Macro Indicators · SE.PRM.UNER.ZS
Children out of school (% of primary school age)
Children out of school (% of primary school age) data
Unweighted average of the 24 countries reporting in 2024
15.2% of children in primary school age
-3.4% on 2014. Country values run from 0.64 to 64.7 % of children in primary school age. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 50
- Years
- 2000–2024
- Observations
- 757
- Source
- World Bank WDI
Countries
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Years
2000 – 2024 · 25 years
Annual values by country, 2000 to 2024
World Bank WDI · % of children in primary school age · hover or use the arrow keys to read a year
- Algeria
- Burkina Faso
- Lesotho
3 countries · 25 years · 757 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in % of children in primary school age
| Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria DZ | 5.3 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.79 | 0.87 | 0.52 | 0.89 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.83 | 0.66 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 0.41 | 0.47 | 0.42 | 0.73 | 1.9 | 0.25 | 0.88 | 2.1 | 0.93 | 1.6 |
| Burkina Faso BF | 65.1 | 63.9 | 64.8 | 62.4 | 60.2 | 55.3 | 51.7 | 46.5 | 40.5 | 37.6 | 41 | 36.5 | 35.6 | 34.7 | 33.8 | 32.5 | 27.2 | 26.4 | 24.5 | 25.8 | 28.5 | 29.1 | 32.3 | 42 | 34.3 |
| Lesotho LS | 25.5 | 23.2 | 20.4 | 18 | 18.2 | 16.7 | 14 | 16 | 15.2 | 15.9 | 15.2 | 14.9 | 14.8 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 16.7 | 16.2 | 14.8 | 20.2 | 22.9 | 24.3 | 30.3 | 29.4 | 30.7 | 32.2 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- SE.PRM.UNER.ZS
- Unit
- % of children in primary school age
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Macro Indicators
Values as published by World Bank WDI: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at data.worldbank.org.
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