Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Japan

Children out of school in Japan in 2023 — 4,225 people. Ranked 50 in the world out of 148. Since 2013, the indicator has fallen by 94.5%.

2023 4,225 people −13.32% vs 2022
World rank 50of 148
Period maximum 77,384 people2013
Period minimum 4,225 people2023

Trend over time

2013–2023 · people

Children out of school — Japan, 2013–2023020,00040,00060,00080,000201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232013: 77,384 people2014: 5,601 people2015: 8,547 people2016: 7,807 people2017: 6,301 people2018: 7,076 people2019: 5,142 people2020: 5,944 people2021: 6,419 people2022: 4,874 people2023: 4,225 people
Change over the period: −73,159 (−94.54%) Average annual rate: -25.23 %

Comparison, 2023

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

Japan 4,225 people
World computed 44.51M people
East Asia & Pacific computed 2.57M people
Eastern Asia computed 47,155 people
High-income countries computed 878,264 people
Children out of school — Japan, by year Japan All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2023 4,225 −649 −13.32%
2022 4,874 −1,545 −24.07%
2021 6,419 +475 +7.99%
2020 5,944 +802 +15.6%
2019 5,142 −1,934 −27.33%
2018 7,076 +775 +12.3%
2017 6,301 −1,506 −19.29%
2016 7,807 −740 −8.66%
2015 8,547 +2,946 +52.6%
2014 5,601 −71,783 −92.76%
2013 77,384

Eastern Asia, 2023

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

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.