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

Percentage of pupils in primary 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...

Countries reporting
151
Highest
71.3%
Liberia
Lowest
0.0%
San Marino
Median
2.7%
Years covered
24
1997–2020
Data points
2,312

What the numbers show

Percentage of pupils enrolled in primary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, female (%) is currently reported for 151 countries. The highest value is 71.3% in Liberia; the lowest is 0.0% in San Marino.

The median across all reporting countries is 2.7%, and the mean is 8.4%.

Over the past decade 29 countries rose and 114 fell. The largest increase was in Dominica (up 631.7%), and the largest decrease in Monaco (down 100.0%).

Percentage of pupils enrolled in primary education who are at least 2: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Liberia 71.3% 2017 down 15.6% falling
2 Mauritania 43.9% 2019 down 8.1% falling
3 Madagascar 41.8% 2019 — falling
4 Kenya 41.7% 2009 down 14.1% falling
5 Nepal 38.6% 2019 up 2.2% rising
6 Central African Republic 36.5% 2012 down 18.3% falling
7 Eswatini 36.0% 2018 down 28.1% falling
8 Equatorial Guinea 36.0% 2015 down 39.6% falling
9 Mozambique 35.9% 2019 down 22.6% falling
10 Malawi 35.4% 2019 down 18.9% falling
11 Nicaragua 34.9% 2010 up 52.6% rising
12 Uganda 32.9% 2017 down 19.3% falling
13 Eritrea 30.9% 2018 up 71.8% falling
14 Ghana 30.8% 2018 down 30.1% falling
15 Chad 29.1% 2019 — falling
16 Gambia 28.3% 2019 up 30.4% rising
17 Burundi 26.6% 2019 down 44.3% falling
18 Zambia 26.2% 2017 down 25.2% rising
19 Comoros 25.8% 2017 down 8.6% falling
20 Lesotho 23.5% 2017 down 51.4% falling
21 Togo 22.5% 2019 down 6.3% falling
22 Burkina Faso 22.3% 2019 up 85.5% rising
23 Namibia 20.8% 2018 down 12.4% falling
24 Ethiopia 20.3% 2015 down 48.2% falling
25 Timor-Leste 18.2% 2019 down 48.2% falling
26 Sierra Leone 16.7% 2017 down 34.2% falling
27 Cambodia 15.9% 2019 down 51.7% falling
28 Botswana 15.8% 2013 down 51.5% falling
29 Guinea 15.0% 2016 down 38.2% falling
30 Cameroon 14.1% 2019 down 36.0% falling
31 Suriname 13.3% 2019 down 37.8% falling
32 Guatemala 12.6% 2019 down 49.1% falling
33 Bhutan 12.6% 2017 down 69.4% falling
34 Sao Tome and Principe 12.0% 2017 down 70.0% falling
35 Côte d'Ivoire 11.4% 2019 down 61.5% flat
36 Benin 11.2% 2019 down 22.2% falling
37 El Salvador 10.7% 2018 down 46.1% falling
38 Morocco 10.6% 2019 down 40.2% falling
39 Colombia 10.6% 2018 down 56.1% falling
40 Mali 10.4% 2018 up 7.5% falling
41 Yemen 9.5% 2016 down 50.7% falling
42 Myanmar 8.6% 2010 down 29.4% falling
43 Samoa 8.3% 2019 down 9.1% rising
44 Dominican Republic 8.3% 2019 down 33.0% falling
45 Honduras 7.9% 2019 down 64.1% falling
46 Lao People's Democratic Republic 7.7% 2019 down 78.4% falling
47 Tanzania, United Republic of 7.7% 2016 down 48.2% volatile
48 Aruba 7.6% 2014 down 36.0% falling
49 Djibouti 7.3% 2020 down 33.9% falling
50 Lebanon 6.9% 2019 down 21.7% falling
51 Panama 6.8% 2017 down 36.7% falling
52 Cape Verde 6.5% 2018 down 55.6% falling
53 Belize 6.4% 2019 down 34.6% falling
54 Senegal 6.2% 2019 down 70.8% falling
55 Philippines 6.1% 2018 — falling
56 Trinidad and Tobago 5.9% 2010 up 3.7% rising
57 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 5.8% 2017 down 53.4% falling
58 Saudi Arabia 5.5% 2019 down 54.9% falling
59 Brazil 5.2% 2018 down 33.5% falling
60 South Africa 5.1% 2018 down 49.9% falling
61 India 4.8% 2019 up 3.3% falling
62 Niger 4.8% 2019 down 9.1% falling
63 Syrian Arab Republic 4.5% 2013 down 41.8% falling
64 Costa Rica 4.2% 2019 down 47.2% falling
65 Bahamas 4.1% 2018 down 32.1% falling
66 Tunisia 4.1% 2018 up 6.3% rising
67 Austria 4.0% 2018 up 33.8% rising
68 Peru 3.6% 2019 down 60.9% falling
69 Turks and Caicos Islands 3.5% 2018 up 5.3% falling
70 United States of America 3.4% 2018 up 18.4% rising
71 Algeria 3.3% 2019 down 54.0% falling
72 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 3.1% 2018 down 82.8% falling
73 Chile 3.1% 2018 down 29.9% falling
74 Dominica 3.0% 2016 up 631.7% volatile
75 Argentina 2.9% 2017 down 66.5% falling
76 Ecuador 2.7% 2018 down 76.7% falling
77 Kuwait 2.7% 2019 up 94.9% volatile
78 Czechia 2.6% 2018 down 0.2% flat
79 Uruguay 2.5% 2018 down 57.1% falling
80 British Virgin Islands 2.5% 2018 down 20.5% falling
81 Azerbaijan 2.4% 2019 down 21.4% falling
82 Iran, Islamic Republic of 2.3% 2017 down 23.4% volatile
83 Grenada 2.2% 2018 up 4.7% falling
84 Albania 2.0% 2019 down 27.3% falling
85 Luxembourg 2.0% 2018 up 25.6% rising
86 Andorra 1.9% 2019 down 13.3% falling
87 Fiji 1.8% 2016 down 58.4% falling
88 Puerto Rico 1.5% 2018 down 59.3% falling
89 Naoero 1.4% 2019 — volatile
90 Hong Kong, China 1.4% 2019 down 25.9% volatile
91 United Arab Emirates 1.4% 2015 down 50.8% falling
92 Belarus 1.4% 2018 up 14.7% rising
93 Ukraine 1.3% 2019 down 21.2% falling
94 Greece 1.3% 2018 up 22.8% rising
95 North Macedonia 1.2% 2018 up 90.9% rising
96 Antigua and Barbuda 1.2% 2018 down 58.8% volatile
97 Hungary 1.1% 2018 down 3.9% flat
98 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.1% 2018 down 18.8% volatile
99 Macau, China 1.0% 2019 down 82.4% volatile
100 Belgium 1.0% 2018 down 40.8% falling
101 Bahrain 1.0% 2019 down 59.8% falling
102 Montenegro 1.0% 2019 up 80.5% rising
103 Mexico 1.0% 2018 down 63.8% volatile
104 Bulgaria 0.9% 2018 down 31.1% falling
105 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.8% 2019 down 2.5% rising
106 Jordan 0.8% 2019 up 24.7% flat
107 Brunei Darussalam 0.8% 2019 down 26.4% falling
108 Mauritius 0.7% 2019 down 40.4% falling
109 Armenia 0.7% 2019 — volatile
110 Latvia 0.7% 2018 down 51.6% falling
111 Qatar 0.7% 2019 down 60.5% falling
112 Georgia 0.6% 2019 down 69.1% falling
113 Saint Lucia 0.6% 2019 up 8.9% falling
114 Sri Lanka 0.6% 2018 up 0.9% flat
115 Slovenia 0.6% 2018 down 1.4% flat
116 Serbia 0.5% 2019 up 24.6% rising
117 Jamaica 0.5% 2019 down 25.0% falling
118 Mongolia 0.5% 2018 down 87.2% volatile
119 Estonia 0.5% 2018 up 207.0% rising
120 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.4% 2016 up 23.6% volatile
121 Lithuania 0.4% 2018 down 3.9% falling
122 Seychelles 0.3% 2019 up 143.2% volatile
123 Kyrgyzstan 0.3% 2019 down 50.0% flat
124 Palestine, State of 0.3% 2019 down 32.3% volatile
125 Italy 0.3% 2018 down 22.4% falling
126 Guyana 0.3% 2012 — falling
127 Kazakhstan 0.3% 2019 down 26.7% volatile
128 Israel 0.3% 2018 down 34.3% falling
129 Oman 0.2% 2019 down 81.6% volatile
130 Cyprus 0.2% 2018 down 62.1% falling
131 Denmark 0.2% 2018 down 21.3% falling
132 Malta 0.2% 2018 up 124.8% rising
133 Republic of Moldova 0.2% 2019 down 71.0% volatile
134 Singapore 0.2% 2018 down 87.5% volatile
135 Cuba 0.2% 2019 up 19.7% volatile
136 Croatia 0.2% 2018 down 57.3% falling
137 Tonga 0.2% 2015 down 97.4% volatile
138 Spain 0.2% 2018 down 10.9% falling
139 New Zealand 0.2% 2018 down 48.6% falling
140 Cayman Islands 0.1% 2018 down 95.9% volatile
141 Barbados 0.1% 2019 down 67.2% volatile
142 Australia 0.1% 2018 down 26.1% falling
143 Switzerland 0.1% 2018 down 34.8% falling
144 Maldives 0.1% 2019 down 97.5% volatile
145 Sweden 0.1% 2018 — volatile
146 Uzbekistan 0.0% 2019 down 83.2% falling
147 Ireland 0.0% 2018 down 33.9% falling
148 Tajikistan 0.0% 2017 down 70.5% volatile
149 Monaco 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile
149 Malaysia 0.0% 2017 — volatile
149 San Marino 0.0% 2019 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 primary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, female (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
192 places, 2,312 data points, 1997–2020
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Percentage of pupils in primary 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. 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/