Out-of-school rates by country (UNESCO UIS)
Out-of-school rates (percent) by country/region and year, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/data/indicators). Each row is one (year, area, indicator): the share of children of primary school age (ROFST.1.CP), adolescents of lower secondary school age (ROFST.2.CP) and youth of upper secondary school age (ROFST.3.CP) not enrolled in school, both sexes. Method: keyless UIS Data API v1; rows with qualifier UIS_EST/NAT_EST are estimates. Units: percent. Caveats: survey-based and sparse for many countries (especially pre-2000); latest 1-2 years provisional and revised; regional aggregates have no iso3 code. Coverage: worldwide, 1970 to 2025, yearly granularity. Provenance: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, CC BY-SA 4.0 — please cite the UIS with the extraction date. Primary key: (indicator_id, area, year). Join keys: iso3 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly. Sample use: filter indicator_id='ROFST.1.CP' and iso3='AFG' to track primary out-of-school rates in Afghanistan.
- Rows
- 14,174
- Columns
- 7
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 23, 2026
- Theme
- education
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| year | integer | Reference year of the observation. |
| iso3 | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code; null for UIS regional aggregates. |
| area | string | Country name (resolved from the ISO code via hub.normalize) or the UIS regional aggregate label verbatim; with indicator_id and year forms the primary key. |
| indicator_id | string | UIS indicator code (e.g. LR.AG15T99, CR.1). |
| indicator_label | string | Human-readable UIS indicator label, from the SDG 4 monitoring framework. |
| value_pct | float | Indicator value in percent. (unit: percent) |
| qualifier | string | Data quality flag from UIS: null (reported observation), UIS_EST (UIS estimate) or NAT_EST (national estimate). Absent from the completion-rates dataset, where UIS publishes no estimate flags. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| year | iso3 | area | indicator_id | indicator_label | value_pct | qualifier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,974 | AFG | Afghanistan | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 72.486 | — |
| 1,993 | AFG | Afghanistan | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 68.772 | — |
| 1,999 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 3.067 | UIS_EST |
| 2,000 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 3.141 | — |
| 2,001 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 3.113 | — |
| 2,003 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 1.339 | — |
| 2,004 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 3.563 | — |
| 2,008 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 6.735 | — |
| 2,009 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 5.631 | — |
| 2,010 | ALB | Albania | ROFST.1.CP | Out-of-school rate, children of primary school age, both sexes (%) | 6.217 | — |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_out_of_school_rates" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_out_of_school_rates").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). (2026). Out-of-school rates by country (UNESCO UIS) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T072201Z-e7e0a797a9e4, sha256 e7e0a797a9e4]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_out_of_school_rates?snapshot=20260923T072201Z-e7e0a797a9e4
@misc{dz_unesco_uis_unesco_uis_out_of_school_rate_e7e0a797,
title = {{Out-of-school rates by country (UNESCO UIS)}},
author = {{UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_out_of_school_rates?snapshot=20260923T072201Z-e7e0a797a9e4}},
note = {Snapshot 20260923T072201Z-e7e0a797a9e4, sha256 e7e0a797a9e48bd931070a9c96b17737e90af314717ab3c2be2c849f6100265e; accessed 2026-09-23}
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