The number of children out of school in South Africa declined to 568,104 children in 2021. Nevertheless, the last two years recorded a significant higher number of children out of school than the preceding years. Out-of-school children are the number of school-age children enrolled in primary or secondary school minus the total population of the official primary school-age children.
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