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South Africa: Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, both sexes
4.85percent · 2021
Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, both sexes (household survey data) (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator OAEPG.H.2. Annual figures for South Africa from 2016 to 2021.
Every year
| Year | Value (percent) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4.848 | |
| 2020 | 6.511 | |
| 2016 | 11.895 |
Source
Published by UIS, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-08.
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UIS (2026). Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-oaepg-h-2 (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.
Percentage of pupils enrolled in lower secondary education who are at least 2 years over-age for their current grade, both sexes in other countries
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Palestine, State of
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
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- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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