China - Primary education, pupils

The value for Primary education, pupils in China was 106,250,500 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 150,941,000 in 1976 and a minimum value of 95,107,120 in 2014.

Definition: Primary education pupils is the total number of pupils enrolled at primary level in public and private schools.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1970 100,668,000
1971 105,280,000
1972 112,112,000
1973 125,492,000
1974 135,704,000
1975 144,814,000
1976 150,941,000
1977 150,055,000
1978 146,176,000
1979 146,240,000
1980 146,629,400
1981 146,270,000
1982 143,328,000
1983 139,720,400
1984 135,780,400
1985 135,571,200
1986 133,701,800
1987 131,825,000
1988 128,358,500
1989 125,357,800
1990 123,731,000
1991 122,413,800
1992 121,641,500
1993 122,012,800
1994 124,212,400
1995 128,226,200
1996 131,951,500
1997 136,150,000
1998 139,953,700
2001 130,132,500
2006 108,925,200
2007 107,394,800
2008 105,950,500
2009 103,617,100
2010 101,018,600
2011 99,707,840
2012 99,540,480
2013 98,870,820
2014 95,107,120
2015 95,958,040
2016 98,189,340
2017 100,321,000
2018 101,873,000
2019 104,325,200
2020 106,250,500

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Enrollment includes Individuals officially registered in a given educational programme, or stage or module thereof, regardless of age. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Participation