São Tomé and Principe: Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age)

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How it compares

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What this measures

Adolescents out of school are the percentage of lower secondary school age adolescents who are not enrolled in school.

Limitations: The administrative data used in the calculation of the rate of out-of-school children are based on enrolment at a specific date which can bias the results by either counting enrolled children who never attend school or by omitting those who enroll after the reference date for reporting enrolment data. Furthermore, children who drop out of school after the reference date are not counted as out of school. Discrepancies between enrolment and population data from different sources can also result in over- or underestimates of the rate.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 10 values

Adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 9.17% (2022)
• Burkina Faso — 59.31% (2024)
• Burundi — 37.09% (2025)
• Cabo Verde — 66.27% (2022)
• Cameroon — 47.1% (2023)
• Chad — 58.62% (2024)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 30.81% (2024)
• Eritrea — 37.09% (2022)
• Eswatini — 7.27% (2022)

More education data for São Tomé and Principe

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 37,172 (2017)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 110.38% (2017)
• School enrollment, primary, private (% of total primary) — 1.38% (2017)
• School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 0.97 (2017)
• Primary education, pupils (% female)

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Questions people ask

What is São Tomé and Principe's adolescents out of school (% of lower secondary school age)?

8.7% in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2003?

It is down 25.45 percentage points from 34.15% in 2003. The highest value was 34.15% in 2003 and the lowest 8.7% in 2015.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. 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..

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.UNER.LO.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. 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. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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