About 264 Million Children Worldwide Not In School In 2017 - UNESCO
Some 264 million school-age children and young people worldwide were not in education in 2015, the United Nations Education and Culture Agency UNESCO said on Tuesday. The agency, in a progress report on the UN’s development goals for education, said that after a decline in the early 2000s, out-of-school rates have started to stagnate. “Worldwide, there was a completion rate of 83 per cent for primary educat ion, falling to 45 per cent for upper secondary schooling,’’ the agency said. The agency meanwhile quoted household survey data from 128 countries for the 2010 to 2017 period.
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