Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — South-Eastern Asia

Children out of school in South-Eastern Asia in 2024 — 2,660,142 people. Since 2006, the indicator has fallen by 33.8%.

2024 2.66M people +8.19% vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 4.37M people2018
Period minimum 354,615 people2012

Trend over time

2006–2024 · people

Children out of school — South-Eastern Asia, 2006–202402M4M6M20062008201020122014201620182020202220242006: 4,017,567 people2007: 3,478,543 people2008: 3,466,703 people2009: 2,766,275 people2010: 527,795 people2011: 804,509 people2012: 354,615 people2014: 2,794,623 people2015: 1,980,834 people2016: 3,716,999 people2017: 4,039,853 people2018: 4,367,879 people2019: 2,588,689 people2020: 2,812,395 people2021: 2,970,444 people2022: 2,885,661 people2023: 2,458,768 people2024: 2,660,142 people
Change over the period: −1.36M (−33.79%) Average annual rate: -2.26 %
Children out of school — South-Eastern Asia, by year South-Eastern Asia All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 2.66M +201,374 +8.19%
2023 2.46M −426,893 −14.79%
2022 2.89M −84,783 −2.85%
2021 2.97M +158,049 +5.62%
2020 2.81M +223,706 +8.64%
2019 2.59M −1.78M −40.73%
2018 4.37M +328,026 +8.12%
2017 4.04M +322,854 +8.69%
2016 3.72M +1.74M +87.65%
2015 1.98M −813,789 −29.12%
2014 2.79M
2012 354,615 −449,894 −55.92%
2011 804,509 +276,714 +52.43%
2010 527,795 −2.24M −80.92%
2009 2.77M −700,428 −20.2%
2008 3.47M −11,840 −0.34%
2007 3.48M −539,024 −13.42%
2006 4.02M

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.