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Official entrance age to early childhood educational development (years) by country

Age at which students would enter early childhood educational development. For more information, visit the UNESCO Institute for Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/

Countries reporting
62
Highest
5 years
Eritrea
Lowest
0 years
Antigua and Barbuda
Median
1 years
Years covered
49
1972–2020
Data points
1,319

What the numbers show

Official entrance age to early childhood educational development (years) is currently reported for 62 countries. The highest value is 5 years in Eritrea; the lowest is 0 years in Antigua and Barbuda.

The median across all reporting countries is 1 years, and the mean is 1.16 years.

Over the past decade 1 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Belarus (up 100.0%), and the largest decrease in New Zealand (down 100.0%).

Official entrance age to early childhood educational development: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Eritrea 5 years 2012 unchanged flat
2 Benin 4 years 2011 unchanged flat
3 Mongolia 3 years 2009 unchanged flat
3 North Korea 3 years 2019 unchanged flat
3 Canada 3 years 2019 unchanged flat
3 Namibia 3 years 2019 unchanged flat
7 Hungary 2 years 2020 unchanged flat
7 Saudi Arabia 2 years 2019 unchanged flat
7 Russia 2 years 2020 unchanged flat
7 Mauritius 2 years 2019 unchanged flat
7 Belarus 2 years 2019 up 100.0% rising
7 Gambia 2 years 2020 unchanged falling
7 Guinea 2 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Morocco 1 years 2019 unchanged falling
14 Montenegro 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 North Macedonia 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Moldova 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Nigeria 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Latvia 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Sweden 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Saint Lucia 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Slovenia 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Kyrgyzstan 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Norway 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Sao Tome and Principe 1 years 2019 down 50.0% falling
14 Pakistan 1 years 2013 unchanged flat
14 Paraguay 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Senegal 1 years 2003 — falling
14 Serbia 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Ukraine 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Albania 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Australia 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Azerbaijan 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Bahrain 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 years 2019 down 80.0% volatile
14 Brazil 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Venezuela 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Cayman Islands 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Finland 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 United Kingdom 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 South Korea 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Equatorial Guinea 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Turkey 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Croatia 1 years 2019 unchanged volatile
14 Indonesia 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Turkmenistan 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Kazakhstan 1 years 2020 unchanged flat
14 Thailand 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
14 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1 years 2019 unchanged flat
50 Zambia 0.5 years 2013 down 83.3% falling
50 Japan 0.5 years 2012 unchanged flat
52 New Zealand 0 years 2019 down 100.0% volatile
52 Mauritania 0 years 2019 down 100.0% volatile
52 Lithuania 0 years 2020 down 100.0% volatile
52 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0 years 2019 down 100.0% volatile
52 Cambodia 0 years 2019 — volatile
52 Guatemala 0 years 2019 — volatile
52 Ghana 0 years 2019 down 100.0% volatile
52 Chile 0 years 2019 — volatile
52 British Virgin Islands 0 years 2019 — volatile
52 South Africa 0 years 2019 down 100.0% falling
52 Antigua and Barbuda 0 years 2019 down 100.0% volatile

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Indicator
Official entrance age to early childhood educational development (years)
Unit
years
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
97 places, 1,319 data points, 1972–2020
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Age at which students would enter early childhood educational development. For more information, visit the UNESCO Institute for Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/