Pre-education participation rate worldwide 2022, by region

72 percent of children worldwide were enrolled in pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education in 2022. In Europe and North America as well as Latin America and the Caribbean, around 90 percent of children were receiving some kind of pre-primary school education that year. By comparison, this was the case for less than 50 percent of children in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa.