By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
As many children around the world head back to classes for a new school year, UNESCO shares the latest data on the number of out of school children and youth, offering a fresh look at the available evidence. The new estimates by the GEM Report and the UIS show that 244 million children and youth between the ages of 6 and 18 worldwide were still missing out on school in 2021.
The estimates are the result of a new and improved way of measuring, which combines administrative data with information coming from surveys and censuses. By using multiple data sources, gaps are filled, data trends are smoothed, and more consistent time series can be extracted. This way of measuring has been applied before to estimate flagship health indicators, such as maternal and infant mortality rates. But it is only recently that such approaches have begun being applied to education, marking a significant improvement to the robustness of the estimates.
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