The 2023 UNHCR Refugee Education Report draws on data from more than 70 countries worldwide to provide the most detailed picture yet of the state of refugee education and enrolment. Its findings reveal that despite areas of progress more than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children remain out of formal education risking their future prosperity and denying them the chance to fulfil their potential.

This year’s UNHCR Education Report focuses in particular on secondary education – the crucial yet critically under-resourced stage for refugees towards greater independence and improved prospects in life. Each year our methodology for the Education Report is improved though this by itself can cause some fluctuations in the statistics. This year the number of countries reporting data on refugee education has risen to more than 40 providing a fuller picture than in years past. The total refugee population for reporting countries was 12.65 million which constitutes more than half of the combined refugee population and Venezuelans displaced abroad under UNHCR’s mandate.