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The number of children out of school is an important indicator to track progress toward the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education. According to a joint report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF that was published this week, 115 million children of primary school age are not in school. The report with the title Children out of school: Measuring exclusion from primary education describes a new approach to measure the number of children out of school. Typically, the number of children out of school is based on the primary school net enrollment rate (NER), which is calculated as follows: Primary school NER = number of children of primary school age enrolled in primary school / number of children of primary school age The share of children out of school is assumed to be the difference between the theoretical NER at full enrollment and the current NER: Share of children out of school = 100% - primary school NER In many countries some children of prima...

Maps are a powerful tool to visualize statistics. This site uses maps for cross-country comparisons of data like national primary school enrollment rates, shown in the map below. Primary school net enrollment rate, 2002/2003 Data source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). 2005. Global Education Digest 2005 . Montreal: UIS. Here is a list of articles on this site that include maps with international education statistics: Pre-primary school enrollment Primary school enrollment Gender disparity in primary school Secondary school enrollment Gender disparity in secondary school School life expectancy Primary completion rate My recently updated guide to creating maps with Stata shows how the Stata statistical package and its tmap module can be used to create these and other maps. Friedrich Huebler, 5 February 2006 (edited 30 March 2006), Creative Commons License