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South Africa: School age population, early childhood education, both sexes

8.19Mcount · 2025+3.1% since 2015

School age population, early childhood education, both sexes (number). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator SAP.0. Annual figures for South Africa from 2000 to 2025.

20002025

Every year

YearValue (count)Note
20258,189,046
20248,092,193
20237,977,533
20227,848,679
20217,717,570
20207,694,143
20197,740,405
20187,821,456
20177,922,931
20167,964,354
20157,942,608
20147,858,779
20137,843,742
20127,777,541
20117,658,774
20107,516,047
20097,330,951
20087,100,919
20076,954,455
20066,856,912
20056,805,579
20046,816,832
20036,917,746
20027,075,130
20017,192,879
20007,360,049

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). School age population, early childhood education, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-sap-0 (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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