The table below lists the 19 countries of the world in which the difference between boys not in primary school and girls not in primary school is 10 percentage points or more.
In the main league table the statistics on school attendance apply to the 1990s and are derived from household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices.
Data for six nations (Central African Republic, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, and Somalia) are from the second half of the 1980s.
| % out of school | % point difference | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | ||
| Yemen | 28 | 65 | 37 |
| Benin | 29 | 65 | 36 |
| Afghanistan | 58 | 86 | 28 |
| Chad | 45 | 73 | 28 |
| Nepal | 19 | 47 | 28 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 42 | 68 | 26 |
| Central African Rep. | 29 | 54 | 25 |
| Togo | 20 | 42 | 22 |
| Gambia | 36 | 54 | 18 |
| Pakistan | 37 | 55 | 18 |
| Morocco | 39 | 55 | 16 |
| India | 25 | 39 | 14 |
| Lao Rep. | 25 | 39 | 14 |
| Egypt | 5 | 18 | 13 |
| Zaire | 40 | 53 | 13 |
| Papua New Guinea | 21 | 33 | 12 |
| Mozambique | 54 | 65 | 11 |
| Algeria | 1 | 11 | 10 |
| Bhutan | 54 | 64 | 10 |
