What is the main reason for the increase in out-of-school children?
This increase is largely due to the mass exclusion of girls and young women from education in Afghanistan but is also a result of the continuing stagnation in education progress across the world.
A recent survey taken in April this year by UNICEF found that there are 7.8 million children out-of-school in Afghanistan. Roughly half of children of primary school age are enrolled and only one-fifth of those of secondary school age.
.Where are most of the out-of-school children? 122
Globally, 16 % of children and youth (covering primary to upper secondary) are not attending school. At primary level, 1 out of 10 children worldwide are not in school.
122 million, or 48% of the out-of-school population are girls and young women.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for close to 30 % of all out-of-school children globally. 1 out of 5 African children are not attending school (19.7%). Only half of children attend upper secondary school.
