An unprecedented number of children, youth and adults are not attending schools or universities because of COVID-19. Governments in 100 countries have announced or implemented the closure of educational institutions in an attempt to slow the spread of the disease (link is external). UNESCO is providing immediate support to countries as they work to minimize the educational disruption and facilitate the continuity of learning, especially for the most vulnerable.
According to UNESCO monitoring, 85 countries have closed schools nationwide, impacting over 776.7 million children and youth. A further 15 countries have implemented localized school closures and, should these closures become nationwide, hundreds of millions of additional learners will experience education disruption.
Country-wide school closures
Total number of countries: 85
Total number of learners affected: 776,741,846
|
Number of learners enrolled from pre-primary to upper- secondary education |
Number of learners enrolled in tertiary education programmes |
|
| Afghanistan |
9,608,795 |
370,610 |
| Albania |
520,759 |
131,833 |
| Algeria |
9,492,542 |
743,640 |
| Armenia | 437,612 | 102,891 |
| Austria |
1,278,170 |
430,370 |
|
Azerbaijan |
1,783,390 |
200,609 |
|
Bahrain |
247,489 |
44,940 |
| Bangladesh | 36,786,304 | 3,150,539 |
| Belgium |
2,457,738 |
526,720 |
| Bolivia |
2,612,837 |
-- |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
428,099 |
95,142 |
| Bulgaria | 974,469 | 249,937 |
| Burkina Faso | 4,568,998 | 117,725 |
| Chile | 3,652,100 | 1,238,992 |
|
China* (including Hong Kong and Macao) |
233,169,621 |
42,266,464 |
| Colombia | 9,124,862 | 2,408,041 |
| Croatia | 621,991 | 165,197 |
| Cyprus |
135,354 |
45,263 |
| Czechia |
1,715,890 |
352,873 |
|
Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
4,229,170 |
526,400 |
| Denmark |
1,185,564 |
312,379 |
| Ecuador |
4,462,460 |
320,765 |
| Egypt | 23,157,420 | 2,914,473 |
| El Salvador |
1,414,326 |
190,519 |
| Equatorial Guinea* | 160,019 | -- |
| Estonia |
224,987 |
47,794 |
| Ethiopia | 23,929,322 | 757,175 |
| France |
12,929,509 |
2,532,831 |
| Gabon | 468,362 | 10,076 |
| Georgia |
732,451 |
151,226 |
| Ghana | 9,253,063 | 443,693 |
| Greece |
1,469,505 |
735,027 |
| Honduras* |
2,018,314 |
266,908 |
| Hungary | 1,504,740 | 287,018 |
|
Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
14,561,998 |
4,073,827 |
| Iraq |
7,010,788 |
424,908 |
| Ireland |
1,064,091 |
255,031 |
| Israel |
2,271,426 |
210,041 |
|
Italy |
9,039,741 |
1,837,051 |
| Jamaica |
552,619 |
74,537 |
|
Japan* |
16,496,928 |
- |
| Jordan | 2,051,840 | 320,896 |
| Kenya |
13,751,830 |
562,521 |
|
Kuwait |
632,988 |
116,336 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1,443,925 | 217,693 |
| Latvia |
313,868 |
82,914 |
|
Lebanon |
1,132,178 |
231,215 |
| Libya | 1,510,198 | 375,028 |
| Lithuania |
460,257 |
125,863 |
| Luxembourg |
102,839 |
7,058 |
| Mauritania | 928,218 | 19,371 |
|
Mongolia |
870,962 |
155,248 |
| Montenegro | 111,863 | 23,826 |
| Morocco |
7,886,899 |
1,056,257 |
| Namibia | 689,520 | 56,046 |
| North Macedonia |
298,135 |
61,488 |
| Norway |
1,073,521 |
284,042 |
| Pakistan | 44,925,306 | 1,878,101 |
| Panama |
837,246 |
161,102 |
| Paraguay |
1,519,678 |
225,211 |
| Peru |
8,015,606 |
1,895,907 |
| Poland |
6,003,285 |
1,550,203 |
| Portugal |
2,028,254 |
346,963 |
| Qatar |
309,856 |
33,668 |
| Republic of Korea* |
7,044,963 |
3,136,395 |
| Republic of Moldova |
498,881 |
87,277 |
| Romania* |
2,951,879 |
-- |
| Rwanda | 3,388,696 | 75,713 |
| Saudi Arabia |
6,789,773 |
1,620,491 |
| Senegal |
3,475,647 |
184,879 |
| Serbia | 964,796 | 256,172 |
| Slovenia |
332,677 |
79,547 |
| South Africa | 13,496,529 | 1,116,017 |
| Spain |
7,696,101 |
2,010,183 |
| Sri Lanka | 4,917,578 | 300,794 |
| Sudan | 8,171,079 | 653,088 |
| Switzerland | 1,289,219 | 300,618 |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
3,491,113 |
697,415 |
| Tunisia | 2,479,163 | 272,261 |
| Turkey | 17,702,938 | 7,198,987 |
| Ukraine |
5,170,368 |
1,614,636 |
|
United Arab Emirates |
1,170,565 |
191,794 |
| Uzbekistan | 7,174,483 | 299,634 |
| Venezuela* |
6,866,822 |
-- |
| TOTAL | 670,786,551 | 105,955,295 |
