Lower secondary school starting age

Lower secondary school starting age is the age at which students would enter lower secondary education, assuming they had started at the official entrance age for the lowest level of education, had studied full-time throughout and had progressed through the system without repeating or skipping a grade.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
209
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    UNESCO

    Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan202513years
Albania202511years
Algeria202511years
American Samoa202512years
Andorra202512years
Angola202512years
Antigua and Barbuda202512years
Argentina202512years
Armenia202510years
Aruba202512years

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