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Distribution of Out of School Children
Geographic Distribution
By far, the regions with the largest contribution to the UNESCO global estimate of out of school children are Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, with over 70% of the global total. South Asia, with its relatively small geographic territory, accounts for half as many children out of school as Sub-Saharan Africa. These two regions are characterized by both high overall population levels and high rates of non-participation, and are home to the highest single contributors to the global out of school estimates: Nigeria, with its 10 million, and India, with 2.3 million according to UIS (or 21 million, according to household survey data). Only three out of 14 countries with one million or more children out of school are located outside of these two regions. Although countries around the globe, including those in North America and Europe, may at times struggle to provide all of their citizens with stable access to schooling, the geographic breakdown of the global estimate indicates that children’s exclusion from schooling is a problem that disproportionately impacts the global South. As we observe data collected from other sources, this geographic pattern holds regardless of the source of the data.
Income Distribution
[1]World Bank country and lending groups
[2]UIS no longer publishes OOSC rates for Afghanistan; the figures in the Global Initiative e-Atlas are from 1993.
[3] The DHS survey indicates that the non-attendance rate in India was 17% in 2006, even as UIS showed an out of school rate of 5% in the same year, and 2% two years later.
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