Are there countries with no state education

Factual Questions
1

Excluding countries in a state of war, are there any within which the only way a child can get an education is if it is paid for by an individual, family etc.

2

Yes, most of the countries on Earth do not provide state-funded education.

3

You’re saying that the majority of nations do not have any state-funded education whatsoever?
That really does come as news, and a shock, to me.

4

It wouldn’t surprise me to find that a significant number of third-world countries do not have universally-available education. I guess the question could be refined in two different ways - are there any countries where no child has access to free education (because there could be schools in the cities but nowhere else, for example); or, are there any developed countries where free education is not available to all?

Googling for answers to either…

5

Worldwide, 21% of children have no access to education: http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/promises/education.html

6

Thanks **G-Man **, that’s sobering stuff. It does seem to suggest, however, that some semblance of education exists in all countries mentioned and:

“Often the denial of education is directly linked to civil and political rights violations of children such as the illegal employment of children in hazardous and exploitative labor, the detention of children in prisons, and discrimination against children from ethnic, linguistic or religious minority groups, or based on gender, disability, or other status. Thus effective protection of children requires addressing these rights issues for children simultaneously”

This doesn’t tally with Bosca’s assertion that most countries do not offer state-funded education. While that seems a wild exaggeration, does anyone know of any examples?

7

Bosda.

Sorry, I should have expressed myself better–the overwhelming majority of children by population do not have access to free, State-run education.

Many governments provide education to select ethnic groups, only in cities, to the politically reliable, or only to males, etc.

But all claims should be taken with a grain of salt–children of migrant farm workers here in the US don’t really have many educational opportunities, now do they?