Declining around the world: The share of primary-school-age children who are out of schoolhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/Share-primary-school-age-out-of-school …
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Three populous African countries did poorly over the 1980shttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/Share-primary-school-age-out-of-school?year=1991&country=COD+ETH+TZA …
Based on a quick check it looks like dictators (and their wars) were the source of the problem, plus famine in Ethiopia.
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and also demographic changes were not favorable for getting many kids into school in Africa in the 80s:https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-dependency-ratio-the-ration-between-under-19-year-olds-and-20-to-69-year-olds?tab=chart&country=Africa+Sub-Saharan%20Africa …
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Wow, Our World in Data is really useful!
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