South Africa - Secondary education, pupils

The value for Secondary education, pupils in South Africa was 5,036,694 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,279,196 in 2015 and a minimum value of 2,552,024 in 1989.

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

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

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Year Value
1989 2,552,024
1990 2,742,105
1991 2,939,270
1994 3,571,395
1998 4,244,415
1999 4,239,197
2000 4,141,946
2001 4,250,400
2002 4,353,817
2003 4,446,841
2004 4,593,492
2005 4,657,674
2006 4,790,382
2007 4,815,932
2008 4,671,139
2009 4,687,958
2010 4,689,600
2011 4,756,111
2012 4,843,800
2014 5,220,975
2015 5,279,196
2016 5,164,481
2017 5,052,180
2018 4,878,960
2019 5,036,694

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