Skip to content
Argos Sourcing

Education

Children out of school

SE.PRM.UNER

Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Nicaragua, Switzerland. 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.

Latest value, United Kingdom
3,3262023
Period covered
2000 - 202324 annual values
Highest of the compared countries
8.25 mChina, 1997
Lowest of the compared countries
787Switzerland, 2024

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

02.5 M5 M7.5 M10 M12.5 M19701984199720112024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China8.25 m1997
  • United States965,8532022
  • Nicaragua53,4812023
  • Italy52,1172023
  • Spain34,0502024
  • Netherlands5,6982023
  • United Kingdom3,3262023
  • Switzerland7872024

Year by year values

Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.

Annual values by country
United KingdomItalySpainNetherlandsUnited StatesChinaNicaraguaSwitzerland
202434,050787
20233,32652,11735,8065,69853,481252
20223,45864,90735,6044,446965,8531,399
20211,60155,64040,1012,114996,1601,236
20201,26039,91239,9651,937489,065713
20192,53343,97147,0541,416224,977542
201814,91643,83259,1022,928141,533661
201737,09846,24368,9032,274104,711629
201659,71647,23675,58788,850425
201566,90742,52479,588446,256157
201475,04734,97275,43259
201383,79225,05071,360711,515212
201281,7769,48264,1116,515
201146,2708,25753,9504,576
201023,3626,07248,22334,4101,684
200931,4268,45823,1831,850
200816,36711,42114,38525,034
2007101,04111,0202,32029,622
200644,92410,2584,28523,739
20053,4869,9113,433135,5577,555

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.

The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia

Source: World Bank, World Bank Open Data Annual series, fetched server side and cached for 24 hours. The World Bank is never called from your browser.