| # | Flag | Country | Children out of school, primaryChildren out of school, primary | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 14,051,869 | 1997 | |
| 2 | Nigeria | 8,628,878 | 2010 | |
| 3 | Pakistan | 5,324,181 | 2017 | |
| 4 | Democratic Republic Of Congo | 4,761,036 | 1999 | |
| 5 | India | 2,897,747 | 2013 | |
| 6 | Sudan | 2,397,876 | 2017 | |
| 7 | Ethiopia | 2,221,454 | 2015 | |
| 8 | Tanzania | 2,096,986 | 2017 | |
| 9 | Indonesia | 2,061,360 | 2017 | |
| 10 | Afghanistan | 1,844,391 | 1993 | |
| 11 | South Sudan | 1,297,786 | 2015 | |
| 12 | Niger | 1,223,142 | 2017 | |
| 13 | Kenya | 1,214,199 | 2012 | |
| 14 | Mali | 1,037,948 | 2017 | |
| 15 | United States | 1,013,950 | 2016 | |
| 16 | Angola | 955,329 | 2011 | |
| 17 | Bangladesh | 753,254 | 2017 | |
| 18 | Burkina Faso | 746,623 | 2017 | |
| 19 | Mozambique | 728,531 | 2017 | |
| 20 | Uganda | 714,319 | 2013 | |
| 21 | Yemen | 703,884 | 2016 | |
| 22 | Ghana | 682,596 | 2018 | |
| 23 | Syria | 667,202 | 2013 | |
| 24 | Chad | 640,027 | 2016 | |
| 25 | Senegal | 628,099 | 2017 | |
| 26 | South Africa | 620,845 | 2015 | |
| 27 | Philippines | 586,284 | 2016 | |
| 28 | Haiti | 563,557 | 1997 | |
| 29 | Madagascar | 529,288 | 2003 | |
| 30 | Venezuela | 485,756 | 2017 | |
| 31 | Liberia | 468,085 | 2016 | |
| 32 | Zambia | 460,181 | 2017 | |
| 33 | Eritrea | 437,315 | 2017 | |
| 34 | Ivory Coast | 419,597 | 2017 | |
| 35 | Guinea | 406,478 | 2016 | |
| 36 | Zimbabwe | 398,579 | 2013 | |
| 37 | Brazil | 395,798 | 2016 | |
| 38 | Iraq | 345,387 | 2007 | |
| 39 | Turkey | 294,314 | 2016 | |
| 40 | Guatemala | 273,702 | 2017 | |
| 41 | Papua New Guinea | 254,607 | 2016 | |
| 42 | Colombia | 243,808 | 2017 | |
| 43 | Central African Republic | 232,452 | 2012 | |
| 44 | Honduras | 192,262 | 2017 | |
| 45 | Cameroon | 185,386 | 2017 | |
| 46 | Cambodia | 184,824 | 2017 | |
| 47 | Egypt | 163,886 | 2017 | |
| 48 | Nepal | 159,211 | 2017 | |
| 49 | Mauritania | 153,801 | 2017 | |
| 50 | Russia | 146,591 | 2016 | |
| 51 | El Salvador | 131,351 | 2017 | |
| 52 | Vietnam | 127,071 | 2013 | |
| 53 | Ukraine | 122,010 | 2014 | |
| 54 | Mexico | 120,851 | 2017 | |
| 55 | Japan | 118,248 | 2016 | |
| 56 | Morocco | 117,890 | 2017 | |
| 57 | Rwanda | 115,483 | 2017 | |
| 58 | Myanmar | 109,055 | 2017 | |
| 59 | Thailand | 107,315 | 2009 | |
| 60 | Romania | 104,542 | 2016 | |
| 61 | Bolivia | 104,077 | 2017 | |
| 62 | Togo | 103,487 | 2017 | |
| 63 | Iran | 101,141 | 2017 | |
| 64 | Poland | 99,207 | 2016 | |
| 65 | South Korea | 95,530 | 2016 | |
| 66 | Republic of the Congo | 90,113 | 2012 | |
| 67 | Paraguay | 85,429 | 2012 | |
| 68 | Equatorial Guinea | 84,627 | 2015 | |
| 69 | Malawi | 81,563 | 2009 | |
| 70 | Saudi Arabia | 80,255 | 2014 | |
| 71 | Chile | 77,413 | 2017 | |
| 72 | Gambia | 72,096 | 2018 | |
| 73 | Australia | 70,362 | 2017 | |
| 74 | Puerto Rico | 68,044 | 2016 | |
| 75 | Guinea-Bissau | 66,306 | 2010 | |
| 76 | Dominican Republic | 65,811 | 2017 | |
| 77 | Lesotho | 64,711 | 2017 | |
| 78 | Lebanon | 61,661 | 2017 | |
| 79 | Swaziland | 54,963 | 2016 | |
| 80 | Panama | 53,667 | 2015 | |
| 81 | Benin | 52,737 | 2017 | |
| 82 | North Korea | 52,567 | 2009 | |
| 83 | Laos | 50,332 | 2017 | |
| 84 | Greece | 48,705 | 2016 | |
| 85 | Burundi | 45,208 | 2017 | |
| 86 | Spain | 42,849 | 2016 | |
| 87 | East Timor | 42,619 | 2017 | |
| 88 | Malaysia | 41,794 | 2017 | |
| 89 | Djibouti | 41,062 | 2018 | |
| 90 | Ecuador | 39,278 | 2016 | |
| 91 | Italy | 39,161 | 2016 | |
| 92 | France | 37,422 | 2016 | |
| 93 | Azerbaijan | 34,961 | 2017 | |
| 94 | Botswana | 33,883 | 2014 | |
| 95 | Uzbekistan | 33,682 | 2017 | |
| 96 | Jordan | 32,195 | 2004 | |
| 97 | Solomon Islands | 28,887 | 2017 | |
| 98 | Argentina | 28,723 | 2016 | |
| 99 | Jamaica | 26,496 | 2004 | |
| 100 | Israel | 23,643 | 2017 | |
| 101 | Portugal | 21,663 | 2016 | |
| 102 | Algeria | 21,362 | 2017 | |
| 103 | Cuba | 21,346 | 2017 | |
| 104 | Peru | 19,903 | 2018 | |
| 105 | Austria | 19,512 | 1989 | |
| 106 | Comoros | 19,325 | 2017 | |
| 107 | Kuwait | 19,258 | 2017 | |
| 108 | Bulgaria | 18,895 | 2016 | |
| 109 | Bhutan | 18,367 | 2017 | |
| 110 | Belarus | 16,598 | 2017 | |
| 111 | Moldova | 15,706 | 2017 | |
| 112 | Gabon | 15,591 | 1997 | |
| 113 | Kazakhstan | 14,294 | 2018 | |
| 114 | Costa Rica | 13,887 | 2016 | |
| 115 | Libya | 12,385 | 1983 | |
| 116 | Armenia | 12,282 | 2017 | |
| 117 | Hungary | 12,152 | 2016 | |
| 118 | Sri Lanka | 12,056 | 2017 | |
| 119 | Nicaragua | 11,914 | 2010 | |
| 120 | United Arab Emirates | 11,902 | 2016 | |
| 121 | Tajikistan | 11,435 | 2017 | |
| 122 | United Kingdom | 11,014 | 2016 | |
| 123 | Belgium | 10,325 | 2016 | |
| 124 | Sierra Leone | 10,119 | 2016 | |
| 125 | Republic of Macedonia | 9,608 | 2015 | |
| 126 | Cape Verde | 9,073 | 2017 | |
| 127 | Namibia | 8,724 | 2017 | |
| 128 | Kyrgyzstan | 6,773 | 2017 | |
| 129 | Hong Kong | 6,462 | 2017 | |
| 130 | Germany | 6,133 | 2016 | |
| 131 | Suriname | 5,810 | 2017 | |
| 132 | Estonia | 5,385 | 2016 | |
| 133 | Vanuatu | 5,103 | 2015 | |
| 134 | Uruguay | 4,858 | 2016 | |
| 135 | Albania | 4,665 | 2017 | |
| 136 | Denmark | 4,537 | 2016 | |
| 137 | Oman | 4,477 | 2017 | |
| 138 | Guyana | 4,303 | 2012 | |
| 139 | Croatia | 4,007 | 2016 | |
| 140 | Serbia | 3,860 | 2017 | |
| 141 | Netherlands | 3,825 | 1997 | |
| 142 | The Bahamas | 3,740 | 2016 | |
| 143 | Tunisia | 3,675 | 2013 | |
| 144 | Latvia | 3,535 | 2017 | |
| 145 | Mauritius | 3,496 | 2017 | |
| 146 | Mongolia | 3,169 | 2017 | |
| 147 | New Zealand | 3,146 | 2017 | |
| 148 | Finland | 3,139 | 2016 | |
| 149 | Slovenia | 2,691 | 2016 | |
| 150 | Sweden | 2,601 | 2016 | |
| 151 | Federated States of Micronesia | 2,303 | 2015 | |
| 152 | Georgia | 2,164 | 2017 | |
| 153 | Barbados | 2,126 | 2017 | |
| 154 | Antigua and Barbuda | 1,989 | 2017 | |
| 155 | Marshall Islands | 1,909 | 2016 | |
| 156 | Qatar | 1,873 | 2017 | |
| 157 | Trinidad and Tobago | 1,567 | 2010 | |
| 158 | Montenegro | 1,473 | 2017 | |
| 159 | Brunei | 1,355 | 2017 | |
| 160 | Bahrain | 1,279 | 2017 | |
| 161 | Saint Lucia | 1,198 | 2007 | |
| 162 | Cyprus | 1,176 | 2015 | |
| 163 | Samoa | 1,154 | 2017 | |
| 164 | Switzerland | 1,146 | 2016 | |
| 165 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,013 | 2017 | |
| 166 | Canada | 863 | 2016 | |
| 167 | Bermuda | 797 | 2012 | |
| 168 | Malta | 585 | 2016 | |
| 169 | Kiribati | 577 | 2017 | |
| 170 | Norway | 542 | 2017 | |
| 171 | Luxembourg | 436 | 2016 | |
| 172 | Grenada | 411 | 2016 | |
| 173 | Seychelles | 378 | 2005 | |
| 174 | Belize | 330 | 2017 | |
| 175 | Lithuania | 273 | 2016 | |
| 176 | Nauru | 263 | 2016 | |
| 177 | Macao | 261 | 2017 | |
| 178 | Maldives | 219 | 2017 | |
| 179 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 209 | 2017 | |
| 180 | Republic of Ireland | 163 | 2016 | |
| 181 | French Polynesia | 161 | 1996 | |
| 182 | Iceland | 151 | 2016 | |
| 183 | Singapore | 138 | 2016 | |
| 184 | Dominica | 117 | 2016 | |
| 185 | San Marino | 117 | 2012 | |
| 186 | Fiji | 71 | 2016 | |
| 187 | Aruba | 59 | 2014 | |
| 188 | Tuvalu | 31 | 2016 | |
| 189 | Liechtenstein | 13 | 2016 | |
| 190 | Tonga | 10 | 2015 | |
| 191 | Palau | 8 | 2014 |