Barriers to Quality Education 
Lack of Education Funding
Developing countries cannot rely solely on their own funding for education. They also need foreign money. (Rueckert, 2019).
Only 20% of aid for education goes to low-income countries, according to the Global Partnership for Education. (Rueckert, 2019)
It costs an average of 1.25 a day per child in developing countries to provide 13 years of education. (Rueckert, 2019).
If each developing country could invest 15 cents more into each child's education, it would make a huge difference. (Rueckert, 2019).
Lack of educational supplies
Without the necessary supplies, students nor teachers are able to give or receive quality education.
Outdated and worn-out textbooks are often shared by six or more students in many parts of the world. (Rueckert, 2019)
Materials are extremely expensive and not as easily accessible in developing countries.
In Cameroon, there are 11 primary school students for every reading textbook and 13 for every mathematics textbook in second grade. (Rueckert, 2019)
In Tanzania, only 3.5% of all sixth grade pupils had sole use of a reading textbook. (Rueckert, 2019)
Being the wrong gender
Gender is a consistent issue in many circumstances, quality education included.
Over 130 million young women around the world are not currently enrolled in school. (Rueckert, 2019)
Girls make up more than 54% of the non-schooled population in the world. (Humanium, 2022).
One in 3 girls in the developing world marries before the age of 18, and usually leaves school if they do. (Rueckert, 2019).
Early Marriage and pregnancy
Discrimination against
certain students
Hunger and poor nutrition
When looking at Maslow's hiearchy of needs, students cannot learn if their basic needs are not met, and hunger is one of those.
Many students in developing countries are suffering from hunger.
It is estimated that around 155 million children under the age of five are estimated to be stunted. (Rueckert, 2019).
Stunting –– impaired growth and development that children experience from poor infection, and inadequate stimulation –– can affect a child’s cognitive abilities as well as their focus and concentration in school. (Rueckert, 2019).
12 million girls are forcibly married each year. (Action Education, 2022).
If all girls completed elementary school, child marriage would decrease by 14 %. (Action Education, 2022).
18.5 million 12-19 year olds become mothers. (Action Education, 2022)
In some of the world’s poorest countries, up to 95% of children with disabilities are out of school. (Rueckert, 2019).
A very large number of children are currently excluded from education because of their genre of their ethnicity of their religion or their language. (Action Education, 2022)
This discrimination applies to gender, disabilities, language, and many other things that may not be deemed "normal" by a country.