Drop-out rate (%), primary, male - Primary - Education Statistics

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Drop outs in primary school are the students or pupils who leave school definitively in a given school year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school.
Drop-out rate (%), primary, male - Primary - Education Statistics (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value
1Rwanda (2003)70.27
2Chad (2005)66.54
3Equatorial Guinea (2001)66.2
4Uganda (2006)66.09
5Malawi (2006)63.3
6Lesotho (2006)63.19
7Ethiopia (2007)61.27
8Madagascar (2007)58.18
9Nicaragua (2007)55.32
10Mozambique (2007)54.45
11Togo (2006)50.77
12Central African Republic (2008)49.93
13Burundi (2007)49.19
14Cambodia (2007)48.07
15Bangladesh (2005)47.84
16Gabon (2002)46.29
17Ghana (2002)44.66
18Cameroon (2007)42.67
19Senegal (2007)42.63
20Guinea (2007)40.29
21Nepal (2007)40.29
22Yemen (2004)38.81
23Zimbabwe (2002)38.38
24Guyana (2001)37.97
25Suriname (2006)36.53
26Benin (2003)36.22
27Dominican Republic (2007)35.6
28Guatemala (2007)34.62
29Laos (2007)34.03
30India (2005)33.76
31St. Kitts and Nevis (2007)32.43
32Pakistan (2004)32.16
33Gambia (2007)31.84
34Philippines (2006)31.37
35Comoros (2004)30.66
36Niger (2008)30.64
37Burma (2003)30.63
38Republic of the Congo (2007)29.8
39Burkina Faso (2008)29.17
40Swaziland (2006)28.99
41Namibia (2005)27.05
42Vanuatu (2006)26.36
43Honduras (2007)26.19
44El Salvador (2007)26.15
45Kenya (2003)25.99
46Nigeria (2003)25.47
47South Africa (2003)25.03
48Kiribati (2003)25
49Brazil (2000)24.15
50Morocco (2007)23.39
51Sao Tome and Principe (2007)23.29
52Eritrea (2007)22.57
53Indonesia (2007)22.5
54Paraguay (2006)22.08
55Netherlands Antilles (1999)21.83
56Venezuela (2007)21.78
57Iraq (2004)21.66
58Liechtenstein (2007)20.33
59Trinidad and Tobago (2004)19.76
60Tanzania (2006)19.23
61Bolivia (2006)19.2
62Mali (2008)18.9
63Mauritania (2008)18.88
64Ecuador (2007)18.43
65Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007)18.23
66Peru (2007)17.71
67Zambia (2007)17.51
68Seychelles (2003)17.32
69Ivory Coast (2006)16.84
70Jamaica (2001)16.13
71Luxembourg (2007)16.08
72Colombia (2006)15.42
73Panama (2007)15.27
74Botswana (2005)15.22
75Bhutan (2008)15.04
76Aruba (2007)15.04
77Cape Verde (2007)14.19
78Belgium (2007)13.95
79Vietnam (2002)12.84
80Sudan (2007)12.37
81Iran (2002)11.93
82Albania (2003)11.27
83United States (2001)10.51
84Bahamas (2007)10.31
85Tonga (2005)10.06
86Belize (2007)9.63
87Mexico (2007)9.55
88Western Samoa (1999)9.12
89Dominica (2007)8.84
90Algeria (2007)8.68
91Lebanon (2008)8.39
92Uruguay (2006)8.05
93Denmark (2004)7.95
94Malaysia (2006)7.94
95Costa Rica (2007)7.35
96Argentina (2006)7.27
97Romania (2007)6.94
98Bulgaria (2007)6.74
99Tunisia (2007)6.35
100Qatar (2007)6.31
101Georgia (2007)6.13
102Egypt (2005)6.02
103Turkey (2007)6
104Mongolia (2007)5.66
105Moldova (2007)5.62
106Kuwait (2005)5.35
107Bermuda (2002)4.84
108St. Lucia (2004)4.84
109Germany (2007)4.81
110Cuba (2008)4.42
111Jordan (2004)4.37
112Barbados (2003)4.27
113Mauritius (2008)4.01
114Ukraine (2007)3.78
115Syria (2007)3.64
116Austria (2007)3.3
117Tajikistan (2004)3.25
118Slovakia (2007)3.17
119Cyprus (2007)3
120Fiji (2003)3
121Latvia (2007)2.86
122Uzbekistan (2007)2.5
123Azerbaijan (2006)2.36
124Serbia (2007)2.18
125Sri Lanka (2007)2.05
126Armenia (2006)1.99
127Lithuania (2007)1.93
128North Korea (2007)1.83
129South Korea (2007)1.83
130Iceland (2005)1.77
131Macedonia (2006)1.76
132United Arab Emirates (2005)1.76
133Kyrgyzstan (2007)1.69
134France (1999)1.58
135Brunei Darussalam (2007)1.56
136Greece (2006)1.55
137Slovenia (2002)1.55
138Chile (2003)1.54
139Malta (2002)1.43
140Hong Kong (2004)1.36
141Kazakhstan (2008)1.26
142Estonia (2007)1.23
143Netherlands (2002)1.17
144Hungary (2007)1.16
145West Bank and Gaza (2006)1.15
146Czech Republic (2007)1.11
147Oman (2007)0.99
148Macau (2008)0.87
149Italy (2006)0.86
150Belarus (2006)0.56
151Finland (2007)0.39
152Croatia (2006)0.37
153Norway (2007)0.32
154Israel (2003)0.21
155China (2007)0.18
156Sweden (2007)0.15
157Bahrain (2003)0.04
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