Lower secondary school starting age (years) - Country Ranking

Definition: Lower secondary school starting age is the age at which students would enter lower secondary education, assuming they had started at the official entrance age for the lowest level of education, had studied full-time throughout and had progressed through the system without repeating or skipping a grade.

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

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Namibia 14.00 2021
1 Tanzania 14.00 2021
1 South Africa 14.00 2021
1 Zambia 14.00 2021
5 El Salvador 13.00 2021
5 Sweden 13.00 2021
5 Mozambique 13.00 2021
5 Niger 13.00 2021
5 Papua New Guinea 13.00 2021
5 Poland 13.00 2021
5 Norway 13.00 2021
5 Mali 13.00 2021
5 Rwanda 13.00 2021
5 Guatemala 13.00 2021
5 Afghanistan 13.00 2021
5 Switzerland 13.00 2021
5 Denmark 13.00 2021
5 Estonia 13.00 2021
5 Ethiopia 13.00 2021
5 Finland 13.00 2021
5 Guinea 13.00 2021
5 The Gambia 13.00 2021
5 Equatorial Guinea 13.00 2021
5 Eswatini 13.00 2021
5 Uganda 13.00 2021
5 Zimbabwe 13.00 2021
5 Bhutan 13.00 2021
5 Botswana 13.00 2021
5 Burundi 13.00 2021
5 Indonesia 13.00 2021
5 Ireland 13.00 2021
5 Iceland 13.00 2021
5 Lesotho 13.00 2021
5 Latvia 13.00 2021
35 Morocco 12.00 2021
35 Cambodia 12.00 2021
35 St. Kitts and Nevis 12.00 2021
35 Israel 12.00 2021
35 Jordan 12.00 2021
35 Japan 12.00 2021
35 Lebanon 12.00 2021
35 Liberia 12.00 2021
35 St. Lucia 12.00 2021
35 Liechtenstein 12.00 2021
35 Iran 12.00 2021
35 Bolivia 12.00 2021
35 Georgia 12.00 2021
35 Ghana 12.00 2021
35 Honduras 12.00 2021
35 Burkina Faso 12.00 2021
35 Bahrain 12.00 2021
35 Dominica 12.00 2021
35 Dominican Republic 12.00 2021
35 Spain 12.00 2021
35 Fiji 12.00 2021
35 Central African Republic 12.00 2021
35 Chile 12.00 2021
35 Côte d'Ivoire 12.00 2021
35 Cameroon 12.00 2020
35 Congo 12.00 2021
35 Cabo Verde 12.00 2021
35 Cuba 12.00 2021
35 Angola 12.00 2021
35 Andorra 12.00 2021
35 Antigua and Barbuda 12.00 2021
35 Australia 12.00 2021
35 Seychelles 12.00 2021
35 Syrian Arab Republic 12.00 2021
35 Chad 12.00 2021
35 Togo 12.00 2021
35 Nauru 12.00 2021
35 Malawi 12.00 2021
35 Slovenia 12.00 2021
35 Timor-Leste 12.00 2021
35 Trinidad and Tobago 12.00 2021
35 Tunisia 12.00 2021
35 Tuvalu 12.00 2021
35 Uruguay 12.00 2021
35 United States 12.00 2021
35 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 12.00 2021
35 Greece 12.00 2021
35 Grenada 12.00 2021
35 Guinea-Bissau 12.00 2021
35 Ecuador 12.00 2021
35 Egypt 12.00 2021
35 Comoros 12.00 2021
35 Costa Rica 12.00 2021
35 Cyprus 12.00 2021
35 China 12.00 2021
35 Dem. Rep. Congo 12.00 2021
35 Brunei 12.00 2021
35 Canada 12.00 2021
35 Argentina 12.00 2021
35 Belgium 12.00 2021
35 Benin 12.00 2021
35 Guyana 12.00 2021
35 Hong Kong SAR, China 12.00 2021
35 Iraq 12.00 2021
35 Jamaica 12.00 2021
35 Kenya 12.00 2021
35 Haiti 12.00 2021
35 Kiribati 12.00 2021
35 Korea 12.00 2021
35 Libya 12.00 2021
35 Macao SAR, China 12.00 2021
35 Mexico 12.00 2021
35 Singapore 12.00 2021
35 Solomon Islands 12.00 2021
35 Sierra Leone 12.00 2021
35 Somalia 12.00 2021
35 São Tomé and Principe 12.00 2021
35 Philippines 12.00 2020
35 Palau 12.00 2021
35 Portugal 12.00 2021
35 Qatar 12.00 2021
35 Nicaragua 12.00 2021
35 Netherlands 12.00 2021
35 Puerto Rico 12.00 2021
35 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 12.00 2020
35 Paraguay 12.00 2021
35 Panama 12.00 2021
35 Peru 12.00 2021
35 Saudi Arabia 12.00 2021
35 Sudan 12.00 2021
35 Senegal 12.00 2021
35 Nigeria 12.00 2021
35 Vanuatu 12.00 2021
35 Luxembourg 12.00 2021
35 Mauritania 12.00 2021
35 Malaysia 12.00 2021
35 Thailand 12.00 2021
35 Tonga 12.00 2021
35 Suriname 12.00 2021
35 Yemen 12.00 2021
35 Venezuela 12.00 2021
136 Samoa 11.00 2021
136 Uzbekistan 11.00 2021
136 Montenegro 11.00 2021
136 San Marino 11.00 2021
136 Serbia 11.00 2021
136 New Caledonia 11.00 2021
136 New Zealand 11.00 2021
136 Romania 11.00 2021
136 Malta 11.00 2021
136 Mongolia 11.00 2021
136 Mauritius 11.00 2021
136 Russia 11.00 2021
136 Kuwait 11.00 2021
136 India 11.00 2021
136 Kyrgyz Republic 11.00 2021
136 Croatia 11.00 2021
136 Bangladesh 11.00 2021
136 Bulgaria 11.00 2021
136 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11.00 2021
136 Belize 11.00 2021
136 Brazil 11.00 2021
136 Colombia 11.00 2021
136 Eritrea 11.00 2021
136 Algeria 11.00 2021
136 Gabon 11.00 2021
136 United Kingdom 11.00 2021
136 Vietnam 11.00 2021
136 Tajikistan 11.00 2021
136 Albania 11.00 2021
136 Cayman Islands 11.00 2021
136 Czech Republic 11.00 2021
136 Djibouti 11.00 2021
136 France 11.00 2021
136 The Bahamas 11.00 2021
136 Hungary 11.00 2021
136 Barbados 11.00 2021
136 Italy 11.00 2021
136 Lao PDR 11.00 2021
136 Lithuania 11.00 2021
136 Monaco 11.00 2021
136 Moldova 11.00 2021
136 Madagascar 11.00 2021
136 North Macedonia 11.00 2021
179 Myanmar 10.00 2021
179 Kazakhstan 10.00 2021
179 Ukraine 10.00 2021
179 Austria 10.00 2021
179 Oman 10.00 2021
179 Pakistan 10.00 2021
179 Germany 10.00 2021
179 Belarus 10.00 2021
179 Armenia 10.00 2021
179 Azerbaijan 10.00 2021
179 United Arab Emirates 10.00 2020
179 Sri Lanka 10.00 2021
179 Slovak Republic 10.00 2021
179 Nepal 10.00 2021
179 Turkey 10.00 2021
179 Turkmenistan 10.00 2021

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Limitations and Exceptions: The theoretical entrance age to a given programme or level is typically, but not always, the most common entrance age.

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: 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).

Periodicity: Annual