School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male (number) by country

Name: School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Male population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to post-secondary non-tertiary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.

Countries reporting

164

Highest

26.34 million number

India

Lowest

96 number

Naoero

Median

67,134 number

Years covered

1970–2020

Data points

4,244

What the numbers show

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male (number) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 26.34 million number in India; the lowest is 96 number in Naoero.

The median across all reporting countries is 67,134 number, and the mean is 518,533 number.

Over the past decade 78 countries rose and 84 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritania (up 146.7%), and the largest decrease in Belarus (down 79.0%).

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	India	26.34 million number	2019	up 6.7%	rising
2	China	9.01 million number	2019	down 29.6%	falling
3	Nigeria	3.93 million number	2019	up 30.5%	rising
4	Bangladesh	3.18 million number	2019	down 47.9%	falling
5	Pakistan	2.25 million number	2019	up 14.9%	rising
6	United States of America	2.17 million number	2018	down 3.8%	rising
7	Philippines	2.12 million number	2019	up 8.9%	rising
8	Brazil	1.83 million number	2017	—	flat
9	Egypt	1.74 million number	2019	up 0.5%	rising
10	Germany	1.39 million number	2020	down 4.1%	flat
11	Iran, Islamic Republic of	1.37 million number	2012	down 24.8%	falling
12	Ethiopia	1.23 million number	2019	up 51.1%	rising
13	Algeria	1.18 million number	2006	up 10.1%	rising
14	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1.15 million number	2008	up 16.9%	rising
15	Kenya	1.13 million number	2019	up 31.9%	rising
16	Tanzania, United Republic of	1.07 million number	2019	up 22.0%	rising
17	Myanmar	1.02 million number	2019	up 9.3%	rising
18	South Africa	976,471 number	2019	down 9.4%	rising
19	Uganda	907,138 number	2019	up 47.1%	rising
20	Colombia	882,285 number	2019	up 0.1%	rising
21	France	866,998 number	2019	up 2.5%	flat
22	Afghanistan	859,819 number	2019	up 55.6%	rising
23	Iraq	803,980 number	2019	up 34.5%	rising
24	Russian Federation	678,716 number	2020	down 35.9%	falling
25	Viet Nam	670,179 number	2019	down 28.5%	falling
26	Ghana	606,110 number	2019	down 17.0%	rising
27	Morocco	592,595 number	2019	down 5.7%	flat
28	Malaysia	583,154 number	2012	up 19.7%	rising
29	Madagascar	560,185 number	2019	up 40.3%	rising
30	Côte d'Ivoire	518,087 number	2019	up 34.8%	rising
31	Thailand	496,779 number	2013	down 9.3%	falling
32	Cameroon	494,573 number	2019	up 22.2%	rising
33	Zimbabwe	460,209 number	2019	up 58.9%	rising
34	Spain	453,562 number	2020	down 4.0%	falling
35	Canada	440,121 number	2019	down 6.0%	rising
36	Haiti	428,906 number	2019	up 7.3%	rising
37	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	418,296 number	2009	up 19.9%	rising
38	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	395,034 number	2019	down 1.7%	rising
39	Malawi	388,007 number	2019	up 30.7%	rising
40	Poland	375,092 number	2020	down 33.6%	falling
41	Mali	370,605 number	2019	up 24.5%	rising
42	Syrian Arab Republic	332,788 number	2019	down 27.1%	falling
43	Ecuador	319,756 number	2019	—	rising
44	Sri Lanka	318,635 number	2019	up 95.8%	rising
45	Senegal	311,302 number	2019	up 25.9%	rising
46	Cambodia	304,772 number	2019	up 4.6%	rising
47	Italy	297,772 number	2020	down 1.2%	falling
48	Ukraine	262,492 number	2012	down 31.3%	falling
49	Rwanda	245,988 number	2019	up 15.8%	rising
50	Benin	237,404 number	2019	up 30.3%	rising
51	Yemen	235,416 number	2007	down 29.5%	falling
52	Saudi Arabia	231,376 number	2019	down 54.0%	falling
53	Sierra Leone	228,837 number	2019	up 78.7%	rising
54	Mozambique	222,301 number	2008	up 29.4%	rising
55	Niger	212,995 number	2019	up 64.5%	rising
56	Romania	208,203 number	2020	down 57.0%	falling
57	Burkina Faso	204,366 number	2019	up 35.8%	rising
58	Zambia	189,421 number	2019	down 29.7%	falling
59	Tunisia	169,168 number	2019	down 22.4%	falling
60	Libya	166,169 number	2017	down 16.0%	rising
61	Chad	161,463 number	2019	up 39.9%	falling
62	Togo	152,707 number	2019	up 25.3%	rising
63	Australia	152,333 number	2019	down 0.4%	rising
64	Cuba	142,779 number	2019	down 17.8%	flat
65	Lao People's Democratic Republic	142,216 number	2019	down 3.4%	rising
66	Paraguay	128,488 number	2005	up 50.7%	rising
67	Nicaragua	123,061 number	2019	down 2.8%	flat
68	Greece	107,722 number	2020	down 12.8%	falling
69	Kazakhstan	106,549 number	2020	down 32.6%	falling
70	Sweden	104,508 number	2020	up 59.3%	rising
71	Netherlands	104,200 number	2020	down 2.0%	rising
72	Hungary	101,285 number	2020	down 20.5%	falling
73	Liberia	99,909 number	2019	up 40.9%	rising
74	Congo	97,904 number	2019	up 27.3%	rising
75	Papua New Guinea	90,410 number	2019	up 20.8%	rising
76	Tajikistan	87,280 number	2011	up 30.2%	rising
77	Mauritania	72,806 number	2012	up 146.7%	rising
78	Denmark	71,889 number	2012	up 17.5%	flat
79	Panama	71,657 number	2019	up 11.8%	rising
80	Gambia	71,424 number	2019	up 29.5%	rising
81	Serbia	71,031 number	2019	down 24.0%	falling
82	Azerbaijan	68,687 number	2019	down 27.3%	falling
83	Israel	65,580 number	2019	up 19.1%	rising
84	Belgium	65,245 number	2020	down 2.4%	rising
85	Ireland	64,299 number	2019	up 6.6%	falling
86	Oman	63,604 number	2012	up 29.1%	rising
87	Bulgaria	60,009 number	2019	down 41.9%	falling
88	Portugal	54,331 number	2020	down 6.9%	falling
89	Jamaica	52,331 number	2019	down 5.8%	rising
90	Palestine, State of	51,792 number	2019	up 16.8%	rising
91	Uruguay	50,536 number	2004	down 8.3%	falling
92	Kyrgyzstan	50,245 number	2020	down 19.3%	falling
93	Namibia	48,338 number	2019	up 4.5%	rising
94	Switzerland	46,908 number	2020	up 0.0%	rising
95	Turkmenistan	46,385 number	2019	down 60.1%	falling
96	Czechia	46,294 number	2020	down 65.6%	falling
97	Austria	45,894 number	2020	down 11.7%	falling
98	Kuwait	45,550 number	2019	up 16.6%	rising
99	Mongolia	44,170 number	2019	down 52.8%	volatile
100	Belarus	43,564 number	2019	down 79.0%	volatile
101	Puerto Rico	39,850 number	2019	down 30.6%	falling
102	Guinea-Bissau	37,611 number	2019	down 18.4%	flat
103	Norway	34,488 number	2020	up 5.8%	rising
104	Hong Kong, China	32,861 number	2019	down 26.5%	falling
105	Eritrea	32,139 number	2019	down 58.6%	rising
106	Finland	30,724 number	2020	down 13.0%	volatile
107	New Zealand	30,557 number	2019	down 8.0%	rising
108	Bhutan	29,255 number	2020	down 10.0%	rising
109	Slovakia	27,843 number	2020	down 30.9%	falling
110	Georgia	23,214 number	2020	down 29.1%	falling
111	Lesotho	21,588 number	2019	down 6.7%	falling
112	Botswana	21,260 number	2019	up 3.4%	rising
113	Djibouti	19,860 number	2019	up 4.3%	falling
114	Republic of Moldova	19,554 number	2019	down 43.7%	falling
115	Gabon	18,284 number	2019	down 41.5%	falling
116	Qatar	17,743 number	2019	up 9.4%	flat
117	Trinidad and Tobago	17,508 number	2019	down 22.8%	falling
118	Latvia	17,190 number	2019	down 50.5%	falling
119	Comoros	16,485 number	2019	up 132.8%	rising
120	Guyana	15,821 number	2019	down 1.4%	rising
121	Lithuania	15,592 number	2019	down 34.0%	falling
122	Fiji	14,957 number	2019	down 8.8%	falling
123	North Macedonia	13,028 number	2019	down 19.1%	falling
124	Eswatini	12,667 number	2019	up 8.4%	flat
125	Luxembourg	11,335 number	2020	up 27.6%	rising
126	Estonia	11,177 number	2020	down 40.8%	falling
127	Slovenia	11,022 number	2012	down 24.8%	falling
128	Cyprus	10,328 number	2019	down 20.4%	falling
129	Suriname	10,229 number	2019	down 48.2%	falling
130	Mauritius	9,691 number	2019	down 54.0%	falling
131	Montenegro	8,581 number	2019	down 7.9%	flat
132	Maldives	8,280 number	2019	down 17.6%	rising
133	Bahrain	8,003 number	2019	down 11.1%	rising
134	Belize	7,958 number	2019	up 23.1%	rising
135	Solomon Islands	6,768 number	2019	up 26.4%	rising
136	Vanuatu	5,668 number	2019	up 26.7%	rising
137	Cape Verde	4,863 number	2019	down 18.8%	rising
138	Malta	4,762 number	2019	up 63.0%	rising
139	Barbados	3,934 number	2019	up 1.9%	falling
140	Brunei Darussalam	3,532 number	2012	up 12.8%	rising
141	Curaçao	3,306 number	2019	down 5.1%	flat
142	Bahamas	3,230 number	2019	up 4.2%	rising
143	Micronesia, Federated States of	2,469 number	2019	up 6.3%	flat
144	Iceland	2,183 number	2020	down 3.4%	falling
145	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,940 number	2019	down 4.2%	falling
146	Samoa	1,904 number	2019	down 0.2%	rising
147	Grenada	1,630 number	2019	down 23.1%	falling
148	Antigua and Barbuda	1,493 number	2019	up 7.7%	rising
149	Saint Lucia	1,435 number	2019	down 56.6%	falling
150	Marshall Islands	1,348 number	2019	down 9.8%	flat
151	Seychelles	1,282 number	2019	down 46.8%	falling
152	Dominica	1,148 number	2019	down 25.0%	rising
153	Tonga	1,139 number	2019	up 0.8%	falling
154	Kiribati	1,103 number	2008	up 34.0%	rising
155	San Marino	879 number	2010	up 21.2%	rising
156	Saint Kitts and Nevis	777 number	2019	down 7.7%	falling
157	Cayman Islands	741 number	2019	up 8.5%	rising
158	British Virgin Islands	677 number	2019	up 115.6%	rising
159	Sint Maarten	626 number	2019	up 32.1%	rising
160	Turks and Caicos Islands	616 number	2019	up 37.5%	rising
161	Gibraltar	483 number	2019	up 6.9%	rising
162	Liechtenstein	391 number	2019	down 19.5%	flat
163	Palau	233 number	2019	down 29.4%	falling
164	Naoero	96 number	2019	up 1.1%	volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 79.03 million number
IDA & IBRD total 70.61 million number
Low & middle income 70.49 million number
European Union 4.50 million number
Middle income 63.57 million number
Lower middle income 48.40 million number
IBRD only 47.71 million number
Early-demographic dividend 42.61 million number
South Asia 32.98 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 32.98 million number
IDA total 22.96 million number
Late-demographic dividend 15.77 million number
Upper middle income 15.17 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 15.08 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 15.08 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 15.07 million number
East Asia & Pacific 14.71 million number
IDA only 14.42 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 13.83 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 13.44 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 13.09 million number
Least developed countries 12.76 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 9.87 million number
OECD members 8.65 million number
High income 8.54 million number
IDA blend 8.48 million number
Post-demographic dividend 7.56 million number
Low income 6.92 million number
Europe & Central Asia 5.71 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 4.09 million number
Arab World 4.03 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 3.83 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 3.71 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 3.69 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 3.66 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 3.64 million number
Euro area 3.58 million number
North America 2.63 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.80 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.20 million number

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Indicator: School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 209 places, 4,244 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed: 21 August 2026

Male population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to post-secondary non-tertiary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.