Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Tanzania

Children out of school in Tanzania in 2024 — 2,011,380 people. Ranked 118 in the world out of 120. Since 1976, the indicator has risen by 35.3%.

2024 2.01M people +19.58% vs 2023
World rank 118of 120
Period maximum 3.07M people1999
Period minimum 296,890 people2008

Trend over time

1976–2024 · people

Children out of school — Tanzania, 1976–202401M2M3M4M197619811986199119962001200620112016202120241976: 1,487,077 people1980: 1,062,312 people1981: 1,179,366 people1982: 1,439,024 people1983: 1,568,083 people1984: 1,789,407 people1985: 1,990,883 people1986: 2,139,691 people1987: 2,280,160 people1988: 2,432,582 people1989: 2,488,729 people1990: 2,572,700 people1991: 2,651,389 people1992: 2,681,167 people1993: 2,752,223 people1994: 2,857,316 people1995: 2,913,019 people1996: 2,952,834 people1997: 2,966,147 people1998: 3,043,017 people1999: 3,067,021 people2000: 2,896,644 people2001: 2,649,023 people2002: 1,706,576 people2003: 1,180,204 people2004: 932,181 people2005: 671,080 people2006: 333,527 people2008: 296,890 people2010: 824,620 people2011: 913,005 people2012: 1,206,867 people2013: 1,502,952 people2014: 1,674,221 people2015: 1,924,848 people2016: 2,098,243 people2017: 2,224,318 people2018: 1,802,747 people2019: 1,557,721 people2020: 1,484,665 people2021: 1,439,150 people2022: 1,513,859 people2023: 1,682,043 people2024: 2,011,380 people
Change over the period: +524,303 (+35.26%) Average annual rate: 0.63 %

Comparison, 2024

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

Tanzania 2.01M people
Lower-middle-income countries computed 14.69M people
Children out of school — Tanzania, by year Tanzania All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2024 2.01M +329,337 +19.58%
2023 1.68M +168,184 +11.11%
2022 1.51M +74,709 +5.19%
2021 1.44M −45,515 −3.07%
2020 1.48M −73,056 −4.69%
2019 1.56M −245,026 −13.59%
2018 1.8M −421,571 −18.95%
2017 2.22M +126,075 +6.01%
2016 2.1M +173,395 +9.01%
2015 1.92M +250,627 +14.97%
2014 1.67M +171,269 +11.4%
2013 1.5M +296,085 +24.53%
2012 1.21M +293,862 +32.19%
2011 913,005 +88,385 +10.72%
2010 824,620
2008 296,890
2006 333,527 −337,553 −50.3%
2005 671,080 −261,101 −28.01%
2004 932,181 −248,023 −21.02%
2003 1.18M −526,372 −30.84%
2002 1.71M −942,447 −35.58%
2001 2.65M −247,621 −8.55%
2000 2.9M −170,377 −5.56%
1999 3.07M +24,004 +0.79%
1998 3.04M +76,870 +2.59%
1997 2.97M +13,313 +0.45%
1996 2.95M +39,815 +1.37%
1995 2.91M +55,703 +1.95%
1994 2.86M +105,093 +3.82%
1993 2.75M +71,056 +2.65%
1992 2.68M +29,778 +1.12%
1991 2.65M +78,689 +3.06%
1990 2.57M +83,971 +3.37%
1989 2.49M +56,147 +2.31%
1988 2.43M +152,422 +6.68%
1987 2.28M +140,469 +6.56%
1986 2.14M +148,808 +7.47%
1985 1.99M +201,476 +11.26%
1984 1.79M +221,324 +14.11%
1983 1.57M +129,059 +8.97%
1982 1.44M +259,658 +22.02%
1981 1.18M +117,054 +11.02%
1980 1.06M
1976 1.49M

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.