Share of children of primary school age worldwide who are not enrolled in primary or secondary education, as estimated jointly by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring Report.
How to read it
Lower is better — readings above the norm count as worse, so they plot downward here.
Measured value over time. Its norm (0.0 % of primary-school-age children) is far off this scale, so the series stays worse than norm throughout — the deviation badge shows the gap.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
Funding that removes fees and builds schools lowers the out-of-school rate (a lower-is-better indicator), so it weakens the deprivation measure.
Conflict destroys or closes schools, displaces teachers and pupils and makes attendance unsafe, pushing the primary out-of-school rate up across conflict-affected populations.
Household income strain pushes children into work or withdrawal from school to cut costs, raising the primary out-of-school rate.
An adequate supply of trained teachers keeps schools staffed and functioning, lowering the primary out-of-school rate, especially in underserved areas.
Remote and online learning provision keeps children engaged during school closures and in remote areas, lowering the effective out-of-school rate.
Successful mediation lets displaced families return and schools reopen, lowering the primary out-of-school rate in post-conflict areas.
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Share of children of primary school age worldwide who are not enrolled in primary or secondary education, as estimated jointly by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring Report.