Chad is the top country by out-of-school rate for children of lower secondary school age in the world. As of 2019, out-of-school rate for children of lower secondary school age in Chad was 62.2 %. The top 5 countries also includes Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Honduras, and Burundi.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Out-of-school rate for children of lower secondary school age (%). Total is the number of children of official lower secondary school age who are not enrolled in lower secondary school expressed as a percentage of the population of official lower secondary school age.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2018 | 2019 | |
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| Cambodia | 85.5 | 71.4 | 16.5 | 28.9 | 27.1 | 17.5 | 13.6 | ||||||
| Croatia | 7.0 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | ||||
| Cyprus | 4.6 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 0.3 | ||||
| Denmark | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | ||||
| Estonia | 2.5 | 1.1 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.2 | ||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 12.4 | 12.6 | 8.4 | 9.3 | 5.5 | ||||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 7.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||||
| Senegal | 54.7 | 48.3 | |||||||||||
| Seychelles | 0.5 | ||||||||||||
| South Africa | 8.4 | 8.3 | 14.4 | ||||||||||
| South Sudan | 50.1 | ||||||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 6.7 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Sudan | 56.2 | 36.9 | |||||||||||
| Swaziland | 49.0 | 19.4 | 16.5 | 15.0 | 11.7 | 12.5 | |||||||
| Syrian Arab Republic | 38.6 | 11.3 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 7.0 | 41.3 | |||||||
| Togo | 39.8 | 34.6 | |||||||||||
| United States | 1.7 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 0.3 | |||||
| West Bank and Gaza | 17.0 | 7.1 | 13.3 | 15.4 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 13.8 | 12.2 | 2.6 | 2.5 | |||
| Yemen, Rep. | 39.9 | 37.4 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 13.2 | 12.1 | 8.2 | ||||||||||
| Antigua and Barbuda | 3.7 | 5.6 | 1.4 | ||||||||||
| Mauritius | 12.1 | 6.8 | 4.6 | 4.7 | |||||||||
| Macao SAR, China | 17.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 10.1 | 10.7 | 13.3 | 13.8 | 13.8 | 12.9 | 2.5 | 2.2 | ||
| Turkey | 37.1 | 12.7 | 5.3 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 3.3 | 5.8 | 6.2 | ||||
| Mali | 52.3 | 49.6 | 49.8 | 46.6 | 45.5 | 52.8 | |||||||
| Lao PDR | 28.7 | 26.6 | 29.7 | 29.1 | 26.6 | 24.6 | 20.9 | 19.8 | 25.0 | 27.6 | |||
| Mexico | 25.9 | 18.0 | 10.1 | 12.6 | 13.6 | 13.9 | 7.8 | ||||||
| Bahamas, The | 3.1 | 9.3 | 29.5 | ||||||||||
| Philippines | 7.8 | 4.4 | 10.7 | ||||||||||
| Indonesia | 23.7 | 17.1 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 14.0 | 13.8 | 15.7 | 16.3 | |||||
| Netherlands | 9.0 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.5 | ||||||
| Korea, Rep. | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 2.7 | ||||
| Portugal | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Austria | 0.3 | ||||||||||||
| New Zealand | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.2 | |||||
| Spain | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Ireland | 4.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| Brunei Darussalam | 0.8 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 3.1 | |||||
| Luxembourg | 5.4 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.3 | |||||
| France | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |||||
| Belgium | 23.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| Greece | 5.7 | 10.2 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 4.0 | ||||||
| Costa Rica | 31.7 | 29.7 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 8.1 | 3.8 | 1.9 | ||||
| Cuba | 11.5 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 5.5 | 10.2 | ||
| Hong Kong SAR, China | 10.2 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 6.9 | 4.1 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.6 | ||||
| Barbados | 6.1 | 4.0 | 10.3 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 3.8 | 5.0 | ||||||
| Guatemala | 44.3 | 17.8 | 22.0 | 26.3 | 26.5 | 26.5 | 26.8 | 32.8 | |||||
| Jamaica | 10.6 | 4.6 | 19.2 | 17.3 | 16.6 | 17.9 | 17.9 | ||||||
| Bahrain | 2.1 | 3.0 | 9.8 | 10.8 | 6.0 | 2.8 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 3.7 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.1 | |||||
| Malta | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 0.9 | |||||||
| Peru | 29.1 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 9.6 | 5.2 | 8.4 | 10.0 | 1.8 | |||
| Oman | 14.3 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 2.0 | |||||||
| Burundi | 32.4 | 25.8 | 30.6 | 35.2 | 32.8 | 33.7 | |||||||
| Qatar | 10.9 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 6.4 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 5.1 | ||||
| Switzerland | 11.4 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |||
| Bulgaria | 4.5 | 2.3 | 12.6 | 10.7 | 9.5 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 4.5 | 12.9 | ||||
| Hungary | 2.3 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 3.2 | ||||
| Iceland | 8.2 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Dominica | 3.8 | 1.3 | 8.4 | 10.5 | 0.8 | 1.3 | |||||||
| Burkina Faso | 80.6 | 54.1 | 52.4 | 50.0 | 46.9 | 42.2 | 43.8 | 46.1 | |||||
| Australia | 2.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.5 | |||||
| Romania | 5.3 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 8.6 | 8.9 | ||||||
| Italy | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 2.1 | ||||
| St. Lucia | 9.1 | 18.5 | 9.4 | 11.7 | 12.0 | 14.2 | 9.5 | 11.9 | 9.7 | ||||
| Finland | 2.2 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 0.1 | ||||
| Eritrea | 62.4 | 58.3 | 55.3 | 55.7 | 57.0 | 61.7 | 61.8 | 61.3 | 36.1 | ||||
| Georgia | 14.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Slovenia | 3.5 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | |||||
| Cabo Verde | 5.9 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 13.5 | ||||||
| Lithuania | 0.3 | 0.3 | 7.3 | 6.0 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Ghana | 35.1 | 20.6 | 11.1 | 15.0 | 9.1 | 15.5 | 10.6 | ||||||
| Poland | 1.9 | 3.2 | 6.4 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.1 | |||||
| Dominican Republic | 16.1 | 8.0 | 9.9 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 10.7 | 5.6 | |||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 5.9 | 4.2 | 2.4 | ||||||||||
| Malawi | 33.3 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 17.4 | 17.3 | 18.6 | |||||||
| Ecuador | 27.4 | 24.2 | 7.4 | 6.4 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 4.8 | ||||
| Albania | 6.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | |||||||
| Belarus | 1.1 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.1 | ||||||
| Jordan | 10.7 | 8.1 | 9.6 | 16.0 | 30.8 | 29.5 | |||||||
| Morocco | 43.5 | 30.7 | 24.3 | 20.6 | 15.3 | 10.7 | 9.4 | ||||||
| Belize | 5.5 | 7.9 | 13.1 | 13.7 | 9.2 | 8.9 | 9.6 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 10.0 | |||
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.5 | 1.5 | |||||||||||
| Norway | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | ||||
| Bolivia | 3.5 | 1.6 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 2.8 | 9.5 | 7.0 | 9.2 | 13.5 | ||||
| Bhutan | 48.4 | 34.0 | 19.3 | 17.2 | 14.6 | 17.1 | 16.2 | 12.0 | |||||
| Maldives | 6.7 | 8.6 | |||||||||||
| Liechtenstein | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 4.0 | |||||||
| El Salvador | 15.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 17.0 | ||||
| Myanmar | 56.8 | 44.5 | 40.0 | 44.1 | 21.0 | ||||||||
| Marshall Islands | 21.8 | 30.9 | |||||||||||
| Moldova | 5.1 | 6.2 | 12.5 | 13.5 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 14.3 | 14.6 | 15.0 | 15.5 | |||
| Russian Federation | 0.2 | ||||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.2 | ||||||
| Madagascar | 25.1 | 30.0 | |||||||||||
| Armenia | 6.6 | 8.2 | 10.3 | ||||||||||
| Azerbaijan | 11.6 | 12.6 | 12.8 | 12.7 | 12.6 | 9.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||
| Mauritania | 52.1 | 30.2 | 42.4 | 41.5 | 40.3 | 37.5 | 28.2 | ||||||
| Chile | 0.5 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 5.3 | ||||||
| Colombia | 12.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 5.3 | 5.9 | |||||
| Kyrgyz Republic | 10.6 | 9.8 | 8.3 | 6.1 | 3.0 | 2.1 | |||||||
| Thailand | 7.8 | 7.4 | |||||||||||
| Timor-Leste | 19.4 | 14.8 | 12.0 | 11.4 | 9.6 | 10.3 | 12.6 | 10.2 | |||||
| Tonga | 5.6 | 12.0 | 3.7 | ||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 13.5 | 10.9 | 22.8 | 29.5 | |||||||||
| Vanuatu | 18.4 | 0.8 | |||||||||||
| Vietnam | 15.5 | ||||||||||||
| Iraq | 47.6 | ||||||||||||
| Israel | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||
| Kuwait | 2.8 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 5.5 | 5.1 | ||||||
| Lebanon | 16.9 | 18.3 | 23.8 | ||||||||||
| Nicaragua | 33.3 | 21.9 | 11.8 | ||||||||||
| Panama | 20.7 | 18.1 | 10.8 | 12.7 | 11.3 | ||||||||
| Paraguay | 11.3 | 12.3 | 13.9 | 9.2 | |||||||||
| Puerto Rico | 15.1 | 16.1 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 19.6 | ||||||||
| Serbia | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 2.1 | |||||
| Macedonia, FYR | 3.5 | ||||||||||||
| Malaysia | 46.4 | 7.4 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 9.4 | 9.9 | 9.2 | 10.2 | 12.2 | ||||
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 18.1 | ||||||||||||
| Mongolia | 21.9 | 4.9 | |||||||||||
| Nauru | 1.4 | 12.6 | 8.5 | ||||||||||
| Afghanistan | 34.5 | 34.0 | |||||||||||
| Angola | 17.2 | ||||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 32.2 | 27.9 | 29.4 | 24.9 | 20.6 | ||||||||
| Benin | 36.5 | 35.7 | |||||||||||
| Botswana | 20.7 | 9.8 | |||||||||||
| Cameroon | 39.5 | 37.4 | 36.2 | ||||||||||
| Central African Republic | 54.9 | 55.4 | |||||||||||
| Chad | 72.7 | 60.6 | 62.2 | ||||||||||
| Comoros | 27.5 | 19.2 | |||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 66.2 | 49.1 | 41.0 | 41.9 | 40.1 | 47.0 | 46.7 | ||||||
| Gambia, The | 22.2 | ||||||||||||
| Guinea | 79.8 | 55.1 | 52.5 | 51.5 | |||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 53.5 | ||||||||||||
| India | 14.8 | ||||||||||||
| Kenya | 12.7 | ||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 17.8 | 9.6 | 19.8 | 20.9 | 21.8 | 22.6 | 23.1 | ||||||
| Mozambique | 56.4 | 44.5 | 37.8 | 40.2 | 42.0 | 41.3 | 43.5 | 44.8 | |||||
| Namibia | 15.3 | 10.0 | |||||||||||
| Nepal | 11.5 | 2.6 | |||||||||||
| Niger | 88.6 | 82.0 | 78.4 | 78.7 | 70.4 | 68.3 | |||||||
| Pakistan | 54.8 | 52.0 | 50.4 | 47.6 | 46.9 | ||||||||
| Argentina | 1.3 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||
| Brazil | 3.4 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 5.7 | ||||||||
| Djibouti | 70.2 | ||||||||||||
| Grenada | 11.2 | 9.3 | 8.5 | 2.2 | |||||||||
| Guyana | 11.4 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 23.6 | 27.3 | 26.1 | 37.6 | |||||||||
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | 7.4 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 2.2 | |||||||
| Fiji | 6.2 | 2.2 | 4.0 | ||||||||||
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 3.0 | 3.0 | 7.6 | 24.7 | 7.8 | 9.4 | 11.6 | ||||||
| Suriname | 16.4 | 14.7 | 12.4 | 11.8 | 10.9 | 11.5 | |||||||
| Sweden | 0.4 | 0.5 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
| Tajikistan | 17.5 | 8.9 | 5.7 | 5.6 | |||||||||
| Ukraine | 4.1 | 5.7 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 0.4 | |||||||
| Uruguay | 22.5 | 14.4 | 5.4 | ||||||||||
| Venezuela, RB | 25.1 | 14.4 | 9.8 | 11.0 | 9.0 | 6.6 | 8.0 | 9.6 | |||||
| Japan | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Kazakhstan | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Korea, Dem. People’s Rep. | 4.7 | ||||||||||||
| Latvia | 10.4 | 9.5 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| Palau | 35.0 | ||||||||||||
| Samoa | 3.9 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 2.7 | |||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 49.0 | ||||||||||||
| Singapore | 0.6 | ||||||||||||
| Slovak Republic | 4.7 | ||||||||||||
| Montenegro | 6.7 | 7.7 | |||||||||||
| San Marino | 3.3 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| Rwanda | 8.9 | 3.8 | |||||||||||
| Turkmenistan | 8.2 | ||||||||||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 46.0 | 44.4 | |||||||||||
| Germany | 4.7 | ||||||||||||
| Czech Republic | 1.3 |