Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Kenya

Children out of school in Kenya in 2023 — 468,923 people. Ranked 132 in the world out of 148. Since 1999, the indicator has fallen by 76.1%.

2023 468,923 people −82.66% vs 2022
World rank 132of 148
Period maximum 3M people2021
Period minimum 311,609 people2007

Trend over time

1999–2023 · people

Children out of school — Kenya, 1999–202301M2M3M1999200220052008201120142017202020231999: 1,963,801 people2000: 1,867,154 people2001: 1,470,292 people2002: 1,614,261 people2003: 837,525 people2004: 908,635 people2005: 861,156 people2006: 914,574 people2007: 311,609 people2008: 601,767 people2009: 505,601 people2012: 1,249,057 people2021: 2,996,749 people2022: 2,704,434 people2023: 468,923 people
Change over the period: −1.49M (−76.12%) Average annual rate: -5.79 %

Comparison, 2023

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

Kenya 468,923 people
World computed 44.51M people
Lower-middle-income countries computed 30.75M people
Children out of school — Kenya, by year Kenya All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2023 468,923 −2.24M −82.66%
2022 2.7M −292,315 −9.75%
2021 3M
2012 1.25M
2009 505,601 −96,166 −15.98%
2008 601,767 +290,158 +93.12%
2007 311,609 −602,965 −65.93%
2006 914,574 +53,418 +6.2%
2005 861,156 −47,479 −5.23%
2004 908,635 +71,110 +8.49%
2003 837,525 −776,736 −48.12%
2002 1.61M +143,969 +9.79%
2001 1.47M −396,862 −21.25%
2000 1.87M −96,647 −4.92%
1999 1.96M

Eastern Africa, 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.