Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Latin America & Caribbean

Children out of school in Latin America & Caribbean in 2023 — 1,309,567 people. Since 2023, the indicator has risen by 0%.

2023 1.31M people
World rank
Period maximum 1.31M people2023
Period minimum 1.31M people2023

Trend over time

2023–2023 · people

Change over the period: +0 (+0%)

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Latin America & Caribbean

Latin America & Caribbean 1.31M people
World computed 44.51M people
Children out of school — Latin America & Caribbean, by year Latin America & Caribbean All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2023 1.31M

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.