New Methodology Shows that 258 Million Children, Adolescents and Youth Are Out of School

This fact sheet presents the latest UIS data on education available as of September 2019.

Three years after the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and the promise to provide universal primary and secondary education, there has been no progress in reducing the global number of out-of-school children, adolescents and youth. This fact sheet by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) highlights the most recent statistics on trends at the global and regional levels, based on a revised calculation method that provides more precise estimates of the out-of-school population.