Children out of school — all countries

Children out of school — Yemen

Children out of school in Yemen in 2016 — 1,551,489 people. Ranked 142 in the world out of 146. Since 1999, the indicator has fallen by 14.3%.

2016 1.55M people +17.96% vs 2013
World rank 142of 146
Period maximum 1.81M people1999
Period minimum 1.27M people2005

Trend over time

1999–2016 · people

Children out of school — Yemen, 1999–20161.2M1.4M1.6M1.8M2M19992001200320052007200920112013201520161999: 1,809,511 people2001: 1,606,437 people2003: 1,407,542 people2004: 1,321,351 people2005: 1,273,870 people2008: 1,405,218 people2010: 1,314,561 people2012: 1,294,592 people2013: 1,315,317 people2016: 1,551,489 people
Change over the period: −258,022 (−14.26%) Average annual rate: -0.9 %

Comparison, 2016

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

Yemen 1.55M people
World computed 29.38M people
Middle East & North Africa computed 3.99M people
Western Asia computed 2.03M people
Children out of school — Yemen, by year Yemen All countries CSV XLSX
Year people Change Change, %
2016 1.55M
2013 1.32M +20,725 +1.6%
2012 1.29M
2010 1.31M
2008 1.41M
2005 1.27M −47,481 −3.59%
2004 1.32M −86,191 −6.12%
2003 1.41M
2001 1.61M
1999 1.81M

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.