Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Pakistan

Children out of school in Pakistan in 2024 — 5,434,996 people. Ranked 120 in the world out of 120. Since 2021, the indicator has fallen by 40.5%.

2024 5.43M people −35.22% vs 2023
World rank 120of 120
Period maximum 9.14M people2021
Period minimum 5.43M people2024

Trend over time

2021–2024 · people

Children out of school — Pakistan, 2021–20245M6M7M8M9M10M20212022202320242021: 9,136,437 people2022: 8,625,053 people2023: 8,389,473 people2024: 5,434,996 people
Change over the period: −3.7M (−40.51%) Average annual rate: -15.9 %

Comparison, 2024

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

Pakistan 5.43M people
South Asia computed 6.54M people
Southern Asia computed 6.54M people
Lower-middle-income countries computed 14.69M people
Children out of school — Pakistan, by year Pakistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 5.43M −2.95M −35.22%
2023 8.39M −235,580 −2.73%
2022 8.63M −511,384 −5.6%
2021 9.14M

Southern Asia, 2024

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.