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A new report released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) shows that the number of out-of-school children and adolescents has increased by 6 million since 2021.
The report says that despite the organization’s efforts over the past decades to ensure universal access to quality education, data shows that the number of out-of-school children and adolescents is currently rising and countries must urgently remobilize if they do not want to sell out the future of millions of children.
The number of out-of-school children and adolescents has increased by 6 million since 2021, bringing the total to 250 million, according to new data released today by UNESCO.
The report attributes the increase to the continued stagnation of educational progress around the world.
UNESCO’s 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report concludes that since 2015, the proportion of children completing primary education has increased by less than 3 percentage points, to 87%, and the proportion of young people completing secondary education has increased by less than 5 percentage points, to 58%.
The report notes that globally, youth literacy rates increased by less than one percentage point and adult education participation (both formal and non-formal) fell by 10%, with the decline largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
UNESCO Director-General Adore Azoulay called on countries to take swift action to address the phenomenon, noting that the results undermine the United Nations’ goals in education.
Azoulay explained that to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4, a new child must be enrolled in school every two seconds between now and 2030. To meet these targets, countries need to enroll 1.4 million people in early childhood education each year by 2030 and nearly triple primary school completion rates.
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