Saudi Arabia - Primary education, pupils

The value for Primary education, pupils in Saudi Arabia was 3,432,102 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 41 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,737,083 in 2014 and a minimum value of 797,785 in 1979.

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/)

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Year Value
1979 797,785
2005 3,097,604
2007 3,173,807
2008 3,211,387
2009 3,255,243
2010 3,321,066
2011 3,347,680
2012 3,436,259
2013 3,635,779
2014 3,737,083
2015 3,494,490
2016 3,357,365
2017 3,230,001
2018 3,298,788
2019 3,390,589
2020 3,432,102

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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Participation