Census alert: 64% of Lankans aged 19-24 not in education
View(s):One-fourth of Sri Lanka’s population (26.2 percent) was engaged in some form of educational activity, the 2024 census statistics revealed.
Another 482,106, or 2.3 percent of the population, were attending pre-school, 4,351,225 (20.6 percent) were attending in-school education, 320,989 (1.5 percent) were engaged in graduate or post-graduate studies, 0.6 percent were following vocational or technical education, and 1.3 percent were involved in other forms of education.
Meanwhile, 73.7 percent of people aged 3 years and over were not engaged in any educational activity.
The percentage distribution of involvement or non-involvement in educational activities during the reference period varies across different age groups. A higher percentage of the population in the 5-14 and 15-18 age groups were engaged in school education.
The 63.9 percent of the population in the 19-24 age group were not engaged in educational activities, while 98.3 percent of the population aged 25 years and over were not engaged in educational activities during the reference period. In Sri Lanka, the compulsory school age is between 5 and 16 years.
However, a possible reason for the relatively lower percentage of 88.4 percent of children aged 5-14 years attending school education observed in the census may be that, by the Census Date (19.12.2024), many children who had completed 5 years of age were scheduled to be admitted to Grade 1 in the following year (2025).
(KW)
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