Somalia

Somalia's statelessness and clan conflict have left it without a functioning national education system for over 30 years, yielding the lowest primary enrollment rate on Earth at just 18%. Only 30% of children who start primary school complete it, a rate 15% lower than Mali's completion metric, and 70% of youth remain illiterate—double the average for conflict zones. This collapse has created a 95% gender parity deficit, worse than the typical fragile state, with no cohesive curriculum in sight by 2026.