South Africa - Secondary education, general pupils

The value for Secondary education, general pupils in South Africa was 4,696,742 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,904,846 in 2015 and a minimum value of 542,194 in 1970.

Definition: Secondary general pupils are the number of secondary students enrolled in general education programs, including teacher training.

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

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Year Value
1970 542,194
1986 1,594,147
1987 1,766,856
1988 1,928,929
1989 2,512,293
1990 2,701,024
1991 2,902,851
1992 2,480,699
1993 2,658,726
1994 3,523,594
1995 3,749,449
1998 4,084,064
1999 4,078,846
2000 3,943,618
2001 4,029,272
2002 4,108,709
2003 4,186,882
2004 4,317,903
2005 4,430,708
2006 4,544,205
2007 4,549,341
2008 4,403,754
2009 4,418,904
2010 4,471,468
2011 4,534,439
2012 4,597,285
2014 4,858,085
2015 4,904,846
2016 4,778,550
2017 4,696,742

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