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Children out of school — Lower-middle-income countries

Children out of school in lower-middle-income countries in 2024 — 14,685,583 people. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 60.5%.

2024 14.69M people −52.24% vs 2023
World rank —
Period maximum 37.2M people2000
Period minimum 6.6M people2013

Trend over time

2000–2024 · people

Children out of school — Lower-middle-income countries, 2000–2024010M20M30M40M2000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 37,197,870 people2003: 23,142,969 people2005: 19,038,605 people2006: 19,386,158 people2007: 17,197,143 people2008: 20,197,140 people2009: 25,020,869 people2010: 20,409,856 people2011: 10,571,349 people2012: 9,495,893 people2013: 6,598,178 people2014: 10,350,944 people2015: 7,972,922 people2016: 14,327,611 people2017: 17,613,362 people2018: 16,177,345 people2019: 17,205,925 people2020: 12,966,106 people2021: 23,082,857 people2022: 19,718,063 people2023: 30,748,494 people2024: 14,685,583 people
Change over the period: −22.51M (−60.52%) Average annual rate: -3.8 %
Children out of school — Lower-middle-income countries, by year Lower-middle-income countries All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 14.69M −16.06M −52.24%
2023 30.75M +11.03M +55.94%
2022 19.72M −3.36M −14.58%
2021 23.08M +10.12M +78.02%
2020 12.97M −4.24M −24.64%
2019 17.21M +1.03M +6.36%
2018 16.18M −1.44M −8.15%
2017 17.61M +3.29M +22.93%
2016 14.33M +6.35M +79.7%
2015 7.97M −2.38M −22.97%
2014 10.35M +3.75M +56.88%
2013 6.6M −2.9M −30.52%
2012 9.5M −1.08M −10.17%
2011 10.57M −9.84M −48.2%
2010 20.41M −4.61M −18.43%
2009 25.02M +4.82M +23.88%
2008 20.2M +3M +17.44%
2007 17.2M −2.19M −11.29%
2006 19.39M +347,553 +1.83%
2005 19.04M — —
2003 23.14M — —
2000 37.2M — —

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.

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