Share of children out of school — all countries

Share of children out of school — North Korea

Share of children out of school in North Korea in 2009 — 0.51%. Ranked 14 in the world out of 127.

2009 0.51%
World rank 14of 127
Period maximum 0.51%2009
Period minimum 0.51%2009

Trend over time

2009–2009 · % of primary school-age children

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2009

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: North Korea

North Korea 0.51%
Eastern Asia computed 0.93%
Share of children out of school — North Korea, by year North Korea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2009 0.51

Eastern Asia, 2009

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

The share of children of primary school age not attending school. Unlike the absolute count, the indicator speaks to the state of the education system in a country, and it shows that the task does not reduce to poverty: at comparable income the shares differ severalfold, and the highest values come from countries where schooling is obstructed by conflict or by a nomadic way of life.

Important: The aggregate is weighted by the number of children aged 0–14: total population is the wrong weight here — the share of children differs fourfold across countries.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.