Population of compulsory school age, female (number) by country

Population of female children within the age span that children are legally obliged to attend school.

Countries reporting

184

Highest

95.13 million number

India

Lowest

996 number

Tuvalu

Median

574,802 number

Years covered

1975–2020

Data points

4,849

What the numbers show

Population of compulsory school age, female (number) is currently reported for 184 countries. The highest value is 95.13 million number in India; the lowest is 996 number in Tuvalu.

The median across all reporting countries is 574,802 number, and the mean is 3.00 million number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 95,508.

Over the past decade 129 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in Tonga (up 137.0%), and the largest decrease in Puerto Rico (down 32.4%).

Population of compulsory school age, female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	India	95.13 million number	2019	up 0.9%	flat
2	China	70.26 million number	2019	down 5.5%	falling
3	Pakistan	27.09 million number	2019	up 10.6%	rising
4	United States	24.33 million number	2018	down 0.0%	flat
5	Nigeria	22.98 million number	2019	up 33.8%	rising
6	Indonesia	20.30 million number	2019	up 1.7%	flat
7	Mexico	15.36 million number	2019	up 26.2%	rising
8	Philippines	13.74 million number	2019	up 35.9%	rising
9	Brazil	13.01 million number	2011	down 2.3%	flat
10	Egypt	11.15 million number	2019	up 50.4%	rising
11	Ethiopia	10.96 million number	2019	up 18.3%	rising
12	Russia	8.56 million number	2020	up 44.6%	falling
13	Turkey	7.95 million number	2019	up 54.9%	rising
14	Kenya	7.84 million number	2019	up 77.0%	rising
15	Democratic Republic of Congo	7.28 million number	2019	up 43.6%	rising
16	Bangladesh	7.24 million number	2019	down 8.0%	flat
17	Vietnam	6.79 million number	2019	up 7.6%	rising
18	Iran	5.45 million number	2019	up 19.1%	rising
19	Tanzania	5.31 million number	2019	up 35.2%	rising
20	Argentina	4.98 million number	2019	up 10.5%	rising
21	South Africa	4.87 million number	2019	up 12.9%	flat
22	Germany	4.84 million number	2020	down 4.1%	falling
23	Colombia	4.57 million number	2019	up 9.0%	rising
24	Uganda	4.54 million number	2019	up 36.6%	rising
25	Afghanistan	4.54 million number	2019	up 29.5%	rising
26	United Kingdom	4.26 million number	2020	up 9.1%	flat
27	Sudan	4.25 million number	2019	up 57.0%	rising
28	France	4.07 million number	2019	up 5.5%	rising
29	Venezuela	3.87 million number	2016	up 2.1%	rising
30	Ghana	3.86 million number	2019	up 19.2%	rising
31	Algeria	3.80 million number	2020	up 26.4%	falling
32	Peru	3.74 million number	2019	up 10.8%	rising
33	Thailand	3.59 million number	2019	down 11.6%	falling
34	Italy	3.29 million number	2020	up 1.8%	rising
35	Uzbekistan	3.29 million number	2020	up 5.3%	flat
36	Cote d'Ivoire	3.19 million number	2019	up 22.0%	rising
37	Yemen	3.15 million number	2019	up 17.3%	rising
38	Angola	2.85 million number	2019	up 45.5%	rising
39	Nepal	2.83 million number	2019	—	falling
40	Iraq	2.78 million number	2019	up 22.7%	rising
41	Morocco	2.76 million number	2019	up 3.2%	rising
42	Burkina Faso	2.64 million number	2019	up 35.1%	rising
43	Saudi Arabia	2.38 million number	2019	up 2.5%	flat
44	Mali	2.36 million number	2019	up 44.4%	rising
45	Spain	2.33 million number	2020	up 9.6%	rising
46	Ecuador	2.31 million number	2019	up 53.2%	rising
47	Myanmar	2.31 million number	2019	down 10.9%	flat
48	Senegal	2.21 million number	2019	up 31.2%	rising
49	Ukraine	2.20 million number	2014	down 28.8%	falling
50	Chad	2.17 million number	2019	up 38.1%	rising
51	North Korea	2.07 million number	2019	down 2.9%	falling
52	Cameroon	2.06 million number	2019	up 31.8%	rising
53	Malawi	2.05 million number	2019	up 28.9%	rising
54	South Korea	2.00 million number	2019	down 23.0%	flat
55	Canada	1.91 million number	2019	up 0.4%	falling
56	Poland	1.88 million number	2020	down 5.2%	falling
57	Sri Lanka	1.87 million number	2019	up 26.2%	rising
58	Zambia	1.73 million number	2019	up 32.3%	rising
59	Madagascar	1.72 million number	2019	up 18.9%	rising
60	Bolivia	1.60 million number	2019	up 4.8%	rising
61	Syria	1.55 million number	2019	down 28.5%	rising
62	Australia	1.55 million number	2019	up 16.0%	rising
63	Chile	1.47 million number	2019	down 7.1%	rising
64	Kazakhstan	1.46 million number	2020	up 40.8%	falling
65	Zimbabwe	1.43 million number	2019	up 25.5%	rising
66	Malaysia	1.43 million number	2019	down 10.2%	falling
67	Dominican Republic	1.42 million number	2019	up 62.3%	rising
68	Netherlands	1.20 million number	2020	down 5.5%	flat
69	Honduras	1.20 million number	2019	up 30.6%	rising
70	South Sudan	1.15 million number	2019	up 22.1%	rising
71	Jordan	1.12 million number	2019	up 49.7%	rising
72	Israel	1.08 million number	2019	up 42.5%	rising
73	Guinea	1.02 million number	2019	up 21.9%	rising
74	Romania	1.02 million number	2020	down 4.5%	falling
75	Togo	1.01 million number	2019	up 32.0%	rising
76	Rwanda	956,737 number	2019	up 25.8%	rising
77	Benin	920,984 number	2019	up 28.6%	rising
78	Sierra Leone	894,442 number	2019	up 23.1%	rising
79	Paraguay	856,725 number	2019	up 40.6%	rising
80	El Salvador	848,176 number	2019	up 36.3%	rising
81	Tajikistan	825,169 number	2019	up 9.0%	flat
82	Belgium	768,247 number	2020	up 5.8%	rising
83	Tunisia	750,766 number	2019	up 3.4%	falling
84	Haiti	721,936 number	2019	up 4.2%	rising
85	Azerbaijan	680,830 number	2019	up 12.4%	falling
86	Laos	667,786 number	2019	up 80.3%	rising
87	Congo	667,464 number	2019	up 37.0%	rising
88	Central African Republic	656,997 number	2019	up 17.3%	rising
89	Turkmenistan	644,031 number	2020	up 30.8%	rising
90	Kyrgyzstan	613,313 number	2020	up 32.6%	rising
91	Hungary	594,686 number	2020	down 13.5%	falling
92	Portugal	575,681 number	2020	down 11.5%	rising
93	Palestine	573,924 number	2019	up 9.7%	rising
94	Sweden	565,658 number	2020	up 26.6%	flat
95	Libya	543,924 number	2019	up 7.9%	falling
96	Austria	538,087 number	2020	up 41.8%	rising
97	Cuba	536,315 number	2019	down 15.0%	falling
98	Greece	501,928 number	2020	down 6.2%	flat
99	Czechia	494,620 number	2020	up 22.0%	flat
100	Mauritania	479,092 number	2019	up 29.3%	rising
101	Costa Rica	453,179 number	2019	up 10.3%	flat
102	Switzerland	446,822 number	2020	up 3.3%	flat
103	Nicaragua	445,939 number	2019	up 2.2%	rising
104	Belarus	442,080 number	2019	up 8.2%	falling
105	Panama	404,242 number	2019	up 8.6%	rising
106	Eritrea	382,985 number	2019	up 45.5%	rising
107	Liberia	379,089 number	2019	up 30.1%	rising
108	Bulgaria	378,417 number	2019	up 30.9%	falling
109	Ireland	336,584 number	2019	up 16.9%	rising
110	Uruguay	325,845 number	2019	down 8.2%	rising
111	Denmark	317,835 number	2020	up 5.7%	rising
112	Mongolia	315,762 number	2019	up 7.3%	rising
113	Puerto Rico	310,736 number	2013	down 32.4%	falling
114	Norway	310,240 number	2020	up 2.5%	rising
115	New Zealand	307,900 number	2019	up 6.5%	flat
116	Finland	300,020 number	2020	up 12.9%	flat
117	Oman	295,390 number	2019	—	rising
118	United Arab Emirates	281,271 number	2019	up 74.2%	rising
119	Slovakia	273,122 number	2020	down 3.3%	falling
120	Serbia	262,202 number	2019	down 11.4%	falling
121	Gambia	261,483 number	2019	up 29.2%	rising
122	Kuwait	239,800 number	2019	up 35.8%	rising
124	Gabon	226,304 number	2019	up 28.2%	rising
125	Georgia	222,866 number	2020	up 7.4%	rising
126	Guinea-Bissau	218,758 number	2019	up 29.4%	rising
127	Armenia	216,636 number	2020	up 14.9%	falling
128	Namibia	203,184 number	2019	up 13.7%	rising
129	Moldova	201,348 number	2019	up 1.6%	falling
130	Croatia	161,647 number	2019	down 13.3%	falling
131	Lesotho	152,541 number	2019	down 2.4%	flat
132	North Macedonia	147,275 number	2019	up 22.9%	rising
133	Albania	140,926 number	2019	down 31.0%	falling
134	East Timor	136,249 number	2019	up 6.1%	rising
135	Jamaica	134,617 number	2019	down 19.9%	falling
136	Lithuania	130,302 number	2019	down 28.4%	falling
137	Latvia	105,773 number	2019	down 0.5%	falling
138	Qatar	105,722 number	2019	up 91.5%	rising
139	Eswatini	102,522 number	2019	up 6.2%	rising
140	Slovenia	91,828 number	2020	up 15.5%	falling
141	Equatorial Guinea	87,241 number	2019	up 50.2%	rising
142	Mauritius	84,922 number	2019	down 20.4%	rising
143	Bahrain	84,143 number	2019	up 24.1%	rising
145	Trinidad and Tobago	67,032 number	2019	up 29.7%	falling
146	Estonia	64,512 number	2020	up 18.8%	falling
147	Comoros	62,641 number	2019	up 22.4%	rising
148	Cape Verde	50,854 number	2019	up 57.5%	rising
149	Cyprus	46,408 number	2019	up 2.7%	falling
150	Guyana	41,632 number	2019	down 20.2%	falling
151	Luxembourg	37,617 number	2020	up 7.9%	rising
152	Bahamas	36,713 number	2019	down 3.3%	rising
153	Montenegro	33,494 number	2019	down 5.6%	falling
154	Suriname	29,959 number	2019	up 0.1%	flat
155	Belize	29,933 number	2019	down 1.9%	rising
156	Brunei	28,204 number	2019	down 7.4%	falling
157	Macao	24,719 number	2019	down 3.4%	falling
158	Maldives	23,996 number	2019	up 21.4%	falling
159	Iceland	22,289 number	2020	up 3.9%	flat
160	Malta	21,797 number	2019	down 12.5%	falling
161	Barbados	18,842 number	2019	down 8.7%	falling
162	Samoa	18,556 number	2019	up 4.7%	rising
163	Sao Tome and Principe	17,702 number	2019	up 27.0%	rising
164	Tonga	17,275 number	2019	up 137.0%	rising
165	Curacao	14,573 number	2019	down 1.7%	flat
166	Kiribati	11,855 number	2019	up 18.5%	rising
167	Saint Lucia	11,190 number	2019	down 30.4%	falling
168	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10,106 number	2019	down 15.5%	falling
169	Grenada	9,822 number	2019	down 10.9%	falling
170	Marshall Islands	9,570 number	2019	up 57.4%	rising
171	Aruba	8,422 number	2019	down 9.4%	falling
172	Antigua and Barbuda	7,542 number	2019	down 5.5%	falling
173	Seychelles	7,256 number	2019	up 9.1%	falling
174	Dominica	5,369 number	2019	down 32.0%	falling
175	Cayman Islands	4,709 number	2019	up 17.8%	rising
176	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4,323 number	2019	down 11.0%	falling
177	Bermuda	4,235 number	2019	down 17.1%	falling
178	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	3,590 number	2019	down 2.6%	flat
179	Turks and Caicos Islands	3,474 number	2019	up 5.8%	rising
180	Gibraltar	2,223 number	2019	down 5.2%	rising
181	British Virgin Islands	2,186 number	2019	down 5.9%	rising
182	Nauru	1,650 number	2019	up 52.6%	rising
183	Liechtenstein	1,649 number	2019	down 9.1%	falling
184	San Marino	1,466 number	2019	up 5.4%	rising
185	Palau	1,383 number	2019	down 18.3%	falling
186	Tuvalu	996 number	2019	up 14.9%	rising

Regions and income groups

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

World 561.36 million number
IDA & IBRD total 491.18 million number
Low & middle income 488.94 million number
Middle income 431.18 million number
IBRD only 336.53 million number
Early-demographic dividend 269.58 million number
Lower middle income 243.55 million number
Upper middle income 187.63 million number
IDA total 155.17 million number
South Asia 138.73 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 138.73 million number
Late-demographic dividend 135.44 million number

About this data

Indicator: Population of compulsory school age, female (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 231 places, 4,849 data points, 1975–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population of female children within the age span that children are legally obliged to attend school.