UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Through its UNESCO Institute of Statistics, data are updated annually on the status of children of primary and secondary age who are not in school. The following table was obtained from the UIS website and edited to only include countries that reported data for 2013 to 2018. An average was computed for the 5 year period of 2013-2017 since many countries had not provided data for 2018.

The UNESCO data allow comparison of the United States to other countries. These data are not directly comparable to the state, county and school district data provided by the American Community Survey because different data collection methods are used.

Data source: http://data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=3369