Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia

Mongolia: Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education was 12 in 2019. ▲ Rising

Latest (2019)
12
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
5th
of 205 countries
All-time high
12
in 2011
All-time low
7
in 2002
Years of data
22
1998–2019

Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia, 1998–2019

02.557.51012.51998200820191998: 81999: 82000: 82001: 82002: 72003: 72004: 72005: 82006: 112007: 112008: 112009: 112010: 112011: 122012: 122013: 122014: 122015: 122016: 122017: 122018: 122019: 12

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Analysis

Mongolia recorded 12 for number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in 2019. That is the highest value across all 22 years on record.

That represents a change of up 9.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia peaked at 12 in 2011 and was at its lowest, 7, in 2002.

Mongolia ranks 5th of 205 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 22 years of available data.

Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia, year by year

Annual values for Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks in Mongolia, 1998 to 2019.
Year Value Change
1998 8
1999 8 +0.0%
2000 8 +0.0%
2001 8 +0.0%
2002 7 -12.5%
2003 7 +0.0%
2004 7 +0.0%
2005 8 +14.3%
2006 11 +37.5%
2007 11 +0.0%
2008 11 +0.0%
2009 11 +0.0%
2010 11 +0.0%
2011 12 +9.1%
2012 12 +0.0%
2013 12 +0.0%
2014 12 +0.0%
2015 12 +0.0%
2016 12 +0.0%
2017 12 +0.0%
2018 12 +0.0%
2019 12 +0.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 8 8 8 2
2000s 8.9 7 11 10
2010s 11.9 11 12 10

Countries ranked near Mongolia

  1. 5 Argentina 12 compare
  2. 5 Armenia 12 compare
  3. 5 Austria 12 compare
  4. 5 Bahamas 12 compare
  5. 5 Belgium 12 compare
  6. 5 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 12 compare
  7. 5 Brazil 12 compare
  8. 5 British Virgin Islands 12 compare
  9. 5 Chile 12 compare
  10. 5 Curaçao 12 compare
  11. 5 Dominica 12 compare
  12. 5 Dominican Republic 12 compare
  13. 5 Ecuador 12 compare
  14. 5 Egypt 12 compare
  15. 5 France 12 compare
  16. 5 Grenada 12 compare
  17. 5 Israel 12 compare
  18. 5 Italy 12 compare
  19. 5 Kenya 12 compare
  20. 5 Marshall Islands 12 compare
  21. 5 Mexico 12 compare
  22. 5 Naoero 12 compare
  23. 5 Netherlands 12 compare
  24. 5 Pakistan 12 compare
  25. 5 Palau 12 compare
  26. 5 Paraguay 12 compare
  27. 5 Philippines 12 compare
  28. 5 Portugal 12 compare
  29. 5 Puerto Rico 12 compare
  30. 5 Saint Kitts and Nevis 12 compare
  31. 5 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12 compare
  32. 5 Türkiye 12 compare
  33. 5 Turkmenistan 12 compare
  34. 5 United States of America 12 compare
  35. 5 Uruguay 12 compare
  36. 5 Uzbekistan 12 compare

See the full ranking of 205 places →

More reference data data for Mongolia

All data for Mongolia →

Frequently asked questions

What is number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia?
Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia was 12 in 2019, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education recorded in Mongolia?
The highest recorded value was 12 in 2011.
What is the lowest number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education recorded in Mongolia?
The lowest recorded value was 7 in 2002.
How does Mongolia rank for number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education?
Mongolia ranks 5th out of 205 countries with data for 2019.
Is number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education rising or falling in Mongolia?
Over the last ten years it is up 9.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Mongolia data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 22 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 06 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/number-of-years-of-compulsory-primary-and-secondary-education-guaranteed-in-legal/mongolia/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/number-of-years-of-compulsory-primary-and-secondary-education-guaranteed-in-legal/mongolia/">Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education in Mongolia</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education guaranteed in legal frameworks
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
205 places, 4,529 data points, 1975–2020
Last refreshed

Number of years of compulsory primary and secondary education. Most countries have legislation specifying the ages and the level of education (typically pre-primary or primary education) at which children should start school. Such legislation usually also specifies either the number of years of education that are guaranteed or the age at which young people may leave education or, in some cases, both. The number of years of primary and secondary education to which children are legally entitled should ideally be the number of grades of primary and secondary education which young people are expected to have completed before being legally eligible to leave school. Years of pre-primary education covered by the legal entitlement should be excluded from this indicator. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/