Year-over-year change: -0.7 pp, trend down
5-year change: -7.8 pp, trend down
Nauru
Out of school, pre-primary: 5.8%
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Rankings at a glance
Highest 10 · Percentage of children one year before primary not attending school (2025)
Among the 10 countries with 2025 data, Niue has the highest percentage of children one year before primary not attending school at 75% in 2025, followed by Tokelau (53.33%) and the Gambia (37.31%). Laos (34.06%) and Kazakhstan (25.91%) close out the top 5. Next up, Kyrgyzstan (25.09%) and Algeria (24.06%). Thailand (9.19%), Indonesia (7.06%), and Nauru (5.84%) round out the top ten. The gap across the top ten is wide: Niue has 13× the value of Nauru (5.84%). Five of the top ten are in Asia, with three from South-Eastern Asia. Among these countries, Niue saw the largest year-over-year change at +58.2 pp.
Rank changes
How percentage of children one year before primary not attending school changed between 2020 and 2025
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Historical trends
Key terms
- Literacy rate
- — Percentage of population who can read and write a short, simple statement about everyday life.
- Gross enrollment ratio
- — Total enrollment in a level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the eligible school-age population.
- Completion rate
- — Percentage of a cohort of children who complete a given level of education.
- Out-of-school rate
- — Percentage of children of official school age who are not enrolled in school.
- Pupil-teacher ratio
- — Enrolled pupils per TRAINED teacher at a given level of education. It measures how thinly trained teachers are spread, not average class size: the ratio rises when fewer teachers meet the training requirement, whatever happens to the number of pupils in a room.
- Educational attainment
- — Highest level of education completed by the population aged 25 and over.
Frequently asked questions
- Which country has the lowest percentage of children one year before primary not attending school?
- Nauru has the lowest percentage of children one year before primary not attending school among the 10 countries with 2025 data at 5.8% as of 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Which country has the highest percentage of children one year before primary not attending school?
- Niue has the highest percentage of children one year before primary not attending school among the 10 countries with 2025 data at 75.0% as of 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.