Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age, 2023

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Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Out-of-school rate, lower secondary age (%)	Female	Male
1	NigerNERWestern Africa	73.800	74.3961	73.224
2	SenegalSENWestern Africa	65.364	60.5016	69.871
3	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	58.629	64.2105	53.209
4	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	55.534	51.9116	59.052
5	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	52.571	52.3895	52.747
6	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	51.752	49.5995	53.802
7	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	49.740	47.2804	52.177
8	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	47.098	48.9575	45.251
9	HondurasHNDCentral America	45.015	41.0481	46.439
10	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	39.198	37.9360	40.432
11	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	37.375	38.6648	36.116
12	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	35.403	35.2309	35.570
13	LebanonLBNWestern Asia	32.733	30.7576	34.606
14	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	32.312	32.3656	32.260
15	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	32.029	28.0025	36.039
16	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	31.275	32.9874	29.724
17	SurinameSURSouth America	31.104	7.0944	54.370
18	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	30.361	36.1342	24.853
19	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	28.891	24.8799	32.954
20	TogoTGOWestern Africa	27.448	29.2213	25.712
21	GuyanaGUYSouth America	26.670	28.0338	25.348
22	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	23.640	12.5196	33.757
23	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	23.499	22.0788	24.820
24	British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	23.468	24.3386	22.622
25	El SalvadorSLVCentral America	22.328	20.2263	24.288

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 5.405. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestNiger74.3961

  LowestGermany0.2332

  Middle country: 6.9755

• Male

  HighestNiger73.224

  LowestIsrael0.006

  Middle country: 7.860

• +16 / −18countries joined / left
• 129values changed, of 129 in both
• 62 · 67rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Angola+ Bahamas+ Curaçao+ Egypt+ Guyana+ Cambodia+ Mauritius+ Nicaragua+ Niue+ Papua New Guinea+ Puerto Rico+ Solomon Islands+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad+ Tanzania+ Ukraine− Anguilla− Benin− Brazil− Botswana− Colombia− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Ireland− Liberia− Mozambique− Oman− Peru− Serbia− Eswatini− Turkmenistan− United States− Venezuela

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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