Dataset
Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age)
worldbank.wdi.SE.SEC.UNER.LO.ZS
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About
Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.
Cite as: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) (SE.SEC.UNER.LO.ZS). Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), type: Bulk file (csv), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1960–now
- Places
- Economies, regions and income groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- not stated
- Units
- % of lower secondary school age
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.UNER.LO.ZS
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, or the World Bank's code for an aggregate |
| country_name | text | |
| aggregate | boolean | true for a region or income group, false for an economy |
| year | integer | |
| value | number | Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) |
| obs_status | text | the World Bank's status flag; empty for most observations |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| country | |
| year |