Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Papua New Guinea

Children out of school in Papua New Guinea in 2021 — 53,289 people. Ranked 101 in the world out of 145. Since 1989, the indicator has fallen by 68.5%.

2021 53,289 people +28.58% vs 2020
World rank 101of 145
Period maximum 384,354 people2014
Period minimum 11,662 people2018

Trend over time

1989–2021 · people

Children out of school — Papua New Guinea, 1989–20210100,000200,000300,000400,0001989199319972001200520092013201720211989: 169,284 people2012: 339,432 people2014: 384,354 people2016: 131,536 people2018: 11,662 people2019: 20,958 people2020: 41,444 people2021: 53,289 people
Change over the period: −115,995 (−68.52%) Average annual rate: -3.55 %

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea 53,289 people
World computed 38.12M people
Lower-middle-income countries computed 23.08M people
Children out of school — Papua New Guinea, by year Papua New Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2021 53,289 +11,846 +28.58%
2020 41,444 +20,486 +97.75%
2019 20,958 +9,295 +79.7%
2018 11,662
2016 131,536
2014 384,354
2012 339,432
1989 169,284

Melanesia, 2021

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

VU Vanuatu 67 PG Papua New Guinea 53,289

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.