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According to the Global Education Monitoring Team (GEM) report the global out-of-school population is now estimated to be 272 million, over 21 million more than the last estimate.

About Global Education Monitoring Report

It is an annual publication produced by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
It is an authoritative and evidence-based assessment of progress, challenges, and trends in education worldwide.
The GEM Report was launched in 2002 as the Education for All Global Monitoring Report and transitioned to its current name in 2016.
Its primary purpose is to monitor and analyze global education trends and provide policy recommendations to governments and stakeholders to improve education systems and outcomes.

Highlights of the Report

It has pointed out that by 2025, countries will be off-track by 75 million relative to their national targets.
The out-of-school model estimates assume stable patterns of school-age population progression through the education system.
The model used multiple data sources ( administrative, survey and census) to generate internally consistent trends of regional and global averages.

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