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Percentage of pupils enrolled in primary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, male (%) 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
152
Highest
71.6%
Liberia
Lowest
0.0%
San Marino
Median
3.8%
Years covered
24
1997–2020
Data points
2,314

What the numbers show

Percentage of pupils enrolled in primary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, male (%) is currently reported for 152 countries. The highest value is 71.6% in Liberia; the lowest is 0.0% in San Marino.

The median across all reporting countries is 3.8%, and the mean is 9.9%.

Over the past decade 25 countries rose and 118 fell. The largest increase was in Jordan (up 365.4%), 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 71.6% 2017 down 15.9% falling
2 Kenya 46.5% 2009 down 13.7% falling
3 Eswatini 46.3% 2018 down 25.8% falling
4 Madagascar 45.6% 2019 — falling
5 Equatorial Guinea 41.4% 2015 down 17.1% falling
6 Nicaragua 40.9% 2010 up 57.1% rising
7 Mozambique 40.4% 2019 down 20.9% falling
8 Central African Republic 39.5% 2012 down 18.0% falling
9 Malawi 37.3% 2019 down 18.4% falling
10 Lesotho 36.8% 2017 down 38.3% falling
11 Eritrea 36.7% 2018 up 57.0% falling
12 Uganda 35.0% 2017 down 19.0% falling
13 Mauritania 34.7% 2019 down 24.6% falling
14 Nepal 33.1% 2019 down 6.0% flat
15 Ghana 32.0% 2018 down 30.1% falling
16 Burundi 31.7% 2019 down 39.2% falling
17 Namibia 31.3% 2018 down 5.7% flat
18 Chad 30.4% 2019 — falling
19 Gambia 30.0% 2019 up 29.6% rising
20 Zambia 28.5% 2017 down 26.6% flat
21 Comoros 28.2% 2017 down 19.3% falling
22 Timor-Leste 25.0% 2019 down 37.9% falling
23 Botswana 24.9% 2013 down 43.2% falling
24 Ethiopia 23.8% 2015 down 46.0% falling
25 Burkina Faso 23.3% 2019 up 74.2% rising
26 Togo 22.7% 2019 down 9.4% falling
27 Suriname 21.9% 2019 down 28.9% falling
28 Cambodia 20.6% 2019 down 42.7% falling
29 Sao Tome and Principe 17.4% 2017 down 61.1% falling
30 Guatemala 16.8% 2019 down 40.2% falling
31 Guinea 16.8% 2016 down 39.9% falling
32 Morocco 16.6% 2019 down 30.5% falling
33 Sierra Leone 16.3% 2017 down 35.4% falling
34 El Salvador 16.0% 2018 down 37.6% falling
35 Colombia 15.8% 2018 down 39.1% falling
36 Cameroon 15.3% 2019 down 36.5% falling
37 Bhutan 15.1% 2017 down 65.9% falling
38 Dominican Republic 14.7% 2019 down 22.1% falling
39 Benin 13.0% 2019 down 19.5% falling
40 Cape Verde 12.3% 2018 down 43.6% falling
41 South Africa 11.4% 2018 down 30.3% falling
42 Côte d'Ivoire 11.4% 2019 down 63.5% flat
43 Mali 11.0% 2018 up 6.4% falling
44 Samoa 10.5% 2019 down 14.1% rising
45 Honduras 10.4% 2019 down 62.1% falling
46 Aruba 10.4% 2014 down 38.5% falling
47 Philippines 10.1% 2018 — falling
48 Lebanon 10.0% 2019 down 5.1% falling
49 Trinidad and Tobago 9.9% 2010 up 18.7% rising
50 Lao People's Democratic Republic 9.9% 2019 down 76.2% falling
51 Belize 9.7% 2019 down 28.4% falling
52 Tanzania, United Republic of 9.6% 2016 down 44.2% volatile
53 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 9.5% 2017 down 45.5% falling
54 Yemen 9.4% 2016 down 54.7% falling
55 Brazil 9.1% 2018 down 30.6% falling
56 Panama 9.0% 2017 down 37.4% falling
57 Myanmar 8.7% 2010 down 28.9% falling
58 Tunisia 7.6% 2018 up 31.1% rising
59 Dominica 7.2% 2016 up 299.8% rising
60 Djibouti 7.2% 2020 down 33.8% falling
61 Bahamas 7.2% 2018 down 26.3% falling
62 British Virgin Islands 7.1% 2018 down 29.3% falling
63 Algeria 6.8% 2019 down 43.3% falling
64 Senegal 6.4% 2019 down 69.9% falling
65 Costa Rica 5.9% 2019 down 47.1% falling
66 Saudi Arabia 5.9% 2019 down 54.2% falling
67 Chile 5.7% 2018 down 24.2% falling
68 India 5.5% 2019 up 20.0% flat
69 Austria 5.4% 2018 up 26.3% rising
70 Syrian Arab Republic 5.2% 2013 down 40.7% falling
71 Niger 5.0% 2019 down 11.5% falling
72 Czechia 4.4% 2018 up 1.3% flat
73 Peru 4.4% 2019 down 57.4% falling
74 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 4.2% 2018 down 78.7% falling
75 Uruguay 3.9% 2018 down 55.2% falling
76 Turks and Caicos Islands 3.9% 2018 down 19.2% falling
77 United States of America 3.7% 2018 down 3.7% falling
78 Ecuador 3.4% 2018 down 76.0% falling
79 Argentina 3.2% 2017 down 63.2% falling
80 Iran, Islamic Republic of 3.1% 2017 down 22.9% volatile
81 Puerto Rico 2.8% 2018 down 60.4% falling
82 Fiji 2.6% 2016 down 59.3% falling
83 Albania 2.6% 2019 down 25.4% falling
84 Luxembourg 2.5% 2018 up 29.2% rising
85 Macau, China 2.3% 2019 down 78.7% volatile
86 Azerbaijan 2.3% 2019 down 21.5% falling
87 Kuwait 2.3% 2019 up 35.7% falling
88 Antigua and Barbuda 2.1% 2018 down 63.8% falling
89 Andorra 1.9% 2019 down 46.5% falling
90 Hong Kong, China 1.8% 2019 down 24.6% volatile
91 Saint Lucia 1.8% 2019 up 13.6% falling
92 United Arab Emirates 1.8% 2015 down 53.7% falling
93 Egypt 1.8% 2019 down 34.7% falling
94 Hungary 1.8% 2018 down 6.1% falling
95 Grenada 1.7% 2018 down 61.9% falling
96 Naoero 1.7% 2019 — volatile
97 Bulgaria 1.5% 2018 down 35.2% falling
98 Montenegro 1.5% 2019 up 67.1% rising
99 Brunei Darussalam 1.5% 2019 down 12.3% falling
100 Greece 1.5% 2018 up 23.0% rising
101 Mexico 1.4% 2018 down 67.3% volatile
102 Latvia 1.4% 2018 down 52.3% falling
103 Belarus 1.4% 2018 up 6.9% rising
104 Ukraine 1.3% 2019 down 21.6% falling
105 Qatar 1.3% 2019 down 37.1% falling
106 North Macedonia 1.3% 2018 up 58.5% rising
107 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.2% 2018 down 67.3% volatile
108 Belgium 1.2% 2018 down 40.1% falling
109 Bahrain 1.1% 2019 down 59.0% volatile
110 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.0% 2019 down 1.7% rising
111 Jordan 1.0% 2019 up 365.4% volatile
112 Mauritius 1.0% 2019 down 33.5% falling
113 Estonia 0.9% 2018 up 116.7% rising
114 Slovenia 0.9% 2018 up 12.3% rising
115 Georgia 0.8% 2019 down 65.2% falling
116 Jamaica 0.7% 2019 down 41.6% falling
117 Mongolia 0.7% 2018 down 83.4% volatile
118 Armenia 0.7% 2019 — volatile
119 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.7% 2016 up 16.9% volatile
120 Serbia 0.6% 2019 up 19.4% rising
121 Sri Lanka 0.5% 2018 down 32.1% falling
122 Cuba 0.5% 2019 up 22.5% volatile
123 Guyana 0.5% 2012 — falling
124 Seychelles 0.5% 2019 — volatile
125 Israel 0.5% 2018 down 28.2% falling
126 Kyrgyzstan 0.4% 2019 down 48.2% flat
127 Italy 0.4% 2018 down 24.7% falling
128 Cyprus 0.4% 2018 down 59.7% falling
129 Denmark 0.4% 2018 down 22.4% falling
130 Palestine, State of 0.4% 2019 down 34.2% volatile
131 Republic of Moldova 0.3% 2019 down 69.6% volatile
132 Singapore 0.3% 2018 down 82.0% volatile
133 Lithuania 0.3% 2018 down 11.5% falling
134 Kazakhstan 0.3% 2019 down 38.9% volatile
135 Malta 0.3% 2018 up 252.7% rising
136 Cayman Islands 0.3% 2018 down 94.7% volatile
137 Oman 0.3% 2019 down 80.9% volatile
138 Croatia 0.3% 2018 down 50.8% falling
139 Tonga 0.2% 2015 down 93.3% volatile
140 Spain 0.2% 2018 down 7.3% falling
141 Barbados 0.2% 2019 down 74.3% volatile
142 Australia 0.2% 2018 down 29.0% falling
143 New Zealand 0.2% 2018 down 47.1% falling
144 Switzerland 0.2% 2018 down 34.1% falling
145 Sweden 0.1% 2018 — volatile
146 Maldives 0.1% 2019 down 99.0% volatile
147 Tajikistan 0.0% 2017 down 66.3% volatile
148 Ireland 0.0% 2018 down 18.9% falling
149 Uzbekistan 0.0% 2019 down 80.8% falling
150 Monaco 0.0% 2020 down 100.0% volatile
150 Malaysia 0.0% 2017 — volatile
150 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, male (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
193 places, 2,314 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/