Primary education, pupils - Country Ranking
Definition: Primary education pupils is the total number of pupils enrolled at primary level in public and private schools.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)
See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 121,700,200.00 | 2020 |
| 2 | China | 106,250,500.00 | 2020 |
| 3 | Indonesia | 29,425,750.00 | 2018 |
| 4 | Nigeria | 27,889,390.00 | 2018 |
| 5 | United States | 24,786,460.00 | 2019 |
| 6 | Pakistan | 23,588,000.00 | 2019 |
| 7 | Ethiopia | 20,419,150.00 | 2020 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 17,603,840.00 | 2020 |
| 9 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 16,807,010.00 | 2018 |
| 10 | Brazil | 15,690,310.00 | 2019 |
| 11 | Mexico | 14,012,770.00 | 2019 |
| 12 | Egypt | 13,265,040.00 | 2019 |
| 13 | Philippines | 13,195,090.00 | 2019 |
| 14 | Tanzania | 10,925,900.00 | 2020 |
| 15 | Uganda | 8,840,589.00 | 2017 |
| 16 | Vietnam | 8,718,356.00 | 2020 |
| 17 | Kenya | 8,290,450.00 | 2016 |
| 18 | Iran | 8,171,667.00 | 2017 |
| 19 | South Africa | 7,688,381.00 | 2019 |
| 20 | Mozambique | 7,219,935.00 | 2020 |
| 21 | Russia | 7,123,403.00 | 2019 |
| 22 | Afghanistan | 6,777,785.00 | 2019 |
| 23 | Japan | 6,494,115.00 | 2019 |
| 24 | Angola | 5,620,915.00 | 2015 |
| 25 | Myanmar | 5,299,765.00 | 2018 |
| 26 | Turkey | 5,267,378.00 | 2019 |
| 27 | Sudan | 5,118,140.00 | 2018 |
| 28 | United Kingdom | 4,919,259.00 | 2019 |
| 29 | Thailand | 4,886,781.00 | 2020 |
| 30 | Iraq | 4,864,350.00 | 2007 |
| 31 | Algeria | 4,852,322.00 | 2020 |
| 32 | Argentina | 4,800,419.00 | 2019 |
| 33 | Madagascar | 4,648,600.00 | 2019 |
| 34 | Malawi | 4,593,328.00 | 2019 |
| 35 | Ghana | 4,584,381.00 | 2020 |
| 36 | Morocco | 4,535,919.00 | 2020 |
| 37 | Cameroon | 4,399,897.00 | 2019 |
| 38 | France | 4,299,109.00 | 2019 |
| 39 | Colombia | 4,263,988.00 | 2019 |
| 40 | Côte d'Ivoire | 4,101,430.00 | 2020 |
| 41 | Nepal | 3,970,016.00 | 2019 |
| 42 | Yemen | 3,900,134.00 | 2016 |
| 43 | Peru | 3,841,744.00 | 2020 |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 3,432,102.00 | 2020 |
| 45 | Venezuela | 3,285,299.00 | 2017 |
| 46 | Zambia | 3,284,841.00 | 2017 |
| 47 | Burkina Faso | 3,240,347.00 | 2020 |
| 48 | Malaysia | 3,066,391.00 | 2019 |
| 49 | Spain | 3,038,332.00 | 2019 |
| 50 | Germany | 2,996,959.00 | 2019 |
| 51 | Zimbabwe | 2,869,735.00 | 2020 |
| 52 | Italy | 2,834,910.00 | 2019 |
| 53 | Korea | 2,755,682.00 | 2019 |
| 54 | Niger | 2,666,748.00 | 2019 |
| 55 | Rwanda | 2,512,465.00 | 2019 |
| 56 | Uzbekistan | 2,508,453.00 | 2020 |
| 57 | Mali | 2,477,081.00 | 2018 |
| 58 | Chad | 2,468,784.00 | 2019 |
| 59 | Canada | 2,407,739.00 | 2019 |
| 60 | Guatemala | 2,348,398.00 | 2020 |
| 61 | Poland | 2,312,509.00 | 2019 |
| 62 | Burundi | 2,302,280.00 | 2021 |
| 63 | Australia | 2,263,884.00 | 2019 |
| 64 | Senegal | 2,259,988.00 | 2020 |
| 65 | Benin | 2,182,724.00 | 2020 |
| 66 | Cambodia | 2,165,444.00 | 2020 |
| 67 | Guinea | 2,107,661.00 | 2020 |
| 68 | Ecuador | 1,876,429.00 | 2020 |
| 69 | Sierra Leone | 1,759,773.00 | 2020 |
| 70 | Ukraine | 1,724,705.00 | 2020 |
| 71 | Sri Lanka | 1,710,466.00 | 2019 |
| 72 | Togo | 1,634,441.00 | 2020 |
| 73 | Chile | 1,552,914.00 | 2019 |
| 74 | Syrian Arab Republic | 1,547,316.00 | 2013 |
| 75 | Kazakhstan | 1,513,077.00 | 2020 |
| 76 | Dem. People's Rep. Korea | 1,507,780.00 | 2018 |
| 77 | Haiti | 1,485,722.00 | 1998 |
| 78 | Papua New Guinea | 1,394,208.00 | 2018 |
| 79 | Bolivia | 1,386,544.00 | 2019 |
| 80 | Tunisia | 1,269,412.00 | 2020 |
| 81 | Dominican Republic | 1,223,677.00 | 2020 |
| 82 | Netherlands | 1,170,170.00 | 2019 |
| 83 | Jordan | 1,126,254.00 | 2020 |
| 84 | Honduras | 1,080,048.00 | 2020 |
| 85 | Israel | 957,167.00 | 2019 |
| 86 | Romania | 931,419.00 | 2019 |
| 87 | Nicaragua | 923,745.00 | 2010 |
| 88 | Sweden | 888,850.30 | 2019 |
| 89 | Belgium | 823,109.00 | 2019 |
| 90 | Central African Republic | 813,767.00 | 2016 |
| 91 | Congo | 783,448.00 | 2018 |
| 92 | Tajikistan | 771,040.00 | 2017 |
| 93 | Lao PDR | 760,566.00 | 2020 |
| 94 | Cuba | 759,803.00 | 2020 |
| 95 | Libya | 755,338.00 | 2006 |
| 96 | Paraguay | 691,877.00 | 2020 |
| 97 | Mauritania | 677,458.00 | 2019 |
| 98 | Azerbaijan | 651,258.00 | 2020 |
| 99 | Greece | 635,950.00 | 2019 |
| 100 | Liberia | 635,478.00 | 2017 |
| 101 | El Salvador | 626,300.00 | 2019 |
| 102 | Portugal | 612,700.00 | 2019 |
| 103 | Turkmenistan | 588,703.00 | 2020 |
| 104 | Czech Republic | 581,823.00 | 2019 |
| 105 | Ireland | 568,495.00 | 2019 |
| 106 | Kyrgyz Republic | 565,711.00 | 2020 |
| 107 | Switzerland | 521,087.00 | 2019 |
| 108 | Lebanon | 517,092.00 | 2020 |
| 109 | Costa Rica | 492,761.00 | 2020 |
| 110 | Namibia | 490,719.00 | 2018 |
| 111 | United Arab Emirates | 462,333.00 | 2020 |
| 112 | Denmark | 461,874.00 | 2019 |
| 113 | Somalia | 457,132.00 | 2007 |
| 114 | Norway | 448,655.00 | 2019 |
| 115 | Belarus | 427,752.00 | 2018 |
| 116 | Panama | 421,965.00 | 2020 |
| 117 | The Gambia | 393,057.00 | 2020 |
| 118 | New Zealand | 387,996.00 | 2019 |
| 119 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 377,202.00 | 2020 |
| 120 | Finland | 371,103.00 | 2019 |
| 121 | Lesotho | 367,931.00 | 2017 |
| 122 | Hungary | 364,424.00 | 2019 |
| 123 | Eritrea | 349,753.00 | 2018 |
| 124 | Botswana | 344,618.00 | 2015 |
| 125 | Austria | 342,064.00 | 2019 |
| 126 | Mongolia | 327,019.00 | 2019 |
| 127 | Georgia | 325,016.00 | 2020 |
| 128 | Gabon | 317,946.00 | 2011 |
| 129 | Oman | 303,890.00 | 2020 |
| 130 | Uruguay | 292,536.00 | 2019 |
| 131 | Kuwait | 278,958.00 | 2020 |
| 132 | Guinea-Bissau | 278,890.00 | 2010 |
| 133 | Serbia | 259,112.00 | 2020 |
| 134 | Bulgaria | 256,857.00 | 2019 |
| 135 | Eswatini | 236,002.00 | 2019 |
| 136 | Singapore | 234,947.00 | 2019 |
| 137 | Slovak Republic | 231,720.00 | 2019 |
| 138 | Jamaica | 220,074.00 | 2020 |
| 139 | Puerto Rico | 208,544.00 | 2018 |
| 140 | Timor-Leste | 206,512.00 | 2019 |
| 141 | Qatar | 163,661.00 | 2020 |
| 142 | Albania | 162,170.00 | 2020 |
| 143 | Croatia | 159,336.00 | 2019 |
| 144 | Armenia | 154,905.00 | 2020 |
| 145 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 152,333.00 | 2020 |
| 146 | Moldova | 139,179.00 | 2020 |
| 147 | Slovenia | 132,551.00 | 2019 |
| 148 | Trinidad and Tobago | 131,350.00 | 2010 |
| 149 | Comoros | 124,240.00 | 2018 |
| 150 | Fiji | 121,666.00 | 2019 |
| 151 | Latvia | 120,787.00 | 2019 |
| 152 | Lithuania | 117,676.00 | 2019 |
| 153 | Bahrain | 115,819.00 | 2019 |
| 154 | North Macedonia | 109,818.00 | 2018 |
| 155 | Solomon Islands | 107,118.00 | 2019 |
| 156 | Guyana | 94,488.00 | 2012 |
| 157 | Bhutan | 94,165.00 | 2020 |
| 158 | Equatorial Guinea | 93,396.00 | 2015 |
| 159 | Estonia | 89,618.00 | 2019 |
| 160 | Mauritius | 82,514.00 | 2021 |
| 161 | Djibouti | 70,324.00 | 2021 |
| 162 | Suriname | 68,147.00 | 2019 |
| 163 | Cabo Verde | 62,596.00 | 2019 |
| 164 | Cyprus | 58,473.00 | 2019 |
| 165 | Vanuatu | 56,390.00 | 2020 |
| 166 | Belize | 49,449.00 | 2020 |
| 167 | Brunei | 39,649.00 | 2020 |
| 168 | Luxembourg | 39,146.00 | 2019 |
| 169 | Montenegro | 38,822.00 | 2020 |
| 170 | São Tomé and Principe | 37,172.00 | 2017 |
| 171 | Macao SAR, China | 33,961.00 | 2020 |
| 172 | Samoa | 33,950.00 | 2020 |
| 173 | Iceland | 32,811.00 | 2019 |
| 174 | The Bahamas | 29,504.00 | 2018 |
| 175 | Malta | 26,788.00 | 2019 |
| 176 | New Caledonia | 22,308.00 | 1994 |
| 177 | Barbados | 19,242.00 | 2020 |
| 178 | Kiribati | 18,404.00 | 2020 |
| 179 | Tonga | 17,056.00 | 2020 |
| 180 | St. Lucia | 15,478.00 | 2020 |
| 181 | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 13,198.00 | 2018 |
| 182 | Grenada | 13,195.00 | 2018 |
| 183 | Antigua and Barbuda | 10,123.00 | 2018 |
| 184 | Seychelles | 9,509.00 | 2020 |
| 185 | Dominica | 6,185.00 | 2020 |
| 186 | St. Kitts and Nevis | 5,452.00 | 2016 |
| 187 | Cayman Islands | 4,534.00 | 2020 |
| 188 | Andorra | 4,246.00 | 2020 |
| 189 | Liechtenstein | 1,979.00 | 2019 |
| 190 | Monaco | 1,932.00 | 2021 |
| 191 | San Marino | 1,603.00 | 2020 |
| 192 | Palau | 1,523.00 | 2020 |
| 193 | Nauru | 1,475.00 | 2020 |
| 194 | Tuvalu | 1,340.00 | 2020 |
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Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).
Statistical Concept and Methodology: Enrollment includes Individuals officially registered in a given educational programme, or stage or module thereof, regardless of age. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).
Aggregation method: Sum
Periodicity: Annual
