Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania
SDG: Oceania: Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes was 31.4% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania, 2000–2025
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
SDG: Oceania recorded 31.4% for out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in 2025. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 4.7% on the previous year and up 49.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania peaked at 31.4% in 2025 and was at its lowest, 18.4%, in 2017.
That places SDG: Oceania 20th out of 39 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 21.9% | — |
| 2001 | 21.2% | -3.2% |
| 2002 | 20.5% | -3.3% |
| 2003 | 19.9% | -2.9% |
| 2004 | 19.4% | -2.5% |
| 2005 | 19.4% | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 19.4% | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 19.8% | +2.1% |
| 2008 | 20.4% | +3.0% |
| 2009 | 20.6% | +1.0% |
| 2010 | 20.6% | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 20.4% | -1.0% |
| 2012 | 20.2% | -1.0% |
| 2013 | 20.4% | +1.0% |
| 2014 | 20.8% | +2.0% |
| 2015 | 21.0% | +1.0% |
| 2016 | 18.5% | -11.9% |
| 2017 | 18.4% | -0.5% |
| 2018 | 18.5% | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 18.7% | +1.1% |
| 2020 | 19.2% | +2.7% |
| 2021 | 25.4% | +32.3% |
| 2022 | 27.1% | +6.7% |
| 2023 | 28.6% | +5.5% |
| 2024 | 30.0% | +4.9% |
| 2025 | 31.4% | +4.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +32.3% | 19.2% | 25.4% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 20.2% | 19.4% | 21.9% | 10 |
| 2010s | 19.8% | 18.4% | 21.0% | 10 |
| 2020s | 26.9% | 19.2% | 31.4% | 6 |
Countries ranked near SDG: Oceania
More education data for SDG: Oceania
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, female (number) 0.046 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 1.93 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 0.2876 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 2.14 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 0.3171 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.20 million (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number) 0.485 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, male (number), gaps 875,062 (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, female (number), gaps filled 143,229 (2017)
- Enrolment in tertiary education, all programmes, both sexes (number) 2.05 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania?
- Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes in SDG: Oceania was 31.4% in 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes recorded in SDG: Oceania?
- The highest recorded value was 31.4% in 2025.
- What is the lowest out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes recorded in SDG: Oceania?
- The lowest recorded value was 18.4% in 2017.
- How does SDG: Oceania rank for out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes?
- SDG: Oceania ranks 20th out of 39 groups with data for 2025.
- Is out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes rising or falling in SDG: Oceania?
- Over the last ten years it is up 49.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this SDG: Oceania data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Out-of-school rate for youth of upper secondary school age, both sexes (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 26 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).
About this data
February 2026 Data Release