Education

Children out of school

SE.PRM.UNER

Annual series published by the World Bank. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.

Countries compared

8 countries compared out of 142 available.

Latest known value: 3,326 for United Kingdom in 2023, over a series running from 2000 to 2023 and 8 countries compared, from the highest (China, 8.25 m) to the lowest (Lithuania, 156).

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Year by year values

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Annual values by country
	United Kingdom	Spain	Netherlands	United States	China	South Sudan	Sierra Leone	Lithuania
2024		34,050				1.2 m		156
2023	3,326	35,806	5,698					120
2022	3,458	35,604	4,446	965,853				27
2021	1,601	40,101	2,114	996,160				4
2020	1,260	39,965	1,937	489,065				133
2019	2,533	47,054	1,416	224,977				222
2018	14,916	59,102	2,928	141,533				188
2017	37,098	68,903	2,274	104,711				107
2016	59,716	75,587		88,850				152
2015	66,907	79,588		446,256		1.15 m	12,746	56
2014	75,047	75,432						69
2013	83,792	71,360		711,515			13,336	116
2012	81,776	64,111					33,425
2011	46,270	53,950				887,775	61,582
2010	23,362	48,223
2009	31,426	23,183
2008	16,367	14,385
2007	101,041	2,320
2006	44,924	4,285
2005	3,486	3,433		135,557
2004	25,967	1,772
2003	1,887	2,051						197
2002	1,175	1,002						480
2001	2,186	576						639
2000	2,385
1997					8.25 m
1996					9.46 m
1995					10.1 m
1994					11.12 m
1993					10.62 m
1992					9.98 m
1991					8.65 m
1990					7.87 m
1989					4.53 m
1988					2.75 m
1987					3.84 m
1983							335,881

World Bank definition

Children out of school, primary

Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.

Text published by the World Bank for indicator SE.PRM.UNER, reproduced unchanged.

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