Before you play

What This Out-of-School Figure Means

This game compares the share of primary-school-age children who are out of school.

  • The figure is about non-attendance at primary-school age, not about whether children ever appear in a classroom later.
  • It captures a blunt exclusion threshold, not how much learning happens inside the schools that do exist.
  • Enrollment campaigns sound different when you count the children still outside the building.

School absence looks like a personal story until it repeats at national scale.