Brazil vs Uruguay: Net attendance rate of primary school

Brazil

99.6%

in 2024

Uruguay

99.8%

in 2024

Brazil rank

2nd

Uruguay rank

1st

Net attendance rate of primary school over time

Brazil
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 99.8% against 99.6% in Brazil, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 15 shared years of data; in 2008 it was Uruguay ahead.

Brazil ranks 2nd and Uruguay ranks 1st of 36 countries.

Individual pages

Net attendance rate of primary school in Brazil
Net attendance rate of primary school in Uruguay
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Net attendance rate of 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: 36 places, 426 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total number of students of the official age group for primary education who are attending school at any level of education, expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population.