colombia: —Panama: 35,837Costa Rica: 19,701Nicaragua: —Honduras: 346,452El Salvador: 57,339Guatemala: 201,342Belize: 4,953Venezuela: —Guyana: —Suriname: 10,697France: 8,155Ecuador: —Puerto Rico: 21,785Jamaica: 9,419Cuba: 33,328Zimbabwe: 332,314Botswana: —Namibia: 4,230Senegal: 675,615Mali: —Mauritania: 291,098Benin: —Niger: 1.88MNigeria: —Cameroon: 173,924Togo: 9,263Ghana: 235,313Côte d'Ivoire: 650,800Guinea: —Guinea-Bissau: —Liberia: —Sierra Leone: —Burkina Faso: 1.36MCentral African Republic: —Republic of the Congo: —Gabon: —Equatorial Guinea: —Zambia: 136,539Malawi: —Mozambique: —Eswatini: —Angola: —Burundi: —Israel: 28,644Lebanon: 146,896Madagascar: 135,621Palestine: —Gambia: 82,678Tunisia: —Algeria: 78,645Jordan: 21,351United Arab Emirates: 21Qatar: 8,638Kuwait: —Iraq: —Oman: 21,922Vanuatu: 1,261Cambodia: 76,741Thailand: 24,588Laos: 81,506Myanmar: —Vietnam: 144,562North Korea: —South Korea: 1,383Mongolia: 35,209India: 119,749Bangladesh: 918,575Bhutan: 8,385Nepal: 57,449Pakistan: 5.43MAfghanistan: —Tajikistan: —Kyrgyzstan: 18,748Turkmenistan: 28,415Iran: —Syria: 581,845Armenia: 1,710Sweden: 4,270Belarus: 20,600Ukraine: 193,775Poland: 1,392Austria: 5,200Hungary: 10,500Moldova: 588Romania: —Lithuania: 156Latvia: 3,481Estonia: 3,091Germany: 8,820Bulgaria: 14,529Greece: —Türkiye: —Albania: 617Croatia: —Switzerland: 787Luxembourg: 111Belgium: —Netherlands: —Portugal: —Spain: 34,050Ireland: —New Caledonia: —Solomon Islands: 36,440New Zealand: 10,396Australia: 2,833Sri Lanka: —China: —Taiwan: —Italy: —Denmark: 3,868United Kingdom: —Iceland: —Azerbaijan: 152Georgia: 21,241Philippines: 1.62MMalaysia: 404,724Brunei: 1,438Slovenia: —Finland: 6,433Slovakia: 2,535Czechia: —Eritrea: —Japan: —Paraguay: 105,859Yemen: —Saudi Arabia: 17,458N. Cyprus: —Cyprus: —Morocco: —Egypt: 559,709Libya: —Ethiopia: 4.24MDjibouti: —Somaliland: —Uganda: —Rwanda: 19,504Bosnia and Herzegovina: —North Macedonia: —Serbia: 8,749Montenegro: —Kosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: 9,223South Sudan: 1.2M
Children out of school, primary, 2024
  • 4 – 772
  • 772 – 4,417
  • 4,417 – 15,176
  • 15,176 – 39,913
  • 39,913 – 207,004
  • 207,004 – 5.43M
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Definition

Definition
Unit
children
Frequency
Annual
Aggregation
sum · Lower is better
Valid range
0 – ∞

Sources & provenance

Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.

  1. Priority #1
    World BankWDISE.PRM.UNERok
    205 countries · 4,644 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0

    Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school. Source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Bulk file (csv), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

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Countries without data

98 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.

Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.

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curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=out-of-school-children" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'

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