According to the latest estimates of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), released on Friday, 258 million children and adolescents had no access to school in 2018, one-sixth of the world’s population. this age group (6-17 years).

The UIS has also warned that for more than a decade, the school enrollment rate of children worldwide has made little progress and if urgent measures are not taken, 12 million young children will never go to school.

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