Education Data Release: One in Every Five Children, Adolescents and Youth is Out of School - February 2018

New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that, despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has come to a standstill. According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), about 263 million children, adolescents and youth worldwide (or one in every five) are out school – a figure that has barely changed over the past five years.

http://uis.unesco.org/en/news/education-data-release-one-every-five-children-adolescents-and-youth-out-school