Out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age, male (number) by country

Name: Out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age, male (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Total number of male lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in lower secondary education.

Countries reporting

134

Highest

2.24 million number

Ethiopia

Lowest

11 number

Liechtenstein

Median

10,293 number

Years covered

1970–2019

Data points

3,016

What the numbers show

Out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age, male (number) is currently reported for 134 countries. The highest value is 2.24 million number in Ethiopia; the lowest is 11 number in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 10,293 number, and the mean is 106,703 number.

Over the past decade 50 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Cyprus (up 2,616.7%), and the largest decrease in Azerbaijan (down 99.5%).

Out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age, male: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Ethiopia	2.24 million number	2015	up 70.2%	rising
2	Pakistan	2.11 million number	2016	down 40.5%	falling
3	Indonesia	1.38 million number	2018	down 4.7%	falling
4	Niger	614,557 number	2017	up 31.1%	rising
5	Philippines	588,994 number	2018	up 131.1%	falling
6	Côte d'Ivoire	489,906 number	2019	up 6.1%	rising
7	Burkina Faso	480,021 number	2019	up 3.7%	rising
8	Myanmar	449,001 number	2018	down 44.6%	falling
9	Chad	432,551 number	2019	—	rising
10	Syrian Arab Republic	428,152 number	2013	up 121.7%	volatile
11	Mozambique	387,364 number	2015	up 64.6%	rising
12	Cameroon	366,247 number	2016	—	rising
13	Mali	341,102 number	2018	up 54.3%	rising
14	Mexico	301,584 number	2018	up 52.5%	falling
15	Guinea	236,018 number	2014	up 14.5%	rising
16	Yemen	220,217 number	2016	down 11.9%	rising
17	Iraq	188,800 number	2007	down 44.6%	volatile
18	Guatemala	182,004 number	2018	up 43.0%	falling
19	Malawi	175,071 number	2019	up 32.7%	rising
20	Türkiye	155,656 number	2018	up 992.0%	volatile
21	South Africa	153,347 number	2018	up 49.4%	falling
22	Honduras	139,693 number	2019	up 23.2%	rising
23	Burundi	138,044 number	2019	up 3.4%	falling
24	Germany	131,576 number	2018	up 119.9%	volatile
25	Jordan	129,178 number	2019	up 298.7%	volatile
26	Ghana	128,994 number	2019	down 19.6%	falling
27	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	125,791 number	2017	up 87.5%	falling
28	Malaysia	117,516 number	2017	up 45.0%	falling
29	Colombia	106,299 number	2018	down 25.9%	falling
30	Central African Republic	98,986 number	2012	—	rising
31	Egypt	86,180 number	2019	down 75.2%	falling
32	Lao People's Democratic Republic	82,084 number	2019	up 80.9%	rising
33	Morocco	69,992 number	2019	down 68.4%	volatile
34	Mauritania	61,034 number	2019	up 2.2%	rising
35	Cambodia	56,692 number	2015	down 84.9%	volatile
36	Iran, Islamic Republic of	54,411 number	2017	down 64.2%	falling
37	Togo	54,275 number	2017	down 20.5%	rising
38	Tunisia	48,526 number	1985	down 10.8%	falling
39	Eritrea	43,034 number	2018	up 78.3%	rising
40	Ukraine	40,663 number	2014	up 2.2%	rising
41	Romania	36,963 number	2018	up 80.3%	falling
42	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	31,150 number	2018	up 315.3%	volatile
43	Kenya	30,456 number	2006	down 76.2%	volatile
44	El Salvador	30,158 number	2018	up 95.3%	rising
45	Ecuador	29,650 number	2018	down 70.2%	falling
46	Peru	28,513 number	2016	down 37.9%	falling
47	Nicaragua	26,768 number	2010	down 64.0%	falling
48	Republic of Korea	19,732 number	2018	down 23.0%	volatile
49	Cuba	19,685 number	2019	up 23.5%	volatile
50	Djibouti	19,070 number	2015	down 22.3%	rising
51	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	18,950 number	2015	down 29.9%	volatile
52	Italy	17,623 number	2018	—	volatile
53	Bulgaria	17,127 number	2018	up 32.7%	rising
54	Dominican Republic	16,133 number	2019	down 2.1%	volatile
55	Puerto Rico	15,852 number	2018	up 44.1%	rising
56	Mongolia	14,532 number	2008	down 64.2%	volatile
57	Lesotho	14,370 number	2016	up 36.6%	falling
58	Australia	14,268 number	2018	up 193.7%	rising
59	France	14,056 number	2018	up 1.6%	volatile
60	Republic of Moldova	13,969 number	2019	down 3.1%	rising
61	Panama	13,859 number	2017	down 3.5%	falling
62	Jamaica	13,347 number	2019	up 122.0%	rising
63	Palestine, State of	12,742 number	2019	down 67.6%	falling
64	Tajikistan	12,356 number	2011	down 77.2%	volatile
65	Chile	11,890 number	2018	up 4.6%	falling
66	Armenia	11,136 number	2019	up 666.9%	rising
67	Paraguay	10,986 number	2012	down 61.6%	falling
68	Netherlands	9,600 number	2018	up 16.2%	volatile
69	Spain	8,245 number	2014	down 29.2%	volatile
70	Kuwait	7,878 number	2015	up 130.3%	volatile
71	Zimbabwe	7,154 number	2012	down 83.0%	volatile
72	Sweden	7,116 number	2012	up 445.3%	volatile
73	Oman	7,110 number	2012	down 38.8%	falling
74	Hungary	6,245 number	2018	down 11.8%	rising
75	Slovakia	6,215 number	2018	down 39.0%	falling
76	Namibia	6,052 number	2007	down 40.6%	falling
77	Timor-Leste	5,614 number	2019	down 49.2%	falling
78	Greece	5,425 number	2018	down 9.3%	volatile
79	Poland	5,284 number	2018	down 90.9%	falling
80	Ireland	5,106 number	1998	down 17.7%	volatile
81	Bhutan	5,090 number	2018	down 41.1%	falling
82	Kyrgyzstan	4,628 number	2019	down 78.4%	falling
83	Albania	4,419 number	2019	down 18.4%	falling
84	Suriname	3,933 number	2015	down 38.3%	rising
85	Botswana	3,256 number	2000	down 54.5%	falling
86	Hong Kong, China	3,190 number	2014	down 60.9%	volatile
87	Bahamas	2,903 number	2018	up 451.9%	volatile
88	Serbia	2,813 number	2019	up 24.1%	falling
89	Costa Rica	2,796 number	2019	down 71.6%	volatile
90	Croatia	2,576 number	2013	down 46.7%	falling
91	United Arab Emirates	2,462 number	2016	—	volatile
92	Czechia	2,255 number	2018	down 87.1%	volatile
93	Cape Verde	2,112 number	2018	up 40.4%	volatile
94	Bahrain	1,988 number	2019	down 15.8%	volatile
95	New Zealand	1,511 number	2018	down 54.4%	rising
96	Argentina	1,497 number	2016	down 97.4%	volatile
97	Belize	1,463 number	2019	down 20.1%	rising
98	Mauritius	1,444 number	2019	down 47.6%	volatile
99	Montenegro	1,344 number	2019	—	rising
100	Eswatini	1,037 number	2015	down 43.7%	volatile
100	Uzbekistan	1,037 number	2019	down 98.7%	falling
102	Sri Lanka	1,032 number	2018	down 97.8%	volatile
103	Georgia	1,002 number	2014	down 57.3%	volatile
104	Uruguay	988 number	2016	down 85.8%	falling
105	Austria	950 number	2018	down 76.4%	volatile
106	Sao Tome and Principe	900 number	2015	up 93.5%	flat
107	Switzerland	839 number	2018	down 52.7%	volatile
108	Belgium	801 number	2018	down 87.7%	volatile
109	Finland	569 number	2017	down 56.8%	volatile
110	Slovenia	548 number	2018	up 103.0%	volatile
111	Portugal	523 number	2017	—	volatile
112	Estonia	442 number	2018	down 61.8%	volatile
113	Barbados	387 number	2019	down 27.9%	volatile
114	Luxembourg	355 number	2018	down 7.6%	volatile
115	Norway	349 number	2017	down 75.4%	volatile
116	Latvia	345 number	2018	up 2,056.2%	rising
117	Tonga	338 number	2015	down 63.3%	volatile
118	Saint Lucia	331 number	2019	down 25.3%	volatile
119	Cyprus	326 number	2016	up 2,616.7%	volatile
120	Qatar	319 number	2019	down 54.0%	volatile
121	Vanuatu	280 number	2015	down 61.1%	volatile
122	Denmark	262 number	2017	down 85.1%	volatile
123	Cayman Islands	247 number	2018	up 99.2%	rising
124	Azerbaijan	217 number	2019	down 99.5%	volatile
125	Lithuania	210 number	2012	unchanged	volatile
126	Turks and Caicos Islands	203 number	2018	up 163.6%	rising
127	Macau, China	191 number	2019	down 87.4%	volatile
128	British Virgin Islands	190 number	2018	up 475.8%	volatile
129	Aruba	147 number	2009	up 75.0%	volatile
130	Malta	125 number	2014	—	volatile
131	Dominica	50 number	2015	down 73.3%	volatile
132	Iceland	32 number	2017	down 80.7%	volatile
133	Brunei Darussalam	21 number	2011	—	falling
134	Liechtenstein	11 number	2018	down 60.7%	volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 31.60 million number
Low & middle income 31.04 million number
IDA & IBRD total 31.03 million number
Middle income 22.38 million number
IDA total 18.56 million number
Lower middle income 17.08 million number
Early-demographic dividend 16.53 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 14.41 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 14.41 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 14.40 million number
IDA only 13.54 million number
Least developed countries 12.65 million number
IBRD only 12.49 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 11.88 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 11.65 million number
South Asia 9.33 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 9.33 million number
Low income 8.65 million number
Upper middle income 5.30 million number
IDA blend 5.00 million number
East Asia & Pacific 4.95 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 4.76 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 4.71 million number
Late-demographic dividend 2.65 million number
Arab World 1.91 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 1.21 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.17 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 1.16 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 1.09 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 1.07 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 1.06 million number
OECD members 1.02 million number
Europe & Central Asia 562,360 number
High income 561,646 number
Post-demographic dividend 529,110 number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 359,274 number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 315,137 number
European Union 263,977 number
Euro area 191,744 number
Small states 186,019 number

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Indicator: Out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 179 places, 3,016 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed: 04 September 2026

Total number of male lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in lower secondary education.