Share of children who have completed primary school in Gabon
Gabon: Share of children who have completed primary school was 74.2% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Share of children who have completed primary school in Gabon, 1981–2025
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
Gabon recorded 74.2% for share of children who have completed primary school in 2025. That is the highest value across all 45 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.6% on the previous year and up 10.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, share of children who have completed primary school in Gabon peaked at 74.2% in 2025 and was at its lowest, 49.3%, in 1981.
Gabon ranks 136th of 165 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 45 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 50.6% | 49.3% | 51.8% | 9 |
| 1990s | 54.0% | 52.0% | 56.3% | 10 |
| 2000s | 60.4% | 57.0% | 63.1% | 10 |
| 2010s | 67.0% | 63.6% | 70.9% | 10 |
| 2020s | 73.1% | 71.7% | 74.2% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Gabon
More education data for Gabon
- Duration of pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 59.6% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 36.2% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 11 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 100.2% (2019)
- Primary education, teachers 10,935 (2019)
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling 3.59 live births per woman (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 98.0% (2019)
Frequently asked questions
- What is share of children who have completed primary school in Gabon?
- Share of children who have completed primary school in Gabon was 74.2% in 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest share of children who have completed primary school recorded in Gabon?
- The highest recorded value was 74.2% in 2025.
- What is the lowest share of children who have completed primary school recorded in Gabon?
- The lowest recorded value was 49.3% in 1981.
- How does Gabon rank for share of children who have completed primary school?
- Gabon ranks 136th out of 165 countries with data for 2025.
- Is share of children who have completed primary school rising or falling in Gabon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 10.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Gabon data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Share of children who have completed primary school. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The share of children who are three to five years older than the official age for the last grade of primary education who have successfully completed it. This broader age band is used to include children who started school late or had to resit particular years.