education2018

Over-age students, primary (% of enrollment)

Compare over-age students, primary (% of enrollment) across 83 countries or territories using one fixed 2018 World Bank reference slice.

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Key Insights

Global Average
8.3%
Median: 6.5%
Countries Covered
83
with available data
Highest
Solomon Islands
36.5%
Lowest
Sierra Leone
0.2%
Top 5 Countries
1Solomon Islands36.5%
2Pakistan26.4%
3Madagascar25.0%
4Rwanda24.9%
5Eritrea24.7%
By Region
North America10.3%(1 countries)
Africa9.4%(4 countries)
Other9.0%(62 countries)
South America8.0%(3 countries)
Europe4.7%(2 countries)
Key Findings
  • 83 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite % observation in the fixed 2018 slice.
  • Solomon Islands has the highest published value (36.459 %).
  • Sierra Leone has the lowest published value (0.19047 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.2%)High (36.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 8.3%)

North America (1)
Africa (4)
Other (62)
South America (3)
Europe (2)
Asia (11)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Over-age students are the percentage of those enrolled who are older than the official school-age range for primary education.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2018 World Bank slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.

Methodology

Over-age students are the percentage of those enrolled who are older than the official school-age range for primary education.

Full Data

Rank Country Value
1Solomon Islands36.5%
2Pakistan26.4%
3Madagascar25.0%
4Rwanda24.9%
5Eritrea24.7%
6Mauritania20.3%
7Malawi19.3%
8Republic of The Gambia19.0%
9Togo17.9%
10Comoros17.9%
11Burundi17.1%
12Mozambique16.6%
13Timor-Leste16.1%
14Suriname16.0%
15Burkina Faso15.8%
16Namibia15.7%
17Ghana15.4%
18Colombia15.2%
19Cambodia13.9%
20Costa Rica13.7%
21El Salvador13.2%
22Morocco13.0%
23Djibouti11.9%
24Bhutan11.5%
25Dominican Republic11.1%
26Lao People's Democratic Republic10.6%
27Guatemala10.3%
28Cape Verde10.2%
29Myanmar8.8%
30Belize8.7%
31Samoa8.5%
32Bahamas8.5%
33Ukraine8.5%
34Cote d'Ivoire8.0%
35Benin7.9%
36Mali7.1%
37Azerbaijan7.1%
38Andorra6.8%
39Lebanon6.7%
40Albania6.6%
41Algeria6.6%
42Turks and Caicos Islands6.5%
43Peru5.6%
44Belarus5.5%
45Bolivia5.4%
46Jamaica5.3%
47Tunisia5.2%
48Saudi Arabia4.4%
49Grenada4.1%
50Brunei Darussalam4.1%
51Macao4.0%
52Bosnia and Herzegovina3.9%
53Seychelles3.6%
54Antigua and Barbuda3.6%
55Ecuador3.0%
56Mauritius2.8%
57Saint Lucia2.7%
58Bahrain2.7%
59Cuba2.6%
60Kuwait2.6%
61Hong Kong2.6%
62Egypt2.5%
63Qatar2.5%
64Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2.4%
65Montenegro2.3%
66Armenia2.1%
67Barbados1.9%
68Mongolia1.8%
69Cayman Islands1.8%
70Monaco1.8%
71State of Palestine1.5%
72Georgia1.4%
73Moldova, Republic of1.4%
74Indonesia1.3%
75Vietnam1.2%
76Kyrgyzstan1.1%
77Sri Lanka0.9%
78Serbia0.9%
79Jordan0.7%
80Kazakhstan0.7%
81Oman0.7%
82Uzbekistan0.4%
83Sierra Leone0.2%
Showing 83 of 83 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2018).

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