Sindh has one of the worst literary rates in the country, with one 2021 report putting the number of out-of-school children in the province as high as 44%.
"The total population of five- to 16-year-old [children] in Sindh is 14,675,864. [And] 44 per cent of this population is reported [to be] out of school. This amounts to a total of 6,484,007 children unable to go to school in the province," said the study by Pak Alliance for Maths and Science.