Lesotho vs Samoa: Share of children who are not in pre-primary school

Lesotho

69.5%

in 2020

Samoa

70.2%

in 2024

Lesotho rank

15th

Samoa rank

14th

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

Lesotho
Samoa

How they compare

Samoa currently reports 70.2% against 69.5% in Lesotho, a difference of 0.7%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 7 shared years of data; in 2014 it was Samoa ahead.

Lesotho ranks 15th and Samoa ranks 14th of 179 countries.

Individual pages

Share of children who are not in pre-primary school in Lesotho
Share of children who are not in pre-primary school in Samoa
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.