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Table 3 Labor market and education histories, individuals aged 15–29

From: Pathways from school to work in the developing world

      

Individuals who have left education

Region

Country

Left education

Left education before age 15

Never in education

Worked while in school

Worked since leaving school

Stable work since leaving school

No work since leaving school but searched/ training

Never in labor force

 

Bangladesh

76.5

n.a.

13.9

12.8

31.4

13.8

2.5

28.2

Cambodia

66.7

50.0

2.6

40.6

61.7

27.6

0.6

1.9

Nepal

40.4

27.7

7.9

29.3

23.4

9.4

2.2

6.8

Samoa

63.3

20.3

0.1

3.9

29.5

25.1

1.8

30.6

Vietnam

68.8

48.8

2.2

19

61.4

40.2

0.9

3.7

Average

 

64.4

33.8

1.5

20.2

43.7

26.2

1.3

17.2

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Armenia

54.7

7.00

0.3

11.9

34.5

25.8

9.2

10.6

Kyrgyz Rep.

58.9

11.4

0.6

25.8

46.9

19.4

2.1

9.0

Macedonia, FYR

53.0

21.3

0.9

14.0

27.0

20.4

17.4

6.8

Moldova, Rep.

57.1

14.1

0.5

39.3

46.7

8.1

2.00

5.3

Russian Fed.

63.9

4.4

0.0.

23.4

50.0

44.6

4.6

5.7

Ukraine

58.4

3.6

0.0

29.7

47.00

41.6

4.5

6.6

Average

 

57.5

9.9

0.5

21.2

42.3

23.2

5.2

9.1

Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil

63.2

16.4

0.1

90.9

51.3

45.2

2.1

0.2

Colombia

54.7

n.a.

n.a.

n.a.

36.9

29.4

1.8

2.3

El Salvador

63.8

41.1

1.7

25.2

41.2

29.6

2.8

16.8

Jamaica

64.8

16.3

0.0

21

44.7

37.9

14.9

4.7

Peru

55.3

12.6

0.5

39.4

44.1

37.4

2.4

8.0

Average

 

63.1

28.1

0.9

29.5

43.3

34.3

6.7

10.1

Middle East and North Africa

Egypt

71.1

n.a.

5.8

21.9

25.5

4.5

7.0

8.3

Jordan

57.1

20.4

0.5

6.0

32.2

30.2

7.8

16.7

OPT

55.2

12.7

0.2

14.6

26.3

10.4

10.4

10.4

Tunisia

61.9

33.8

2.2

22

33.4

26

10.0

9.9

Average

 

57.7

14.1

1.0

14.3

27.1

12.6

9.5

11.1

Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin

50.7

52.0

28.8

14.4

13.0

2.2

7.3

1.5

Liberia

39.5

24.4

10.5

20.3

12.3

1.2

5.4

3.3

Madagascar

77.9

63.4

14.8

39.7

47.8

11.3

0.3

1.9

Malawi

63.8

n.a.

4.5

25.9

47.7

12.3

1.3

10.4

Tanzania

71.0

23.2

2.5

19.5

44.5

17.3

4.0

15.7

Togo

60.1

43.4

15.9

22.9

33.8

6.5

6.6

1.9

Uganda

60.5

43.1

4.2

39.7

48.1

18.7

1.8

5.0

Zambia

59.6

16.2

2.8

13.7

15.8

6.3

7.7

15.1

Average

 

60.9

39.8

13.2

21.5

33.0

8.7

5.2

6.3

Tot. average

 

61.2

27.7

4.1

20.0

37.6

19.2

4.7

11.8

  1. Notes. The table reports statistics on past labor market experiences collected retrospectively at the time of the STWT survey. See also notes to Table 1