Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — G20

Children out of school in the G20 in 2023 — 2,885,136 people. Since 2012, the indicator has risen by 23.1%.

2023 2.89M people −1.79% vs 2022
World rank
Period maximum 11.71M people2018
Period minimum 2.32M people2014

Trend over time

2012–2023 · people

Children out of school — G20, 2012–202305M10M15M20122014201620182020202220232012: 2,343,376 people2013: 3,172,792 people2014: 2,321,641 people2015: 2,367,809 people2016: 8,035,628 people2017: 10,951,760 people2018: 11,707,145 people2019: 11,098,694 people2020: 7,750,874 people2021: 5,665,745 people2022: 2,937,587 people2023: 2,885,136 people
Change over the period: +541,760 (+23.12%) Average annual rate: 1.91 %

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: G20

G20 2.89M people
World computed 44.51M people
Children out of school — G20, by year G20 All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2023 2.89M −52,451 −1.79%
2022 2.94M −2.73M −48.15%
2021 5.67M −2.09M −26.9%
2020 7.75M −3.35M −30.16%
2019 11.1M −608,451 −5.2%
2018 11.71M +755,385 +6.9%
2017 10.95M +2.92M +36.29%
2016 8.04M +5.67M +239.37%
2015 2.37M +46,168 +1.99%
2014 2.32M −851,151 −26.83%
2013 3.17M +829,416 +35.39%
2012 2.34M

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.