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Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age)

Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.

📅 2025📏 % of lower secondary school age12 entries
1🇩🇿Algeria77.6%% of lower secondary school age2🇧🇮Burundi37.1%48% of #13🇱🇦Laos36.3%47% of #1
The bar under each card is its value as a share of the leader’s.
1
🇩🇿Algeria
77.6%
2
🇧🇮Burundi
37.1%
3
🇱🇦Laos
36.3%
4
🇬🇲Gambia
14.3%
5
🇮🇳India
14.0%
6
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
3.7%
7
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
2.8%
8
🇳🇷Nauru
2.8%
9
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
2.5%
10
🇮🇩Indonesia
1.9%
11
🇹🇭Thailand
1.0%
12
🇳🇵Nepal
0.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Algeria ranks first with 77.6%, followed by Burundi (37.1%) and Laos (36.3%).

Algeria is 2.1 times higher than Burundi, the runner-up.

Across 12 countries and territories, values run from 77.6% (Algeria) to 0.7% (Nepal), with a median of 3.3%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Asia, 3 from Africa and 1 from Oceania.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age), 2025. Unit: % of lower secondary school age.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026