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Education Statistics > Duration of compulsory education (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
= 1   Germany: 13 years 
= 1   Saint Kitts and Nevis: 13 years 
= 1   Dominica: 13 years 
= 1   Netherlands: 13 years 
= 1   Saint Lucia: 13 years 
= 1   Belgium: 13 years 
= 7   New Zealand: 12 years 
= 7   Brunei: 12 years 
= 7   Barbados: 12 years 
= 7   Bahamas, The: 12 years 
= 7   Bermuda: 12 years 
= 7   Grenada: 12 years 
= 7   Antigua and Barbuda: 12 years 
= 7   United Kingdom: 12 years 
= 7   United States: 12 years 
= 16   Spain: 11 years 
= 16   Armenia: 11 years 
= 16   Moldova: 11 years 
= 16   Australia: 11 years 
= 16   Israel: 11 years 
= 16   Bhutan: 11 years 
= 16   Norway: 11 years 
= 16   Canada: 11 years 
= 16   Iceland: 11 years 
= 16   France: 11 years 
= 16   Kazakhstan: 11 years 
= 16   Gabon: 11 years 
= 16   Malta: 11 years 
= 16   Guatemala: 11 years 
= 16   Peru: 11 years 
= 16   Azerbaijan: 11 years 
= 16   Tunisia: 11 years 
= 16   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 11 years 
= 34   Togo: 10 years 
= 34   Monaco: 10 years 
= 34   Costa Rica: 10 years 
= 34   Uruguay: 10 years 
= 34   Denmark: 10 years 
= 34   Puerto Rico: 10 years 
= 34   Dominican Republic: 10 years 
= 34   Kiribati: 10 years 
= 34   Ecuador: 10 years 
= 34   Luxembourg: 10 years 
= 34   Ireland: 10 years 
= 34   New Caledonia: 10 years 
= 34   Czech Republic: 10 years 
= 34   Seychelles: 10 years 
= 34   Finland: 10 years 
= 34   Samoa: 10 years 
= 34   Fiji: 10 years 
= 34   Lebanon: 10 years 
= 34   French Polynesia: 10 years 
= 34   Slovakia: 10 years 
= 34   Guyana: 10 years 
= 34   Macau: 10 years 
= 34   Hungary: 10 years 
= 34   Mexico: 10 years 
= 34   Cote d'Ivoire: 10 years 
= 34   Netherlands Antilles: 10 years 
= 34   Japan: 10 years 
= 34   Russia: 10 years 
= 34   Jordan: 10 years 
= 34   Sweden: 10 years 
= 34   Kyrgyzstan: 10 years 
= 34   Burkina Faso: 10 years 
= 34   Botswana: 10 years 
= 34   Namibia: 10 years 
= 34   Liberia: 10 years 
= 69   South Africa: 9 years 
= 69   Morocco: 9 years 
= 69   Argentina: 9 years 
= 69   Lithuania: 9 years 
= 69   Austria: 9 years 
= 69   Poland: 9 years 
= 69   Bahrain: 9 years 
= 69   Tonga: 9 years 
= 69   Belize: 9 years 
= 69   Madagascar: 9 years 
= 69   Belarus: 9 years 
= 69   Malaysia: 9 years 
= 69   Sri Lanka: 9 years 
= 69   Papua New Guinea: 9 years 
= 69   China: 9 years 
= 69   Thailand: 9 years 
= 69   Chile: 9 years 
= 69   Algeria: 9 years 
= 69   Cuba: 9 years 
= 69   Libya: 9 years 
= 69   Cyprus: 9 years 
= 69   Mali: 9 years 
= 69   Estonia: 9 years 
= 69   Mauritania: 9 years 
= 69   El Salvador: 9 years 
= 69   Paraguay: 9 years 
= 69   Georgia: 9 years 
= 69   Portugal: 9 years 
= 69   Greece: 9 years 
= 69   Marshall Islands: 9 years 
= 69   Indonesia: 9 years 
= 69   Switzerland: 9 years 
= 69   Italy: 9 years 
= 69   Tajikistan: 9 years 
= 69   Ukraine: 9 years 
= 69   Turkey: 9 years 
= 69   Latvia: 9 years 
= 106   Croatia: 8 years 
= 106   Bolivia: 8 years 
= 106   Mongolia: 8 years 
= 106   Brazil: 8 years 
= 106   Kenya: 8 years 
= 106   Bulgaria: 8 years 
= 106   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 8 years 
= 106   Comoros: 8 years 
= 106   India: 8 years 
= 106   Colombia: 8 years 
= 106   Kuwait: 8 years 
= 106   Ghana: 8 years 
= 106   Malawi: 8 years 
= 106   Romania: 8 years 
= 106   Albania: 8 years 
= 106   Somalia: 8 years 
= 106   Sudan: 8 years 
= 123   Vanuatu: 7 years 
= 123   Slovenia: 7 years 
= 123   Trinidad and Tobago: 7 years 
= 123   Eritrea: 7 years 
= 123   Zambia: 7 years 
= 123   Jamaica: 7 years 
= 123   Philippines: 7 years 
= 123   Lesotho: 7 years 
= 123   United Arab Emirates: 7 years 
= 123   Maldives: 7 years 
= 123   Tanzania: 7 years 
= 123   Mozambique: 7 years 
= 123   Swaziland: 7 years 
= 123   Venezuela: 7 years 
= 123   Zimbabwe: 7 years 
= 138   Nicaragua: 6 years 
= 138   Sao Tome and Principe: 6 years 
= 138   Mauritius: 6 years 
= 138   Benin: 6 years 
= 138   Rwanda: 6 years 
= 138   Burundi: 6 years 
= 138   Cambodia: 6 years 
= 138   Nigeria: 6 years 
= 138   Chad: 6 years 
= 138   Guinea-Bissau: 6 years 
= 138   Cameroon: 6 years 
= 138   Senegal: 6 years 
= 138   Central African Republic: 6 years 
= 138   Iraq: 6 years 
= 138   Cape Verde: 6 years 
= 138   Niger: 6 years 
= 138   Djibouti: 6 years 
= 138   Suriname: 6 years 
= 138   Ethiopia: 6 years 
= 138   Panama: 6 years 
= 138   Guinea: 6 years 
= 138   Qatar: 6 years 
= 138   Haiti: 6 years 
= 138   Saudi Arabia: 6 years 
= 138   Honduras: 6 years 
= 138   Syria: 6 years 
= 138   Afghanistan: 6 years 
= 165   Bangladesh: 5 years 
= 165   Burma: 5 years 
= 165   Vietnam: 5 years 
= 165   Equatorial Guinea: 5 years 
= 165   Pakistan: 5 years 
= 165   Nepal: 5 years 
# 171   Angola: 4 years 
Weighted average: 8.8 years  



DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.

SOURCE: UNESCO

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COMMENTARY     

Anthony
4th May 2009 		You are wrong about the United States, my friend.
Edria Murray, Staff editor
26th March 2005 		Education is one of the criteria for determining the United Nations HDI (Human Development Index)



For most contries the current number of years of compulsory education is higher than the average years of schooling for adults. This is primarily due to increases in the duration of compulsory education.


This difference is most pronounced in developing nations where compulsory schooling has only recently been introduced, such as Mali, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. Despite the move towards compulsory education, many developing nations still have a low proportion of primary school age children, especially girls, who are enrolled at any school.

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