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Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary general education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, male (%) by country

Percentage of pupils in each level of education (primary and lower secondary general education) who are at least 2 years above the intended age for their grade. The intended age for a given grade is the age at which pupils would enter the grade if they had started school at the official primary entrance age, had...

Countries reporting
151
Highest
79.5%
Liberia
Lowest
0.0%
Norway
Median
9.5%
Years covered
24
1997–2020
Data points
2,217

What the numbers show

Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary general education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, male (%) is currently reported for 151 countries. The highest value is 79.5% in Liberia; the lowest is 0.0% in Norway.

The median across all reporting countries is 9.5%, and the mean is 17.1%.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 113 fell. The largest increase was in Vanuatu (up 219.1%), and the largest decrease in Norway (down 100.0%).

Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary general education: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Liberia 79.5% 2017 down 12.2% falling
2 Eswatini 72.8% 2018 down 1.8% rising
3 Central African Republic 62.2% 2012 down 19.5% falling
4 Burkina Faso 59.2% 2019 up 45.2% rising
5 Madagascar 59.1% 2019 down 3.2% falling
6 Lesotho 58.9% 2017 down 18.4% falling
7 Namibia 55.5% 2017 up 17.5% flat
8 Burundi 54.7% 2019 down 40.9% falling
9 Eritrea 53.0% 2018 up 22.5% falling
10 Mozambique 51.9% 2019 down 27.9% falling
11 Uganda 51.9% 2017 down 4.8% falling
12 Nicaragua 51.5% 2010 up 43.6% rising
13 Vanuatu 51.2% 2013 up 219.1% rising
14 Equatorial Guinea 50.9% 2015 down 26.0% falling
15 Malawi 47.6% 2013 up 49.7% rising
16 Sao Tome and Principe 47.4% 2017 down 29.0% falling
17 Kenya 46.0% 2009 down 0.8% falling
18 Ghana 42.8% 2019 down 28.1% falling
19 Chad 42.0% 2019 — falling
20 Mauritania 41.9% 2019 down 24.6% falling
21 Botswana 40.6% 2014 down 24.7% falling
22 Rwanda 40.3% 2019 down 41.4% falling
23 Gambia 39.9% 2019 up 30.0% rising
24 Nepal 39.8% 2019 up 85.2% rising
25 Morocco 38.4% 2019 down 10.2% falling
26 East Timor 38.0% 2019 down 39.8% falling
27 Aruba 36.8% 2014 up 3.5% falling
28 Cape Verde 35.7% 2018 down 12.0% falling
29 Suriname 34.4% 2019 down 20.8% falling
30 Zambia 32.2% 2013 down 3.4% falling
31 Guinea 32.1% 2016 down 38.3% falling
32 Togo 31.9% 2019 down 31.0% falling
33 South Africa 31.7% 2018 up 16.9% falling
34 Cote d'Ivoire 31.5% 2019 down 0.1% falling
35 Bhutan 30.8% 2020 down 38.5% falling
36 Ethiopia 29.3% 2015 down 19.7% falling
37 Algeria 28.5% 2019 down 42.8% rising
38 Guatemala 28.4% 2019 down 11.4% falling
39 Senegal 25.8% 2014 down 33.6% falling
40 Colombia 25.8% 2018 down 18.6% falling
41 Laos 25.7% 2019 down 49.6% falling
42 Dominican Republic 25.1% 2019 down 0.1% falling
43 Niger 24.7% 2019 up 5.3% falling
44 El Salvador 24.2% 2018 down 20.4% falling
45 Djibouti 23.0% 2020 down 35.9% falling
46 British Virgin Islands 22.3% 2018 down 3.7% rising
47 Costa Rica 22.0% 2019 down 39.7% falling
48 Tanzania 21.6% 2016 down 62.8% falling
49 Philippines 21.6% 2018 — falling
50 Cambodia 21.1% 2019 down 56.3% falling
51 Dominica 20.1% 2016 up 88.3% flat
52 Brazil 20.0% 2018 down 12.2% falling
53 Tunisia 19.3% 2018 down 4.4% falling
54 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 19.2% 2018 up 6.0% falling
55 Sierra Leone 18.7% 2018 down 57.3% falling
56 Belize 18.6% 2019 down 33.7% falling
57 Bahamas 18.4% 2010 up 43.3% rising
58 Antigua and Barbuda 17.9% 2018 down 58.3% falling
59 Honduras 17.6% 2019 down 48.8% falling
60 Mali 17.3% 2017 down 19.5% flat
61 Uruguay 15.7% 2018 down 49.8% falling
62 Venezuela 14.4% 2017 down 29.8% falling
63 Bolivia 14.2% 2018 down 46.1% falling
64 Argentina 13.9% 2017 down 12.6% rising
65 Trinidad and Tobago 13.7% 2010 up 90.6% rising
66 Grenada 13.7% 2018 down 50.1% falling
67 Macao 13.6% 2019 down 57.0% falling
68 Panama 13.5% 2017 down 34.5% falling
69 Yemen 12.8% 2016 down 57.5% falling
70 Lebanon 12.5% 2019 down 31.5% falling
71 Samoa 12.3% 2019 down 24.4% rising
72 Afghanistan 11.5% 2018 down 43.9% falling
73 Azerbaijan 11.2% 2019 up 90.9% falling
74 Myanmar 10.1% 2018 down 26.9% falling
75 Chile 10.0% 2018 down 10.4% falling
76 Syria 9.5% 2013 up 1.6% rising
77 Austria 9.3% 2018 up 27.3% rising
78 Peru 8.5% 2019 down 51.5% falling
79 Luxembourg 8.4% 2018 down 10.1% falling
80 Ecuador 8.4% 2018 down 51.2% falling
81 Saudi Arabia 8.2% 2019 down 71.4% falling
82 Spain 8.2% 2018 — falling
83 Andorra 6.9% 2019 down 53.6% falling
84 Hong Kong 6.7% 2019 down 9.8% falling
85 United Arab Emirates 6.2% 2017 down 30.5% falling
86 Mauritius 6.1% 2019 down 41.4% falling
87 Puerto Rico 5.6% 2018 down 48.9% falling
88 Greece 5.5% 2018 down 3.0% falling
89 Belgium 5.5% 2018 down 35.4% falling
90 Oman 5.4% 2019 up 17.3% volatile
91 Qatar 5.3% 2019 up 2.3% falling
92 Romania 4.9% 2018 down 9.5% falling
93 United States 4.9% 2018 down 15.1% falling
94 Bangladesh 4.7% 2019 up 4.9% volatile
95 Barbados 4.6% 2019 down 56.0% falling
96 Estonia 4.3% 2018 down 7.2% falling
97 Brunei 4.3% 2019 down 57.5% volatile
98 Turks and Caicos Islands 3.9% 2018 down 77.7% volatile
99 Latvia 3.9% 2018 down 59.7% falling
100 Kuwait 3.9% 2019 down 69.0% falling
101 Jamaica 3.8% 2019 up 25.8% rising
102 Hungary 3.5% 2018 down 23.7% falling
103 Bahrain 3.1% 2019 down 62.1% falling
104 Saint Lucia 3.1% 2019 down 43.0% volatile
105 Albania 3.0% 2019 down 49.2% falling
106 Iran 2.9% 2017 down 72.4% falling
107 Mexico 2.9% 2018 down 47.4% falling
108 Fiji 2.9% 2019 down 63.3% falling
109 Tonga 2.6% 2015 down 92.7% volatile
110 Cyprus 2.4% 2018 up 5.5% flat
111 Thailand 2.3% 2019 down 48.9% falling
112 Italy 2.3% 2018 down 39.3% falling
113 Turkey 2.3% 2018 down 51.4% falling
114 Mongolia 2.2% 2018 down 49.4% rising
115 Jordan 2.2% 2019 up 170.2% rising
116 Australia 2.0% 2018 down 43.0% falling
117 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.8% 2016 down 19.5% falling
118 Cuba 1.5% 2019 up 17.8% volatile
119 Georgia 1.4% 2019 down 59.4% falling
120 Sri Lanka 1.4% 2018 down 23.7% falling
121 Belarus 1.3% 2018 up 22.7% rising
122 Slovenia 1.3% 2018 up 37.3% rising
123 Armenia 1.3% 2019 — volatile
124 Ukraine 1.2% 2019 down 67.1% falling
125 Montenegro 1.2% 2019 up 15.9% rising
126 Israel 1.1% 2018 up 7.3% rising
127 Denmark 1.0% 2018 down 2.3% rising
128 Lithuania 1.0% 2018 down 76.0% falling
129 Singapore 0.9% 2018 down 83.3% falling
130 Switzerland 0.9% 2018 down 27.0% falling
131 Maldives 0.9% 2019 down 96.9% volatile
132 France 0.8% 2018 down 47.3% falling
133 Serbia 0.8% 2019 up 43.1% rising
134 Cayman Islands 0.6% 2018 down 72.8% volatile
135 Kyrgyzstan 0.6% 2019 down 44.7% falling
136 Moldova 0.6% 2019 down 62.1% falling
137 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.6% 2019 down 34.4% rising
138 Seychelles 0.6% 2019 — volatile
139 San Marino 0.6% 2019 down 7.9% flat
140 Palestine 0.6% 2019 down 69.3% volatile
141 Malta 0.5% 2018 down 89.7% volatile
142 Sweden 0.4% 2018 — volatile
143 Croatia 0.4% 2018 down 11.0% volatile
144 Kazakhstan 0.4% 2019 down 69.2% falling
145 South Korea 0.3% 2018 down 40.2% falling
146 New Zealand 0.3% 2018 up 5.7% flat
147 Monaco 0.2% 2020 down 85.3% volatile
148 Ireland 0.2% 2018 — falling
149 Uzbekistan 0.1% 2019 down 83.6% falling
150 Tajikistan 0.0% 2017 down 71.6% volatile
151 Norway 0.0% 2018 down 100.0% volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary general education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, male (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
194 places, 2,217 data points, 1997–2020
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Percentage of pupils in each level of education (primary and lower secondary general education) who are at least 2 years above the intended age for their grade. The intended age for a given grade is the age at which pupils would enter the grade if they had started school at the official primary entrance age, had studied full-time and had progressed without repeating or skipping a grade. The value is calculated as the sum of enrolments across all grades in the given level of education which are 2 or more years older than the intended age for the given grade is expressed as a percentage of the total enrolment in the given level of education. A low value of this indicator will show that the majority of students start school on time and progress with minimum levels of grade repetition. Late school entry and significant grade repetition exacerbate over-age progression and should be discouraged as both are associated with lower levels of student learning achievement. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/