FACTOID # 10: Kids in Mali spend only 2 years in school. More than half of them start working between the ages of 10 and 14.
 
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Education Statistics > Duration of education > Primary level (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
= 1   Puerto Rico:
= 1   Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
= 3   Saint Lucia:
= 3   Antigua and Barbuda:
= 3   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
= 3   Australia:
= 3   South Africa:
= 3   Botswana:
= 3   Tanzania:
= 3   Norway:
= 3   Swaziland:
= 3   Bhutan:
= 3   Dominica:
= 3   Saint Kitts and Nevis:
= 3   Grenada:
= 3   Somalia:
= 3   Iceland:
= 3   Trinidad and Tobago:
= 3   Kenya:
= 3   Uganda:
= 3   Lesotho:
= 3   Namibia:
= 3   Maldives:
= 3   Zambia:
= 3   Zimbabwe:
= 26   Macau:
= 26   Saudi Arabia:
= 26   New Zealand:
= 26   Singapore:
= 26   Panama:
= 26   Syria:
= 26   Kiribati:
= 26   Tonga:
= 26   Mauritania:
= 26   Turkey:
= 26   Netherlands:
= 26   Uruguay:
= 26   Qatar:
= 26   Guinea:
= 26   Luxembourg:
= 26   Haiti:
= 26   Morocco:
= 26   Indonesia:
= 26   Oman:
= 26   Israel:
= 26   Vanuatu:
= 26   Iraq:
= 26   Netherlands Antilles:
= 26   Jamaica:
= 26   Peru:
= 26   Aruba:
= 26   Papua New Guinea:
= 26   Afghanistan:
= 26   Philippines:
= 26   Algeria:
= 26   Senegal:
= 26   Argentina:
= 26   Sudan:
= 26   Bahrain:
= 26   United Arab Emirates:
= 26   Barbados:
= 26   Sao Tome and Principe:
= 26   Bermuda:
= 26   United States:
= 26   Belgium:
= 26   Samoa:
= 26   Bahamas, The:
= 26   Guyana:
= 26   Belize:
= 26   Honduras:
= 26   Bolivia:
= 26   India:
= 26   Benin:
= 26   Cote d'Ivoire:
= 26   Solomon Islands:
= 26   Japan:
= 26   Brunei:
= 26   Jordan:
= 26   Burundi:
= 26   Liberia:
= 26   Canada:
= 26   Libya:
= 26   Cambodia:
= 26   Mali:
= 26   Chad:
= 26   Mauritius:
= 26   China:
= 26   Malta:
= 26   Chile:
= 26   Mexico:
= 26   Cameroon:
= 26   Niger:
= 26   Comoros:
= 26   Nigeria:
= 26   Costa Rica:
= 26   Suriname:
= 26   Central African Republic:
= 26   Nicaragua:
= 26   Cuba:
= 26   Paraguay:
= 26   Cape Verde:
= 26   Poland:
= 26   Cyprus:
= 26   Portugal:
= 26   Denmark:
= 26   Guinea-Bissau:
= 26   Djibouti:
= 26   Marshall Islands:
= 26   Dominican Republic:
= 26   Rwanda:
= 26   Ecuador:
= 26   Seychelles:
= 26   Ireland:
= 26   Sierra Leone:
= 26   Estonia:
= 26   Spain:
= 26   El Salvador:
= 26   Sweden:
= 26   Finland:
= 26   Switzerland:
= 26   Fiji:
= 26   Thailand:
= 26   Gambia, The:
= 26   Togo:
= 26   Gabon:
= 26   Tunisia:
= 26   Ghana:
= 26   United Kingdom:
= 26   Greece:
= 26   Burkina Faso:
= 26   Guatemala:
= 26   Venezuela:
= 26   Malaysia:
= 134   New Caledonia:
= 134   Lebanon:
= 134   Burma:
= 134   France:
= 134   Sri Lanka:
= 134   Monaco:
= 134   Colombia:
= 134   Pakistan:
= 134   Equatorial Guinea:
= 134   Italy:
= 134   Eritrea:
= 134   Madagascar:
= 134   Czech Republic:
= 134   Mozambique:
= 134   French Polynesia:
= 134   Nepal:
= 134   Vietnam:
= 134   Bangladesh:
= 152   Kyrgyzstan:
= 152   Georgia:
= 152   Malawi:
= 152   Lithuania:
= 152   Russia:
= 152   Moldova:
= 152   Tajikistan:
= 152   Kazakhstan:
= 152   Ukraine:
= 152   Ethiopia:
= 152   Croatia:
= 152   Germany:
= 152   Belarus:
= 152   Hungary:
= 152   Brazil:
= 152   Kuwait:
= 152   Bulgaria:
= 152   Latvia:
= 152   Azerbaijan:
= 152   Slovakia:
= 152   Albania:
= 152   Mongolia:
= 152   Armenia:
= 152   Romania:
= 152   Angola:
= 152   Slovenia:
= 152   Austria:
= 152   Turkmenistan:
= 152   Bosnia and Herzegovina:
= 152   Uzbekistan:
Weighted average: 5.7  



DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.

SOURCE: UNESCO

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COMMENTARY     

jjj
20th May 2009
The information for Croatia is wrong - primary education, which is compulsory, lasts eight years. See Wikipedia and the sources cited there.
MK
26th October 2005
Interesting how Macedonia ranks far above 'fully developed' nations. Maybe one may realize that you don't have to be rich to be smart or successful.
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