Situations of Out-of-School Children in Asia and the Pacific Roshan Bajracharya Assessment, Information, Monitoring and Statistics Unit UNESCO Bangkok UNESCO Institute for Statistics Asia Education Summit on Flexible Learning Strategies for Out-of-School Children Bangkok, Thailand February 2016

Contents Global and Regional Out of school Children -Numbers and Rates and its distribution School Exposure- Typology of Out of School Children Profiles of Out of School Children Systematic Approach in Addressing Out of school Children

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Stagnated Progress on Global Out-of-School Children 59 million out-of-school children of primary school age in the world 65 million out-of-school adolescents of lower secondary school age in the world Despite 25 years of efforts, there are 124 millions global children (between age 6 and 15) are out of school in 2013 Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, accessed in August 2015

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Number of Out-of-School Primary Children in Asia and the Pacific, per cent of the world’s out-of-school children of primary school age are from the Asia and the Pacific region. There are 1.2 million more out-of-school children since ■■ South and West Asia ■■ East Asia and the Pacific ■■ Central Asia Male Female Male Female Male 11.6 million 22.2 million 5.5 million 5.6 million 0.2 million 5.5 million 4.9 million 3.5 million 3.1 million 0.2 million 4.3 million 5.1 million 3.4 million 3 million 0.2 million million 16.1 million 17.3 million Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, accessed in August 2015

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Rates of Out-of-School Children and Adolescents in Asia and the Pacific, Progress can be seen in reducing primary age Out of school in the region Proportionally, more adolescents continued to remain out of school than primary school age children. 53 % of the global out of school adolescents from Asia-pacific region. Out-of-school children Out-of-school adolescents Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, accessed in August 2015

Primary School Exposure of Out-of-School Primary Children by Region, 2013 If situation remain unchanged, 46% of OOSC will never enter to school in South Asia, 39% of OOSC in East Asia and Pacific will enter late Different Strategies Needed to respond to different groups of the OOSC

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Note: Data for Bhutan are from Bhutan MICS Data for Pakistan are from Pakistan DHS Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre (household survey data), accessed in August 2015b Girls, rural children and those from poor households are more likely to be out of school. Profile of Out-of-School Children by Sex, Location and Wealth

Systematic Approach in Addressing OOSC WHO are the OOSC and where are they? WHY are the OOSC out of school? HOW can the OOSC be brought to school and stay there? UNESCO Institute for Statistics Intrinsic Link and Flow between Profiles, bottlenecks, Barriers and Policies UNICEF/UIS – Global Out of School Children Initiatives

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