Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age, 2020

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Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Out-of-school rate, lower secondary age (%)	Female	Male
1	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	51.267	50.697	51.839
2	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	49.730	48.136	51.251
3	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	48.684	46.443	50.862
4	BeninBENWestern Africa	46.720	50.376	43.177
5	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	45.398	47.540	43.370
6	HondurasHNDCentral America	44.494	42.535	46.362
7	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	40.354	39.648	41.046
8	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	36.907	38.306	35.650
9	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	35.418	32.416	38.411
10	LebanonLBNWestern Asia	35.086	32.045	37.901
11	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	34.839	33.382	36.268
12	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	33.432	36.162	30.764
13	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	32.885	35.949	29.818
14	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	30.314	30.423	30.208
15	SurinameSURSouth America	28.076	26.959	29.160
16	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	25.669	21.931	29.398
17	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	25.164	24.090	26.239
18	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	23.975	22.474	25.453
19	MicronesiaFSMMicronesia	23.273	23.700	22.841
20	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	22.504	22.948	22.091
21	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	22.429	16.333	28.416
22	El SalvadorSLVCentral America	21.758	20.336	23.096
23	PanamaPANCentral America	20.985	20.036	21.892
24	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	20.380	17.821	22.735
25	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	20.289	17.350	23.092

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.133. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestMauritania50.697

  LowestFrance0.002

  Middle country: 6.130

• Male

  HighestMauritania51.839

  LowestFrance0.071

  Middle country: 6.885

• +17 / −12countries joined / left
• 126values changed, of 126 in both
• 68 · 58rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Benin+ Curaçao+ Fiji+ Guyana+ India+ Iran+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Liberia+ Niue+ Palau+ Paraguay+ Syria+ United States+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Vanuatu− Antigua and Barbuda− Bahrain− Gabon− Jamaica− Niger− Nauru− Romania− Rwanda− Sudan− Eswatini− Chad− Tanzania

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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