Costa Rica - Primary education, pupils

The value for Primary education, pupils in Costa Rica was 492,761 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 569,513 in 1999 and a minimum value of 342,373 in 1982.

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/)

See also:

Year Value
1970 349,378
1971 356,152
1972 365,545
1973 373,901
1974 367,901
1975 361,303
1976 365,957
1977 367,026
1978 359,680
1979 353,894
1980 348,674
1981 348,616
1982 342,373
1983 343,800
1984 350,658
1985 362,877
1986 380,384
1987 393,305
1988 409,621
1989 422,102
1990 435,205
1991 453,297
1992 471,049
1993 484,958
1994 495,879
1995 507,037
1996 518,603
1997 525,273
1998 529,637
1999 569,513
2000 551,465
2001 552,302
2002 545,509
2004 558,084
2005 542,087
2006 546,542
2007 536,436
2008 534,816
2009 531,665
2010 520,609
2011 506,961
2012 494,720
2013 480,125
2014 475,731
2015 473,447
2016 475,756
2017 472,421
2018 483,770
2019 497,065
2020 492,761

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