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South Africa: School age population, early childhood educational development programmes, both sexes

3.48Mcount · 2025+0.5% since 2015

School age population, early childhood educational development programmes, both sexes (number). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator SAP.01. Annual figures for South Africa from 2000 to 2025.

20002025

Every year

YearValue (count)Note
20253,479,460
20243,555,649
20233,591,959
20223,601,789
20213,482,170
20203,392,076
20193,332,872
20183,353,988
20173,450,353
20163,499,226
20153,463,168
20143,398,542
20133,394,416
20123,387,378
20113,435,711
20103,426,179
20093,393,479
20083,272,575
20073,190,185
20063,072,874
20052,958,612
20042,890,278
20032,874,538
20022,925,603
20012,979,660
20003,053,384

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 educational development programmes, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-sap-01 (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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