School age population, pre-primary education, both sexes (number) by country

Name: School age population, pre-primary education, both sexes (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to pre-primary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.

Countries reporting

206

Highest

69.89 million number

India

Lowest

531 number

British Virgin Islands

Median

334,316 number

Years covered

1970–2020

Data points

12,152

What the numbers show

School age population, pre-primary education, both sexes (number) is currently reported for 206 countries. The highest value is 69.89 million number in India; the lowest is 531 number in British Virgin Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 334,316 number, and the mean is 1.71 million number.

Over the past decade 152 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in South Africa (up 381.5%), and the largest decrease in Syria (down 34.3%).

School age population, pre-primary education, both sexes (number): full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	India	69.89 million number	2019	down 9.7%	rising
2	China	52.25 million number	2019	up 5.9%	falling
3	United States	12.02 million number	2018	up 0.2%	rising
4	Pakistan	10.57 million number	2019	up 15.5%	rising
5	Indonesia	9.66 million number	2019	up 4.5%	rising
6	Ethiopia	9.19 million number	2019	up 14.8%	rising
7	Brazil	8.72 million number	2011	down 12.3%	falling
8	Bangladesh	8.71 million number	2019	down 8.4%	volatile
9	Democratic Republic of Congo	8.58 million number	2019	up 38.2%	rising
10	Russia	7.63 million number	2020	up 30.7%	falling
11	Mexico	6.75 million number	2019	up 48.8%	rising
12	Nigeria	6.07 million number	2019	up 29.5%	falling
13	Egypt	5.06 million number	2019	up 43.8%	rising
14	South Africa	4.68 million number	2019	up 381.5%	volatile
15	Vietnam	4.60 million number	2019	up 13.6%	flat
16	Uganda	4.43 million number	2019	up 29.8%	volatile
17	Kenya	4.20 million number	2019	up 9.4%	rising
18	Turkey	4.12 million number	2019	up 6.6%	rising
19	Tanzania	3.44 million number	2019	up 27.1%	rising
20	Mozambique	2.88 million number	2019	up 23.7%	volatile
21	Uzbekistan	2.69 million number	2020	up 30.7%	rising
22	Niger	2.41 million number	2019	up 46.6%	volatile
23	Yemen	2.41 million number	2019	up 19.5%	rising
24	Sudan	2.38 million number	2020	up 14.9%	rising
25	France	2.36 million number	2019	down 0.9%	flat
26	Germany	2.31 million number	2020	up 10.5%	falling
27	Philippines	2.29 million number	2019	up 5.2%	rising
28	Thailand	2.27 million number	2019	down 8.9%	falling
29	Cote d'Ivoire	2.25 million number	2019	up 21.0%	rising
30	Argentina	2.25 million number	2019	up 4.6%	rising
31	Madagascar	2.25 million number	2019	up 18.8%	rising
32	Zambia	2.24 million number	2019	up 23.2%	rising
33	Colombia	2.22 million number	2019	down 9.8%	rising
34	Angola	2.14 million number	2019	up 184.8%	rising
35	Iraq	2.13 million number	2019	up 27.0%	rising
36	Mali	1.92 million number	2019	down 1.8%	volatile
37	Burkina Faso	1.91 million number	2019	up 32.2%	rising
38	Saudi Arabia	1.82 million number	2019	up 11.1%	rising
39	Myanmar	1.79 million number	2019	down 15.3%	rising
40	Malawi	1.66 million number	2019	up 16.4%	rising
41	Venezuela	1.65 million number	2019	down 4.0%	rising
42	United Kingdom	1.63 million number	2020	up 13.6%	falling
43	Peru	1.59 million number	2019	down 8.8%	rising
44	Chad	1.59 million number	2019	up 29.7%	rising
45	Ghana	1.58 million number	2019	up 21.2%	rising
46	Italy	1.53 million number	2020	down 9.4%	falling
47	Cameroon	1.52 million number	2019	up 26.2%	rising
48	Ukraine	1.51 million number	2014	up 21.1%	falling
49	Somalia	1.49 million number	2019	up 24.2%	volatile
50	Poland	1.49 million number	2020	up 3.7%	falling
51	Senegal	1.49 million number	2019	up 32.9%	rising
52	Iran	1.39 million number	2019	up 23.0%	rising
53	Morocco	1.39 million number	2019	up 13.6%	rising
54	South Korea	1.35 million number	2019	up 182.8%	rising
55	Spain	1.26 million number	2020	down 9.3%	falling
56	Guatemala	1.20 million number	2019	up 51.1%	rising
57	Kazakhstan	1.20 million number	2020	up 17.8%	falling
58	Guinea	1.13 million number	2019	up 18.7%	rising
59	Nepal	1.10 million number	2019	down 14.4%	falling
60	Afghanistan	1.09 million number	2019	up 14.3%	rising
61	Cambodia	1.06 million number	2019	up 16.1%	rising
62	Syria	1.06 million number	2019	down 34.3%	rising
63	Malaysia	1.03 million number	2020	up 1.4%	rising
64	Rwanda	1.02 million number	2019	up 20.4%	rising
65	Tajikistan	997,986 number	2019	up 48.5%	rising
66	South Sudan	978,611 number	2019	up 19.1%	rising
67	Ecuador	976,337 number	2019	up 5.1%	volatile
68	Algeria	955,517 number	2020	up 60.3%	falling
69	Zimbabwe	909,487 number	2019	up 28.5%	rising
70	Papua New Guinea	849,005 number	2019	up 352.1%	volatile
71	Haiti	754,949 number	2019	up 2.3%	rising
72	Chile	748,901 number	2019	up 56.4%	rising
73	Burundi	722,488 number	2019	up 45.5%	rising
74	Benin	691,778 number	2019	up 26.8%	rising
75	Togo	689,454 number	2019	up 19.8%	rising
76	Sri Lanka	670,628 number	2019	up 87.6%	rising
77	North Korea	667,616 number	2019	down 12.4%	falling
78	Sierra Leone	657,168 number	2019	up 13.6%	rising
79	Kyrgyzstan	640,128 number	2020	up 58.4%	rising
80	Tunisia	627,358 number	2019	up 31.2%	flat
81	Honduras	592,703 number	2019	down 5.9%	rising
82	Dominican Republic	580,254 number	2019	down 3.1%	falling
83	Romania	554,413 number	2020	down 33.2%	falling
84	Netherlands	527,965 number	2020	up 31.2%	rising
85	Azerbaijan	503,195 number	2019	up 34.2%	falling
86	Israel	502,786 number	2019	up 25.4%	rising
87	Bolivia	475,323 number	2019	up 0.1%	rising
88	Sweden	473,365 number	2020	up 12.9%	flat
89	Congo	472,576 number	2019	up 28.9%	rising
90	Jordan	467,670 number	2019	up 34.4%	rising
91	Laos	464,675 number	2019	up 4.0%	rising
92	Central African Republic	427,985 number	2019	up 4.7%	rising
93	Turkmenistan	424,410 number	2019	up 5.4%	rising
94	Liberia	417,420 number	2019	up 21.1%	rising
95	Paraguay	412,484 number	2019	up 3.1%	rising
96	Nicaragua	399,228 number	2019	up 2.1%	flat
97	Canada	395,340 number	2019	up 12.5%	falling
98	Belgium	392,747 number	2020	up 8.0%	falling
99	Mauritania	383,917 number	2019	up 30.1%	rising
100	Cuba	382,041 number	2019	down 1.2%	rising
101	Belarus	360,537 number	2019	up 33.6%	falling
102	Hungary	353,272 number	2020	down 8.4%	falling
103	El Salvador	343,183 number	2019	down 7.9%	falling
104	Czechia	325,448 number	2020	up 5.1%	falling
105	Australia	324,604 number	2019	up 20.2%	rising
106	Mongolia	302,732 number	2019	up 125.3%	rising
107	Gambia	297,924 number	2020	up 33.4%	volatile
108	Palestine	272,543 number	2019	up 20.6%	rising
109	Libya	265,580 number	2019	up 14.6%	rising
110	Bulgaria	264,440 number	2019	up 0.0%	falling
111	Serbia	263,139 number	2019	down 14.3%	falling
112	Austria	258,143 number	2020	up 8.2%	falling
113	Portugal	252,728 number	2020	down 19.5%	falling
114	Finland	236,837 number	2020	up 2.6%	rising
115	Lebanon	214,430 number	1985	up 2.3%	rising
116	United Arab Emirates	205,994 number	2019	up 50.7%	volatile
117	Eritrea	192,954 number	2019	up 21.6%	rising
118	Norway	184,105 number	2020	up 4.8%	falling
119	Greece	177,356 number	2020	down 17.1%	falling
120	Gabon	175,394 number	2019	up 45.6%	rising
121	Switzerland	174,130 number	2020	up 17.1%	falling
122	Hong Kong	174,110 number	2019	up 25.9%	falling
123	Georgia	172,816 number	2020	up 24.5%	falling
124	Denmark	172,711 number	2020	down 33.5%	volatile
125	Guinea-Bissau	172,182 number	2019	up 31.8%	rising
126	Slovakia	168,993 number	2020	up 7.3%	falling
127	Botswana	163,490 number	2019	up 12.7%	rising
128	Croatia	160,060 number	2019	down 1.3%	falling
129	Oman	156,830 number	2019	up 63.4%	rising
130	Panama	155,536 number	2019	up 9.8%	volatile
131	Moldova	151,810 number	2019	up 2.9%	falling
132	Lesotho	143,576 number	2019	down 1.2%	rising
133	Uruguay	143,195 number	2019	down 2.6%	falling
134	Costa Rica	143,155 number	2019	up 1.7%	rising
135	Jamaica	142,639 number	2019	down 2.5%	falling
136	Puerto Rico	135,856 number	2013	up 22.3%	falling
137	Namibia	129,171 number	2019	up 28.9%	volatile
138	Armenia	128,745 number	2020	down 11.6%	falling
139	Ireland	128,075 number	2019	up 107.3%	falling
140	Kuwait	126,227 number	2019	up 48.4%	rising
141	New Zealand	122,124 number	2019	up 4.1%	rising
142	Lithuania	118,202 number	2019	up 5.0%	falling
143	Equatorial Guinea	104,256 number	2019	up 45.2%	volatile
144	Albania	104,207 number	2019	down 14.8%	falling
145	East Timor	95,664 number	2019	up 44.6%	rising
146	Bosnia and Herzegovina	92,951 number	2019	—	falling
147	Latvia	84,755 number	2019	up 4.4%	falling
148	Eswatini	84,508 number	2019	down 1.4%	rising
149	Qatar	80,744 number	2019	up 75.1%	volatile
150	Comoros	70,735 number	2019	up 21.6%	rising
151	North Macedonia	70,370 number	2019	down 4.3%	falling
152	Bahrain	66,625 number	2019	up 32.2%	rising
153	Slovenia	64,544 number	2020	up 17.0%	falling
154	Solomon Islands	59,137 number	2019	up 32.0%	rising
155	Estonia	57,687 number	2020	up 4.2%	falling
156	Fiji	53,856 number	2019	up 5.1%	rising
157	Guyana	45,368 number	2019	up 42.0%	falling
158	Djibouti	40,649 number	2020	up 8.0%	rising
159	Trinidad and Tobago	37,908 number	2019	up 0.8%	falling
160	Cape Verde	32,315 number	2019	up 0.3%	rising
161	Cyprus	27,987 number	2019	up 10.7%	falling
162	Mauritius	26,055 number	2019	down 28.2%	falling
163	Bhutan	24,547 number	2020	down 10.3%	rising
164	Maldives	22,797 number	2019	up 37.0%	rising
165	Montenegro	21,870 number	2019	down 31.2%	falling
166	Brunei	21,166 number	2019	up 7.8%	rising
167	Suriname	21,154 number	2019	up 0.4%	falling
168	Macao	20,566 number	2019	up 91.0%	rising
169	Luxembourg	19,887 number	2020	up 14.9%	rising
170	Sao Tome and Principe	18,590 number	2019	up 10.3%	rising
171	Belize	15,701 number	2019	up 1.9%	rising
172	French Polynesia	15,686 number	1997	up 19.9%	rising
173	Vanuatu	15,548 number	2019	up 32.4%	rising
174	Iceland	13,113 number	2020	down 0.3%	rising
175	Samoa	10,378 number	2019	up 5.8%	rising
176	Bahamas	9,980 number	2019	down 18.4%	rising
177	Kiribati	8,697 number	2019	up 30.9%	rising
178	Malta	8,662 number	2019	up 14.3%	flat
179	Micronesia (country)	7,109 number	2019	down 3.3%	rising
180	Barbados	5,999 number	2019	down 19.3%	falling
181	Tonga	5,002 number	2019	down 8.8%	falling
182	American Samoa	4,597 number	1997	up 34.9%	rising
183	Saint Lucia	4,474 number	2019	down 6.7%	falling
184	Curacao	4,118 number	2019	down 0.6%	flat
185	Grenada	3,635 number	2019	up 9.9%	falling
186	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3,324 number	2019	down 4.1%	falling
187	Guam	3,247 number	1997	up 23.9%	rising
188	Seychelles	3,213 number	2019	up 14.0%	falling
189	Antigua and Barbuda	2,969 number	2019	up 8.2%	falling
190	Marshall Islands	2,889 number	2019	down 11.5%	rising
191	Aruba	2,216 number	2019	down 17.4%	rising
192	Andorra	1,997 number	1998	up 26.7%	rising
193	United States Virgin Islands	1,877 number	1997	down 13.6%	falling
194	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,744 number	2019	up 92.9%	rising
195	Dominica	1,706 number	2019	down 10.5%	falling
196	Cayman Islands	1,531 number	2019	up 2.7%	volatile
197	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,418 number	2019	down 0.8%	falling
198	Turks and Caicos Islands	993 number	2019	down 17.4%	rising
199	San Marino	936 number	2019	up 5.9%	flat
200	Gibraltar	852 number	2019	up 78.6%	rising
201	Nauru	825 number	2019	up 16.9%	rising
202	Tuvalu	815 number	2019	up 9.1%	rising
203	Palau	746 number	2019	down 10.3%	falling
204	Liechtenstein	742 number	2019	up 2.1%	falling
205	Bermuda	557 number	2019	down 23.4%	falling
206	British Virgin Islands	531 number	2019	down 30.9%	rising

Regions and income groups

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

World 351.99 million number
IDA & IBRD total 316.71 million number
Low & middle income 314.69 million number
Middle income 260.36 million number
IBRD only 208.30 million number
Early-demographic dividend 165.29 million number
Lower middle income 145.28 million number
Upper middle income 115.08 million number
IDA total 108.87 million number
South Asia 92.07 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 92.07 million number
Late-demographic dividend 88.00 million number
East Asia & Pacific 82.85 million number
IDA only 80.96 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 80.40 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 80.40 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 80.37 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 77.49 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 76.83 million number
Least developed countries 75.59 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 65.54 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 63.91 million number
Low income 54.33 million number
OECD members 46.33 million number
High income 37.30 million number
Europe & Central Asia 37.07 million number
Post-demographic dividend 33.11 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 28.01 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 27.51 million number
IDA blend 27.45 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 26.80 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 23.77 million number
Arab World 21.77 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 21.55 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 19.37 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 16.40 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 16.13 million number
European Union 15.42 million number
North America 12.22 million number
Euro area 9.98 million number

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Indicator: School age population, pre-primary education, both sexes (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 251 places, 12,152 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed: 30 October 2026

Population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to pre-primary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.