Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — BRICS

Children out of school in BRICS in 2023 — 2,580,627 people. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 92.6%.

2023 2.58M people +70.81% vs 2022
World rank
Period maximum 34.86M people1990
Period minimum 1.51M people2022

Trend over time

1990–2023 · people

Children out of school — BRICS, 1990–2023010M20M30M40M1990199419982002200620102014201820221990: 34,864,740 people1994: 14,148,388 people1995: 13,582,229 people2012: 2,332,301 people2013: 2,054,894 people2016: 7,745,160 people2017: 10,737,741 people2018: 11,318,406 people2019: 10,736,801 people2020: 7,045,830 people2021: 4,191,385 people2022: 1,510,819 people2023: 2,580,627 people
Change over the period: −32.28M (−92.6%) Average annual rate: -7.59 %

Comparison, 2023

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

BRICS 2.58M people
World computed 44.51M people
Children out of school — BRICS, by year BRICS All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2023 2.58M +1.07M +70.81%
2022 1.51M −2.68M −63.95%
2021 4.19M −2.85M −40.51%
2020 7.05M −3.69M −34.38%
2019 10.74M −581,606 −5.14%
2018 11.32M +580,665 +5.41%
2017 10.74M +2.99M +38.64%
2016 7.75M
2013 2.05M −277,407 −11.89%
2012 2.33M
1995 13.58M −566,159 −4%
1994 14.15M
1990 34.86M

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.