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March 02, 2021 One year after the start of the Covid pandemic, children and adolescents around the world have lost an average of 74 days of education each, more than a third of the global average school year of 190 days.

This is what emerges from the data released today by Save the Children, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Covid 19 pandemic. Globally



, it is estimated that 112 billion days of education have been lost overall and that they were the poorest children in the world to be affected disproportionately.

The figure is calculated between February 16, 2020 and February 2, 2021. 



In the presence of less than half of the foreseen days

Italian students found themselves attending their institutes for much less than half of the theoretically foreseen days.

From September 2020 to the end of February 2021, the children of preschools in Bari, for example, were able to attend 48 days out of the 107 planned in person, against their peers in Milan who were in the classroom all 112 days.



Middle school students in Naples went to school 42 days out of 97 while those in Rome were in attendance for all 108 days. 



As for high schools, the boys and girls of Reggio Calabria were able to participate in classroom lessons in person for 35.5 days against 97 on the calendar, their peers in Florence went to school 75.1 days out of 106 .   



The pandemic that last year forced students to abruptly interrupt their presence at school three months before the end of the school year, also severely marked their ability to attend classrooms in 2020/21. differences between cities, linked to the trend of the risk of contagion as well as to the different administrative choices.

The numbers recorded refer to school days lived in presence, highlighting those areas where students have benefited from longer periods of distance learning, with the difficulties that this entailed in terms of accessibility and the loss of direct relationship opportunities between peers. and with the teachers.