Out-of-school rate, adolescents of lower secondary school age
Share of adolescents of official lower secondary school age who are not enrolled in primary, secondary or higher education.
143 countries have a value for 2023, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
Trend over time
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% of adolescents of lower secondary school age. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
Flags: nat_est National estimate; uis_est UIS estimate . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 143 countries with a value for 2023, the highest is Niger (73.8%) and the lowest United Arab Emirates (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 5.4% and half below.
- From 2022 to 2023 the value rose in 23 countries and fell in 11.
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All countries in 2023 Every value is for 2023, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Niger 73.8%
- 2 Senegal 65.4%
- 3 Chad 58.6%
- 4 Burkina Faso 55.5%
- 5 Ethiopia 52.6%
- 6 Syria 51.8%
- 7 Tanzania 49.7%
- 8 Cameroon 47.1%
- 9 Honduras 45.0%
- 10 Madagascar 39.2%
- 11 Guatemala 37.4%
- 12 Laos 35.4%
- 13 Lebanon 32.7%
- 14 Côte d'Ivoire 32.3%
- 15 Lesotho 32.0%
- 16 Papua New Guinea 31.3%
- 17 Suriname 31.1%
- 18 Pakistan 30.4%
- 19 Malawi 28.9%
- 20 Togo 27.4%
- 21 Guyana 26.7%
- 22 Bangladesh 23.6%
- 23 Solomon Islands 23.5%
- 24 British Virgin Islands 23.5%
- 25 El Salvador 22.3%
- 26 Angola 21.9%
- 27 Jamaica 20.7%
- 28 Panama 20.4%
- 29 Micronesia 19.9%
- 30 Malaysia 17.3%
- 31 Nicaragua 16.5%
- 32 Romania 16.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 33 Paraguay 15.9%
- 34 Saint Lucia 15.0%
- 35 Puerto Rico (US) 14.8%
- 36 India 14.6%
- 37 Cambodia 14.4%
- 38 Gambia 14.2%
- 39 Zimbabwe 14.1%
- 40 Ecuador 13.6%
- 41 Philippines 10.9%
- 42 Bhutan 10.6%
- 43 Turks and Caicos Islands 10.5%
- 44 Mauritius 10.4%
- 45 Dominican Republic 9.8%
- 46 Bahamas 9.8%
- 47 Macao SAR, China 9.8%
- 48 South Africa 9.6%
- 49 Naoero 9.6%
- 50 Tuvalu 9.4%
- 51 Azerbaijan 9.3%
- 52 Ukraine 9.1%
- 53 San Marino 8.7%
- 54 Sierra Leone 8.5%
- 55 Mexico 8.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 56 Kyrgyzstan 8.1%
- 57 Egypt 7.8%
- 58 Kiribati 7.6%
- 59 Iran 7.6%
- 60 Dominica 7.5%
- 61 Bolivia 7.4%
- 62 Vanuatu 7.2%
- 63 Qatar 7.2%
- 64 Sri Lanka 6.5%
- 65 Mongolia 6.4%
- 66 Costa Rica 6.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 67 Cuba 6.2%
- 68 Armenia 6.2%
- 69 Bulgaria 6.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 70 Belize 6.1%
- 71 West Bank and Gaza 6.0%
- 72 Albania 5.4%
- 73 Indonesia 5.1%
- 74 Morocco 4.7%
- 75 Jordan 4.6%
- 76 Rwanda 4.5%
- 77 Algeria 4.2%
- 78 Maldives 4.2%
- 79 Belarus 4.1%
- 80 Kazakhstan 4.0%
- 81 Nepal 3.8%
- 82 Cayman Islands 3.5%
- 83 Marshall Islands 3.3%
- 84 Viet Nam 3.0%
- 85 Uzbekistan 2.9%
- 86 Fiji 2.8%
- 87 Hungary 2.7%nat_est (National estimate)
- 88 New Zealand 2.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 89 Latvia 2.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 90 Estonia 2.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 91 Palau 2.0%
- 92 Spain 2.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 93 Andorra 2.0%
- 94 Italy 1.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 95 Luxembourg 1.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 96 Malta 1.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 97 Georgia 1.9%
- 98 Australia 1.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 99 South Korea 1.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 100 Seychelles 1.8%
- 101 Namibia 1.8%
- 102 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.7%
- 103 Slovakia 1.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 104 Iceland 1.6%
- 105 Belgium 1.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 106 Uruguay 1.5%
- 107 Austria 1.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 108 Barbados 1.4%
- 109 Slovenia 1.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 110 United Kingdom 1.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 111 Canada 1.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 112 Hong Kong SAR, China 1.2%
- 113 Chile 1.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 114 Finland 1.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 115 Denmark 1.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 116 Greece 1.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 117 Moldova 0.9%
- 118 Türkiye 0.9%
- 119 Norway 0.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 120 Argentina 0.8%
- 121 Antigua and Barbuda 0.8%
- 122 Samoa 0.7%
- 123 Netherlands 0.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 124 Germany 0.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 125 Brunei 0.5%
- 126 Portugal 0.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 127 Tonga 0.4%
- 128 Czechia 0.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 129 Singapore 0.4%
- 130 Sweden 0.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 131 Russia 0.3%
- 132 Bahrain 0.2%
- 133 Israel 0.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 134 France 0.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 135 Poland 0.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 136 Thailand 0.1%
- 137 Lithuania 0.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 138 Montenegro 0.1%
- 139 Cyprus 0.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 140 Switzerland 0.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 141 Japan 0.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 142 Curaçao 0.0%
- 143 United Arab Emirates 0.0%
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Grey: no value for 2023. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.