Out-of-school rate, youth of upper secondary school age
Share of young people of official upper secondary school age who are not enrolled in primary, secondary or higher education.
148 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 youth of upper 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 148 countries with a value for 2023, the highest is Niger (88.5%) and the lowest Portugal (0.1%).
- Half of the countries are above 18.7% and half below.
- From 2022 to 2023 the value rose in 21 countries and fell in 13.
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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 88.5%
- 2 Tanzania 84.7%
- 3 Senegal 83.2%
- 4 Burkina Faso 75.7%
- 5 Chad 74.4%
- 6 Syria 71.8%
- 7 Malawi 70.3%
- 8 Ethiopia 70.1%
- 9 Madagascar 69.7%
- 10 Cameroon 64.8%
- 11 Guatemala 63.2%
- 12 Papua New Guinea 61.9%
- 13 Honduras 60.6%
- 14 San Marino 60.2%
- 15 Lesotho 59.4%
- 16 Laos 59.3%
- 17 Suriname 56.4%
- 18 Togo 54.9%
- 19 Lebanon 54.7%
- 20 Angola 51.4%
- 21 Cambodia 50.4%
- 22 Pakistan 48.6%
- 23 Zimbabwe 48.5%
- 24 Côte d'Ivoire 47.9%
- 25 Russia 44.8%
- 26 El Salvador 44.5%
- 27 India 43.0%
- 28 Gambia 42.2%
- 29 Micronesia 39.0%
- 30 Rwanda 38.3%
- 31 Kenya 37.6%
- 32 Nicaragua 37.0%
- 33 Guyana 36.6%
- 34 Tuvalu 36.3%
- 35 Solomon Islands 36.1%
- 36 Malaysia 35.3%
- 37 Dominican Republic 32.9%
- 38 Maldives 31.9%
- 39 Tonga 31.4%
- 40 Egypt 30.2%
- 41 Kyrgyzstan 29.3%
- 42 Mexico 28.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 43 Belize 28.1%
- 44 Panama 27.8%
- 45 British Virgin Islands 27.3%
- 46 Paraguay 27.3%
- 47 Sierra Leone 27.1%
- 48 Romania 26.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 49 Naoero 26.7%
- 50 Ukraine 26.3%
- 51 Brunei 25.8%
- 52 Puerto Rico (US) 25.3%
- 53 Bangladesh 24.8%
- 54 Indonesia 24.3%
- 55 West Bank and Gaza 24.1%
- 56 Bhutan 23.6%
- 57 Morocco 22.9%
- 58 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22.8%
- 59 Cuba 22.5%
- 60 Iran 22.5%
- 61 Samoa 22.0%
- 62 Venezuela 21.9%
- 63 Fiji 21.8%
- 64 Sri Lanka 21.5%
- 65 Mauritius 20.6%
- 66 Philippines 20.3%
- 67 Saint Lucia 20.3%
- 68 Namibia 20.2%
- 69 Iceland 19.5%
- 70 Bolivia 19.0%
- 71 Nepal 19.0%
- 72 Bahamas 19.0%
- 73 Saint Kitts and Nevis 18.9%
- 74 Qatar 18.8%
- 75 Jamaica 18.7%
- 76 Thailand 18.6%
- 77 Marshall Islands 17.8%
- 78 Seychelles 17.7%
- 79 Jordan 17.4%
- 80 Andorra 17.0%
- 81 Algeria 16.8%
- 82 Azerbaijan 15.7%
- 83 Canada 15.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 84 Palau 14.5%
- 85 Macao SAR, China 14.0%
- 86 Moldova 13.9%
- 87 Montenegro 13.3%
- 88 South Africa 13.1%
- 89 Ecuador 12.1%
- 90 Cayman Islands 11.5%
- 91 Costa Rica 11.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 92 Dominica 11.3%
- 93 Albania 11.3%
- 94 Luxembourg 11.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 95 Armenia 10.8%
- 96 Bulgaria 10.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 97 Germany 10.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 98 Uruguay 10.5%
- 99 Hungary 10.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 100 Malta 10.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 101 Kiribati 10.4%
- 102 Estonia 9.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 103 Peru 9.4%uis_est (UIS estimate)
- 104 Denmark 8.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 105 Antigua and Barbuda 8.5%
- 106 Barbados 8.2%
- 107 Slovakia 8.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 108 Austria 8.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 109 Gibraltar 8.0%
- 110 Switzerland 7.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 111 Latvia 7.7%nat_est (National estimate)
- 112 Czechia 7.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 113 Croatia 7.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 114 New Zealand 6.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 115 Norway 6.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 116 Argentina 6.5%
- 117 Australia 6.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 118 Vanuatu 6.0%
- 119 Spain 5.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 120 Turks and Caicos Islands 5.7%
- 121 Italy 5.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 122 South Korea 5.5%nat_est (National estimate)
- 123 Uzbekistan 5.2%
- 124 United Kingdom 5.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 125 Belarus 5.0%
- 126 Curaçao 4.9%
- 127 Finland 4.7%nat_est (National estimate)
- 128 Mongolia 4.7%
- 129 France 4.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 130 Greece 3.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 131 Slovenia 3.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 132 Kazakhstan 3.3%
- 133 Japan 2.9%nat_est (National estimate)
- 134 Sweden 2.8%nat_est (National estimate)
- 135 Lithuania 2.7%nat_est (National estimate)
- 136 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2.5%
- 137 Israel 2.3%nat_est (National estimate)
- 138 Netherlands 2.1%nat_est (National estimate)
- 139 Bahrain 1.6%
- 140 Belgium 1.6%nat_est (National estimate)
- 141 Georgia 1.5%
- 142 Chile 1.4%nat_est (National estimate)
- 143 Cyprus 1.2%nat_est (National estimate)
- 144 Poland 1.0%nat_est (National estimate)
- 145 Türkiye 0.8%
- 146 Singapore 0.6%
- 147 United Arab Emirates 0.2%
- 148 Portugal 0.1%nat_est (National estimate)
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