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Secondary education, general pupils, per square kilometre by country

Secondary education, general pupils divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
203
Highest
1,517 units per square kilometre
Monaco
Lowest
0.1386 units per square kilometre
Somalia
Median
6.15 units per square kilometre
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
9,094

What the numbers show

Secondary education, general pupils, per square kilometre is currently reported for 203 countries. The highest value is 1,517 units per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0.1386 units per square kilometre in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 6.15 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 27.18 units per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10,948.

Over the past decade 122 countries rose and 71 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 414.9%), and the largest decrease in Macao (down 43.2%).

Secondary education, general pupils, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 1,517 units per square kilometre 2019 up 26.0% rising
2 Macao 780.3 units per square kilometre 2018 down 43.2% rising
3 Hong Kong 325.32 units per square kilometre 2018 down 32.7% rising
4 Singapore 240.62 units per square kilometre 2017 down 18.1% rising
5 Gibraltar 221.2 units per square kilometre 2017 up 32.1% rising
6 Palestine, State of 126.18 units per square kilometre 2018 up 8.3% rising
7 Bahrain 118.87 units per square kilometre 2018 up 37.2% rising
8 Bangladesh 116.1 units per square kilometre 2018 up 55.9% volatile
9 Malta 80.56 units per square kilometre 2017 down 22.4% rising
10 Bermuda 74.81 units per square kilometre 2015 down 15.1% falling
11 Maldives 69.9 units per square kilometre 2017 down 34.3% volatile
12 Mauritius 55.44 units per square kilometre 2018 down 3.4% rising
13 Naoero 49.6 units per square kilometre 2016 up 21.7% rising
14 Barbados 45.51 units per square kilometre 2018 down 3.8% falling
15 India 42.89 units per square kilometre 2017 up 33.8% volatile
16 Aruba 42.46 units per square kilometre 2014 up 31.5% rising
17 Sri Lanka 42.38 units per square kilometre 2018 up 15.6% rising
18 Comoros 39.6 units per square kilometre 2018 up 40.1% volatile
19 United States Virgin Islands 36.86 units per square kilometre 1997 down 3.7% rising
20 Tuvalu 35.67 units per square kilometre 2018 — rising
21 Lebanon 33.23 units per square kilometre 2018 up 3.7% rising
22 Netherlands 30.64 units per square kilometre 2017 up 33.9% rising
23 Israel 30.4 units per square kilometre 2017 up 17.1% rising
24 Guam 30 units per square kilometre 1997 up 21.7% rising
25 Marshall Islands 29.81 units per square kilometre 2016 down 0.1% flat
26 Republic of Korea 28.49 units per square kilometre 2017 down 19.5% rising
27 Philippines 28.32 units per square kilometre 2017 up 32.7% rising
28 Grenada 26.87 units per square kilometre 2018 down 26.7% rising
29 Puerto Rico 25.86 units per square kilometre 2016 — falling
30 San Marino 25.75 units per square kilometre 2018 down 9.6% rising
31 Sao Tome and Principe 25.44 units per square kilometre 2017 up 174.5% volatile
32 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 25.15 units per square kilometre 2018 down 15.7% rising
33 Viet Nam 25.15 units per square kilometre 2018 down 11.9% rising
34 Nepal 23.87 units per square kilometre 2019 up 44.7% volatile
35 Burundi 23.6 units per square kilometre 2018 up 162.8% volatile
36 Rwanda 23.09 units per square kilometre 2018 up 136.3% volatile
37 Belgium 21.82 units per square kilometre 2017 up 37.2% rising
38 Tonga 21.39 units per square kilometre 2015 up 19.3% rising
39 El Salvador 20.75 units per square kilometre 2018 down 1.2% rising
40 Saint Lucia 19.11 units per square kilometre 2018 down 26.1% rising
41 Jamaica 18.52 units per square kilometre 2018 down 24.9% rising
42 Kuwait 18.21 units per square kilometre 2018 up 31.8% rising
43 American Samoa 18.1 units per square kilometre 1997 up 14.2% rising
44 Dominican Republic 17.58 units per square kilometre 2018 down 2.2% volatile
45 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 17.26 units per square kilometre 2017 down 3.3% falling
46 Japan 17.23 units per square kilometre 2017 — flat
47 Antigua and Barbuda 17.21 units per square kilometre 2018 down 6.7% rising
48 Pakistan 16.75 units per square kilometre 2018 up 43.5% volatile
49 Germany 16.26 units per square kilometre 2017 down 9.4% flat
50 Gambia 16.11 units per square kilometre 2018 up 55.5% volatile
51 Saint Kitts and Nevis 16.06 units per square kilometre 2016 up 6.0% rising
52 Trinidad and Tobago 16.05 units per square kilometre 2010 down 25.9% rising
53 Seychelles 16.02 units per square kilometre 2018 down 6.8% rising
54 British Virgin Islands 14.51 units per square kilometre 2017 up 17.6% rising
55 Cayman Islands 14.48 units per square kilometre 2018 up 8.7% rising
56 Nigeria 13.76 units per square kilometre 2013 — volatile
57 Liechtenstein 13.25 units per square kilometre 2017 up 5.3% rising
58 Togo 13.08 units per square kilometre 2018 up 73.9% volatile
59 Cape Verde 12.94 units per square kilometre 2018 down 13.5% volatile
60 Luxembourg 12.49 units per square kilometre 2017 up 21.9% rising
61 Ghana 12.19 units per square kilometre 2019 up 57.5% volatile
62 Haiti 11.9 units per square kilometre 1997 up 111.3% volatile
63 Kiribati 11.79 units per square kilometre 2017 down 17.2% volatile
64 Türkiye 11.29 units per square kilometre 2017 up 53.8% volatile
65 Malawi 11.04 units per square kilometre 2018 up 63.6% volatile
66 Thailand 10.98 units per square kilometre 2018 up 41.9% volatile
67 Indonesia 10.65 units per square kilometre 2018 up 28.3% volatile
68 Denmark 10.48 units per square kilometre 2017 up 20.0% rising
69 Italy 10.26 units per square kilometre 2017 up 5.9% falling
70 Switzerland 9.68 units per square kilometre 2017 down 4.8% flat
71 Syria 9.63 units per square kilometre 2013 down 11.5% volatile
72 Azerbaijan 9.59 units per square kilometre 2018 down 20.4% falling
73 Timor-Leste 9.53 units per square kilometre 2018 up 80.2% rising
74 Qatar 9.3 units per square kilometre 2018 up 64.8% volatile
75 France 9.24 units per square kilometre 2017 up 4.6% rising
76 Samoa 9.2 units per square kilometre 2018 up 6.1% rising
77 Albania 9.06 units per square kilometre 2018 down 34.1% flat
78 Kenya 8.7 units per square kilometre 2016 up 93.4% volatile
79 Jordan 8.64 units per square kilometre 2018 up 13.4% volatile
80 Andorra 8.56 units per square kilometre 2018 up 12.1% rising
81 Benin 8.56 units per square kilometre 2016 up 122.5% volatile
82 Guatemala 8.17 units per square kilometre 2018 up 34.8% volatile
83 Hungary 7.77 units per square kilometre 2017 down 14.0% rising
84 Tajikistan 7.67 units per square kilometre 2017 up 8.5% rising
85 Armenia 7.56 units per square kilometre 2018 down 29.8% falling
86 Dominica 7.49 units per square kilometre 2016 down 22.7% rising
87 Brunei Darussalam 7.37 units per square kilometre 2018 down 10.4% rising
88 United Arab Emirates 7.33 units per square kilometre 2017 — volatile
89 China 7.29 units per square kilometre 2018 down 17.1% rising
90 Sierra Leone 7.23 units per square kilometre 2018 — volatile
91 Costa Rica 7.21 units per square kilometre 2018 up 14.3% volatile
92 Egypt 7.15 units per square kilometre 2018 up 32.2% rising
93 Malaysia 7.02 units per square kilometre 2018 down 2.7% rising
94 Uganda 6.84 units per square kilometre 2017 up 43.1% volatile
95 Ecuador 6.53 units per square kilometre 2018 up 84.2% volatile
96 Eswatini 6.41 units per square kilometre 2017 up 33.1% volatile
97 Myanmar 6.4 units per square kilometre 2018 up 47.9% volatile
98 Czechia 6.34 units per square kilometre 2017 down 15.2% falling
99 Slovakia 6.33 units per square kilometre 2017 down 24.3% falling
100 Portugal 6.31 units per square kilometre 2017 up 3.8% rising
101 Tunisia 6.19 units per square kilometre 2018 down 14.6% volatile
102 French Polynesia 6.15 units per square kilometre 1997 up 63.5% rising
103 Côte d'Ivoire 6.05 units per square kilometre 2018 up 126.0% volatile
104 Republic of Moldova 5.94 units per square kilometre 2018 down 36.7% falling
105 Morocco 5.88 units per square kilometre 2018 up 24.1% rising
106 Uzbekistan 5.86 units per square kilometre 2018 down 30.0% falling
107 Cuba 5.66 units per square kilometre 2018 down 5.5% rising
108 Poland 5.63 units per square kilometre 2017 down 28.8% rising
109 Senegal 5.51 units per square kilometre 2018 up 90.2% volatile
110 Cyprus 5.45 units per square kilometre 2017 down 16.9% rising
111 Austria 5.44 units per square kilometre 2017 down 5.8% falling
112 Spain 5.43 units per square kilometre 2017 up 4.7% flat
113 Ireland 5.41 units per square kilometre 2017 up 40.9% rising
114 Cambodia 5.41 units per square kilometre 2018 up 5.1% volatile
115 Mexico 5.29 units per square kilometre 2017 up 8.8% rising
116 Fiji 5.05 units per square kilometre 2016 down 5.9% rising
117 Romania 4.73 units per square kilometre 2017 down 15.3% falling
118 Afghanistan 4.66 units per square kilometre 2018 up 114.9% volatile
119 North Macedonia 4.59 units per square kilometre 2017 down 22.9% falling
120 Burkina Faso 4.58 units per square kilometre 2018 up 214.7% volatile
121 Iraq 4.5 units per square kilometre 2007 up 89.6% rising
122 Ethiopia 4.4 units per square kilometre 2017 up 53.5% volatile
123 Lesotho 4.4 units per square kilometre 2017 up 36.5% volatile
124 Greece 4.37 units per square kilometre 2017 down 1.6% flat
125 Slovenia 4.04 units per square kilometre 2017 down 15.2% falling
126 Colombia 4.02 units per square kilometre 2018 down 0.1% volatile
127 Serbia 3.98 units per square kilometre 2018 down 10.5% falling
128 Georgia 3.88 units per square kilometre 2018 down 11.2% falling
129 South Africa 3.87 units per square kilometre 2017 up 3.2% rising
130 Nicaragua 3.81 units per square kilometre 2010 up 45.3% volatile
131 Ukraine 3.8 units per square kilometre 2018 down 31.6% falling
132 Croatia 3.7 units per square kilometre 2017 down 14.8% falling
133 Cameroon 3.66 units per square kilometre 2016 up 198.0% volatile
134 Yemen 3.62 units per square kilometre 2016 up 32.2% rising
135 Panama 3.62 units per square kilometre 2017 up 23.6% rising
136 Honduras 3.6 units per square kilometre 2017 — volatile
137 Lithuania 3.49 units per square kilometre 2017 down 38.6% falling
138 Palau 3.49 units per square kilometre 2014 down 29.4% falling
139 Kyrgyzstan 3.24 units per square kilometre 2018 down 8.1% flat
140 Bulgaria 3.17 units per square kilometre 2017 down 22.1% falling
141 Iran, Islamic Republic of 3.03 units per square kilometre 2017 down 33.8% volatile
142 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.99 units per square kilometre 2018 down 30.6% falling
143 Lao People's Democratic Republic 2.91 units per square kilometre 2018 up 63.7% volatile
144 Montenegro 2.83 units per square kilometre 2018 down 16.0% falling
145 Liberia 2.8 units per square kilometre 2017 up 104.2% volatile
146 Belarus 2.79 units per square kilometre 2018 down 26.7% falling
147 Guinea-Bissau 2.77 units per square kilometre 2010 up 213.2% volatile
148 Guinea 2.74 units per square kilometre 2016 up 40.8% volatile
149 Bahamas 2.69 units per square kilometre 2018 down 21.8% rising
150 Brazil 2.65 units per square kilometre 2017 down 1.2% rising
151 Djibouti 2.62 units per square kilometre 2019 up 43.0% volatile
152 Madagascar 2.6 units per square kilometre 2018 up 65.7% volatile
153 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 2.56 units per square kilometre 2017 up 10.0% rising
154 Zimbabwe 2.48 units per square kilometre 2013 up 26.3% volatile
155 Turks and Caicos Islands 2.44 units per square kilometre 2018 up 10.5% volatile
156 Tanzania, United Republic of 2.42 units per square kilometre 2018 up 75.1% volatile
157 Peru 2.13 units per square kilometre 2018 up 6.2% rising
158 Eritrea 2.13 units per square kilometre 2018 up 13.2% rising
159 Bhutan 1.96 units per square kilometre 2018 up 56.3% volatile
160 Solomon Islands 1.88 units per square kilometre 2018 up 92.3% volatile
161 Sweden 1.79 units per square kilometre 2017 up 35.7% rising
162 Algeria 1.71 units per square kilometre 2018 up 15.0% volatile
163 Argentina 1.69 units per square kilometre 2017 up 18.4% volatile
164 Chile 1.65 units per square kilometre 2017 up 0.6% rising
165 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.65 units per square kilometre 2015 up 66.3% volatile
166 Vanuatu 1.65 units per square kilometre 2015 up 144.4% volatile
167 Belize 1.62 units per square kilometre 2018 up 24.3% rising
168 New Zealand 1.58 units per square kilometre 2017 down 2.7% rising
169 Uruguay 1.56 units per square kilometre 2017 up 8.9% rising
170 Mozambique 1.52 units per square kilometre 2018 up 147.8% volatile
171 Latvia 1.5 units per square kilometre 2017 down 41.2% falling
172 Estonia 1.49 units per square kilometre 2017 down 33.6% falling
173 Saudi Arabia 1.44 units per square kilometre 2018 up 10.7% rising
174 Angola 1.4 units per square kilometre 2016 up 414.9% volatile
175 Oman 1.36 units per square kilometre 2018 up 32.4% volatile
176 Paraguay 1.29 units per square kilometre 2016 up 7.0% volatile
177 Equatorial Guinea 1.25 units per square kilometre 2015 up 45.3% volatile
178 Sudan 1.17 units per square kilometre 2017 up 28.4% rising
179 Zambia 1.15 units per square kilometre 2017 up 40.7% volatile
180 Papua New Guinea 1.02 units per square kilometre 2016 — volatile
181 New Caledonia 0.9683 units per square kilometre 1997 up 30.7% rising
182 Finland 0.9271 units per square kilometre 2017 down 8.1% falling
183 Congo 0.8929 units per square kilometre 2012 up 85.4% rising
184 Norway 0.8806 units per square kilometre 2017 up 13.1% rising
185 Mali 0.753 units per square kilometre 2018 up 71.2% volatile
186 Kazakhstan 0.6389 units per square kilometre 2019 up 5.7% falling
187 Niger 0.6126 units per square kilometre 2018 up 240.0% volatile
188 Gabon 0.5669 units per square kilometre 2011 up 55.2% volatile
189 Russian Federation 0.5174 units per square kilometre 2017 down 5.4% falling
190 Chad 0.4188 units per square kilometre 2016 up 103.6% volatile
191 Guyana 0.4134 units per square kilometre 2012 up 23.7% flat
192 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.4109 units per square kilometre 2018 up 5.4% rising
193 Libya 0.3523 units per square kilometre 2003 — volatile
194 Botswana 0.2991 units per square kilometre 2015 up 5.9% volatile
195 Iceland 0.2832 units per square kilometre 2017 up 3.5% rising
196 Canada 0.2816 units per square kilometre 2017 down 3.6% flat
197 Namibia 0.2457 units per square kilometre 2017 up 27.9% rising
198 Mauritania 0.2286 units per square kilometre 2018 up 146.8% volatile
199 Australia 0.2184 units per square kilometre 2017 up 11.7% rising
200 Central African Republic 0.213 units per square kilometre 2017 up 67.3% volatile
201 Suriname 0.2056 units per square kilometre 2018 up 29.0% rising
202 Mongolia 0.1593 units per square kilometre 2010 up 13.8% rising
203 Somalia 0.1386 units per square kilometre 2007 — volatile

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

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Secondary education, general pupils divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Secondary education, general pupils ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Secondary education, general pupils, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
246 places, 9,094 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed

Secondary education, general pupils divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.