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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned in a report released on Thursday, August 8, 2019 that 15 million out-of-school children are currently enrolled in the Middle East and North Africa, mainly in because of conflicts, and that number will increase by about 5 million by 2030.
"There are 15 million out-of-school children in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, many of them due to conflict," the report says.
"Without urgent investments in health care, education, employment and participation," she warned, "by 2030, we will have 5 million children no additional schooling ". . "The MENA population is expected to more than double in the first half of the 21st century, with an unprecedented proportion of the region's population going to the most productive phase of their lives," the report says.
"This provides an opportunity to achieve a demographic dividend – economic growth as a result of demographic change," the report said. These policies, such as "improving access to health care, protection, education, and meaningful participation, will improve opportunities for productive employment and increase per capita income." which will boost growth and increase wealth, "he said. There are currently seen 124 million "young and young and young men and women in North Africa and Middle East", where children and young people under 24, about half of the population of the region ".
More than a third of young people in the Middle East, about 37 percent, live in "fragile and conflict-affected countries" and "58 percent of refugees and about half of the world's displaced". "Of the 23.5 million children in the preparatory year in the region, at least 3.5 million are out of school and another 2.9 million are at risk of dropping out," the report notes. The region has the highest youth unemployment rate in the world: 29% in North Africa and 25% in the rest of the region. The organization called for "increased investment in early childhood development, in appropriate and quality education and in the active participation of adolescents and young people".
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is currently experiencing many years of conflict, including the war in Syria, the conflicts in Libya, Yemen and Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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