Compulsory education, duration in Somalia
Somalia: Compulsory education, duration was 8 years in 2025. ▬ Flat
Latest (2025)
8 years
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
156th
of 197 countries
All-time high
8 years
in 2021
All-time low
8 years
in 2021
Years of data
5
2021–2025
Compulsory education, duration in Somalia, 2021–2025
Source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Measured in years.
Analysis
Somalia recorded 8 years for compulsory education, duration in 2025. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over five years.
That places Somalia 156th out of 197 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Countries ranked near Somalia
- 156 Belize 8 years compare
- 156 Croatia 8 years compare
- 156 Eritrea 8 years compare
- 156 Ethiopia 8 years compare
- 156 India 8 years compare
- 156 Malawi 8 years compare
- 156 Micronesia (country) 8 years compare
- 156 Samoa 8 years compare
- 156 Serbia 8 years compare
- 156 South Sudan 8 years compare
- 156 Sudan 8 years compare
More education data for Somalia
- Duration of pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 50.8% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 46.6% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 10 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 20.9% (2023)
- Primary education, teachers 12,870 (2007)
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling 6.01 live births per woman (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 19.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is compulsory education, duration in Somalia?
- Compulsory education, duration in Somalia was 8 years in 2025, according to Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
- What is the highest compulsory education, duration recorded in Somalia?
- The highest recorded value was 8 years in 2021.
- What is the lowest compulsory education, duration recorded in Somalia?
- The lowest recorded value was 8 years in 2021.
- How does Somalia rank for compulsory education, duration?
- Somalia ranks 156th out of 197 countries with data for 2025.
- Where does this Somalia data come from?
- The figures come from Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), published as part of Compulsory education, duration (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Duration of compulsory education is the number of years that children are legally obliged to attend school.