Education in Balochistan — the Full Picture
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The province at a glance
Open-data analytics →Population & literacy
Literacy rate (age 10+)
Share of the population that can read and write.
How literacy compares
Balochistan vs the national benchmark, and the female gap.
Population (2023 Census)
Total residents by sex.
Out-of-school children
The province's defining education challengeIn vs out of school
Balochistan has the highest out-of-school rate in Pakistan.
Who is left out, by sex
Share of children deprived of basic education.
of children aged 5–16 have never attended any school — the highest share of any province.
Literacy across the provinces
PSLM 2024–25: Balochistan sits last at 49% — 19 points below Punjab and 14 below the national average — but rose 9 points since 2018–19, the biggest provincial gain.
Out-of-school rate by province
The share of school-age children not enrolled anywhere.
How far children get — enrolment by level
HIES/PSLM 2024–25 — gross and net enrolment rates, BalochistanGross enrolment rate (GER)
All enrolled children as a share of the age group — falls at every step up.
Net enrolment rate (NER)
Only children of the right age for the level — the sharper picture.
of Balochistan's 14–15-year-olds are in matric classes (9–10) — and only of girls. Each level loses roughly half the children of the one before it.
The government school system
Schools by level
The system is overwhelmingly primary — the pyramid narrows sharply above it.
The teacher squeeze
Most primary schools run on too few teachers.
BESP 2020–25 priorities
The province's own plan to close these gaps.
The school facilities gap
Basic facilities missing across government schools — each bar is the number of schools going without (share in the label).
Key findings
Sources
Official national and provincial data, plus sector reporting.