Barbados vs Tonga: Share of children who are not in pre-primary school

Barbados

21.8%

in 2024

Tonga

22.3%

in 2024

Barbados rank

69th

Tonga rank

67th

Share of children who are not in pre-primary school over time

Barbados
Tonga

How they compare

Tonga currently reports 22.3% against 21.8% in Barbados, a difference of 0.5%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 6 shared years of data; in 1999 it was Tonga ahead.

Barbados ranks 69th and Tonga ranks 67th of 179 countries.

Individual pages

Share of children who are not in pre-primary school in Barbados
Share of children who are not in pre-primary school in Tonga
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Share of children who are not in pre-primary school
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 179 places, 2,923 data points, 1998–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Children one year before the official primary entry age (typically age 5) not enrolled in pre-primary education, expressed as a percentage of all children in that age group.