Children out of school, female

Children out of school are the percentage of primary-school-age children who are not enrolled in primary or secondary school. Children in the official primary age group that are in preprimary education should be considered out of school.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
203
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO

    Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Bulk file (csv), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Burundi202524.89percent
Gambia202510.22percent
Kazakhstan20258.67percent
Kyrgyzstan20252.70percent
Lao People's Democratic Republic202510.40percent
Nauru20254.61percent
Nepal20251.45percent
Thailand20251.26percent
Andorra20242.94percent
Austria20241.47percent

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