Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — ASEAN

Children out of school in ASEAN in 2024 — 2,660,142 people. Since 2001, the indicator has fallen by 23.7%.

2024 2.66M people +8.77% vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 4.36M people2018
Period minimum 342,418 people2012

Trend over time

2001–2024 · people

Children out of school — ASEAN, 2001–202402M4M6M2001200420072010201320162019202220242001: 3,484,830 people2002: 3,714,991 people2003: 3,724,898 people2005: 3,966,116 people2006: 4,017,567 people2007: 3,478,543 people2008: 3,447,136 people2009: 2,753,698 people2010: 517,132 people2011: 797,047 people2012: 342,418 people2014: 2,781,608 people2015: 1,968,024 people2016: 3,703,159 people2017: 4,030,658 people2018: 4,357,404 people2019: 2,578,135 people2020: 2,802,918 people2021: 2,970,444 people2022: 2,885,661 people2023: 2,445,683 people2024: 2,660,142 people
Change over the period: −824,688 (−23.67%) Average annual rate: -1.17 %
Children out of school — ASEAN, by year ASEAN All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 2.66M +214,459 +8.77%
2023 2.45M −439,978 −15.25%
2022 2.89M −84,783 −2.85%
2021 2.97M +167,526 +5.98%
2020 2.8M +224,783 +8.72%
2019 2.58M −1.78M −40.83%
2018 4.36M +326,746 +8.11%
2017 4.03M +327,499 +8.84%
2016 3.7M +1.74M +88.17%
2015 1.97M −813,584 −29.25%
2014 2.78M
2012 342,418 −454,629 −57.04%
2011 797,047 +279,915 +54.13%
2010 517,132 −2.24M −81.22%
2009 2.75M −693,438 −20.12%
2008 3.45M −31,407 −0.9%
2007 3.48M −539,024 −13.42%
2006 4.02M +51,451 +1.3%
2005 3.97M
2003 3.72M +9,907 +0.27%
2002 3.71M +230,161 +6.6%
2001 3.48M

About the indicator

The number of children of primary school age who attend neither primary nor secondary school. The absolute count answers the question of the scale of the task rather than of the state of a country, and for that reason it diverges from the share: a large part of all out-of-school children in the world lives in a few big countries where the share is low, not in those where the share is high. Both numbers matter for planning, and together they produce different lists of priorities.

Important: Primary school age only. Adolescents who do not attend secondary school are not part of this series, although there are more of them.

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