Statizoid

Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain

Spain: Official entrance age to lower secondary education was 12 years in 2025. ▲ Rising

Latest (2025)
12 years
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
30th
of 215 countries
All-time high
12 years
in 1996
All-time low
11 years
in 1970
Years of data
56
1970–2025

Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain, 1970–2025

02.557.51012.5197019972025

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.

Analysis

The most recent figure for official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain is 12 years, measured in 2025. That is the highest value across all 56 years on record.

That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.

Over the whole period, official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain peaked at 12 years in 1996 and was at its lowest, 11 years, in 1970.

Spain ranks 30th of 215 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 56 years of available data.

Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain, year by year

Year years Change
1970 11 years —
1971 11 years +0.0%
1972 11 years +0.0%
1973 11 years +0.0%
1974 11 years +0.0%
1975 11 years +0.0%
1976 11 years +0.0%
1977 11 years +0.0%
1978 11 years +0.0%
1979 11 years +0.0%
1980 11 years +0.0%
1981 11 years +0.0%
1982 11 years +0.0%
1983 11 years +0.0%
1984 11 years +0.0%
1985 11 years +0.0%
1986 11 years +0.0%
1987 11 years +0.0%
1988 11 years +0.0%
1989 11 years +0.0%
1990 11 years +0.0%
1991 11 years +0.0%
1992 11 years +0.0%
1993 11 years +0.0%
1994 11 years +0.0%
1995 11 years +0.0%
1996 12 years +9.1%
1997 12 years +0.0%
1998 12 years +0.0%
1999 12 years +0.0%
2000 12 years +0.0%
2001 12 years +0.0%
2002 12 years +0.0%
2003 12 years +0.0%
2004 12 years +0.0%
2005 12 years +0.0%
2006 12 years +0.0%
2007 12 years +0.0%
2008 12 years +0.0%
2009 12 years +0.0%
2010 12 years +0.0%
2011 12 years +0.0%
2012 12 years +0.0%
2013 12 years +0.0%
2014 12 years +0.0%
2015 12 years +0.0%
2016 12 years +0.0%
2017 12 years +0.0%
2018 12 years +0.0%
2019 12 years +0.0%
2020 12 years +0.0%
2021 12 years +0.0%
2022 12 years +0.0%
2023 12 years +0.0%
2024 12 years +0.0%
2025 12 years +0.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 11 years 11 years 11 years 10
1980s 11 years 11 years 11 years 10
1990s 11.4 years 11 years 12 years 10
2000s 12 years 12 years 12 years 10
2010s 12 years 12 years 12 years 10
2020s 12 years 12 years 12 years 6

Countries ranked near Spain

  1. 30 Aruba 12 years compare
  2. 30 Angola 12 years compare
  3. 30 Andorra 12 years compare
  4. 30 Argentina 12 years compare
  5. 30 American Samoa 12 years compare
  6. 30 Antigua and Barbuda 12 years compare
  7. 30 Australia 12 years compare
  8. 30 Burundi 12 years compare
  9. 30 Belgium 12 years compare
  10. 30 Benin 12 years compare
  11. 30 Burkina Faso 12 years compare
  12. 30 Bahrain 12 years compare
  13. 30 Bolivia 12 years compare
  14. 30 Brunei 12 years compare
  15. 30 Bhutan 12 years compare
  16. 30 Central African Republic 12 years compare
  17. 30 Canada 12 years compare
  18. 30 Switzerland 12 years compare
  19. 30 Chile 12 years compare
  20. 30 China 12 years compare
  21. 30 Cote d'Ivoire 12 years compare
  22. 30 Cameroon 12 years compare
  23. 30 Democratic Republic of Congo 12 years compare
  24. 30 Congo 12 years compare
  25. 30 Cape Verde 12 years compare
  26. 30 Costa Rica 12 years compare
  27. 30 Cuba 12 years compare
  28. 30 Curacao 12 years compare
  29. 30 Cyprus 12 years compare
  30. 30 Dominica 12 years compare
  31. 30 Dominican Republic 12 years compare
  32. 30 Ecuador 12 years compare
  33. 30 Egypt 12 years compare
  34. 30 Fiji 12 years compare
  35. 30 Micronesia (country) 12 years compare
  36. 30 Georgia 12 years compare
  37. 30 Ghana 12 years compare
  38. 30 Guinea-Bissau 12 years compare
  39. 30 Greece 12 years compare
  40. 30 Grenada 12 years compare
  41. 30 Guyana 12 years compare
  42. 30 Hong Kong 12 years compare
  43. 30 Honduras 12 years compare
  44. 30 Haiti 12 years compare
  45. 30 Iran 12 years compare
  46. 30 Iraq 12 years compare
  47. 30 Israel 12 years compare
  48. 30 Jamaica 12 years compare
  49. 30 Jordan 12 years compare
  50. 30 Japan 12 years compare
  51. 30 Kenya 12 years compare
  52. 30 Cambodia 12 years compare
  53. 30 Kiribati 12 years compare
  54. 30 Saint Kitts and Nevis 12 years compare
  55. 30 South Korea 12 years compare
  56. 30 Lebanon 12 years compare
  57. 30 Liberia 12 years compare
  58. 30 Libya 12 years compare
  59. 30 Saint Lucia 12 years compare
  60. 30 Liechtenstein 12 years compare
  61. 30 Luxembourg 12 years compare
  62. 30 Macao 12 years compare
  63. 30 Morocco 12 years compare
  64. 30 Maldives 12 years compare
  65. 30 Mexico 12 years compare
  66. 30 Marshall Islands 12 years compare
  67. 30 Mauritania 12 years compare
  68. 30 Malawi 12 years compare
  69. 30 Malaysia 12 years compare
  70. 30 Nigeria 12 years compare
  71. 30 Nicaragua 12 years compare
  72. 30 Netherlands 12 years compare
  73. 30 Nauru 12 years compare
  74. 30 Panama 12 years compare
  75. 30 Peru 12 years compare
  76. 30 Philippines 12 years compare
  77. 30 Palau 12 years compare
  78. 30 Puerto Rico 12 years compare
  79. 30 North Korea 12 years compare
  80. 30 Portugal 12 years compare
  81. 30 Paraguay 12 years compare
  82. 30 Qatar 12 years compare
  83. 30 Rwanda 12 years compare
  84. 30 Saudi Arabia 12 years compare
  85. 30 Sudan 12 years compare
  86. 30 Senegal 12 years compare
  87. 30 Singapore 12 years compare
  88. 30 Solomon Islands 12 years compare
  89. 30 Sierra Leone 12 years compare
  90. 30 South Sudan 12 years compare
  91. 30 Sao Tome and Principe 12 years compare
  92. 30 Suriname 12 years compare
  93. 30 Slovenia 12 years compare
  94. 30 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 12 years compare
  95. 30 Seychelles 12 years compare
  96. 30 Syria 12 years compare
  97. 30 Turks and Caicos Islands 12 years compare
  98. 30 Chad 12 years compare
  99. 30 Togo 12 years compare
  100. 30 Thailand 12 years compare
  101. 30 East Timor 12 years compare
  102. 30 Tonga 12 years compare
  103. 30 Trinidad and Tobago 12 years compare
  104. 30 Tunisia 12 years compare
  105. 30 Tuvalu 12 years compare
  106. 30 Uruguay 12 years compare
  107. 30 United States 12 years compare
  108. 30 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 12 years compare
  109. 30 Venezuela 12 years compare
  110. 30 British Virgin Islands 12 years compare
  111. 30 United States Virgin Islands 12 years compare
  112. 30 Vanuatu 12 years compare
  113. 30 Yemen 12 years compare

See the full ranking of 221 places →

More education data for Spain

All data for Spain →

Frequently asked questions

What is official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain?
Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain was 12 years in 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest official entrance age to lower secondary education recorded in Spain?
The highest recorded value was 12 years in 1996.
What is the lowest official entrance age to lower secondary education recorded in Spain?
The lowest recorded value was 11 years in 1970.
How does Spain rank for official entrance age to lower secondary education?
Spain ranks 30th out of 215 countries with data for 2025.
Is official entrance age to lower secondary education rising or falling in Spain?
Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Spain data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Official entrance age to lower secondary education (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 56 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 28 August 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/stat/official-entrance-age-to-lower-secondary-education-years/spain/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/stat/official-entrance-age-to-lower-secondary-education-years/spain/">Official entrance age to lower secondary education in Spain</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Official entrance age to lower secondary education (years)
Unit
years
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
221 places, 11,823 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release