Nigeria now has about 20 million out-of-school children, according to the latest global data on out-of-school children by the United Nation Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
UNESCO, which says a new and improved methodology was used to arrive at the latest figures, said there are “244 million children and youth between the ages of 6 and 18 worldwide (who) are still out of school.”
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According to the statistics by UNESCO , India, Nigeria and Pakistan have the highest figures for out-of-school children globally.
The figures in Nigeria have oscillated between 10.5 million and around 15 million for more than a decade, with the situation growing worse due to the degenerating security situation in the country.
UNESCO announced the figures in a statement issued on Thursday, a copy of f which was made available to journalists by Dafalia Dimitra, a media specialist, with the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM), which is developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO.
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