Secondary school starting age (years) - Inputs - Education - World Development Indicators

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Secondary school starting age is the age at which students would enter 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.

Rank	Country	Value
Secondary school starting age (years) - Inputs - Education - World Development Indicators (2009)
1	Namibia	14
2	Zambia	14
3	South Africa	14
4	Tanzania	14
5	Guinea	13
6	Gambia	13
7	Guinea-Bissau	13
8	Sweden	13
9	Niger	13
10	Sao Tome and Principe	13
11	El Salvador	13
12	Senegal	13
13	Rwanda	13
14	Denmark	13
15	Burundi	13
16	Mozambique	13
17	Burkina Faso	13
18	Guatemala	13
19	Lesotho	13
20	Iceland	13
21	Estonia	13
22	Swaziland	13
23	Indonesia	13
24	Ethiopia	13
25	Finland	13
26	Uganda	13
27	Afghanistan	13
28	Bhutan	13
29	Botswana	13
30	Honduras	13
31	Zimbabwe	13
32	Switzerland	13
33	Papua New Guinea	13
34	Maldives	13
35	Poland	13
36	Norway	13
37	Aruba	12
38	Andorra	12
39	Trinidad and Tobago	12
40	Tunisia	12
41	Netherlands Antilles	12
42	Turkey	12
43	Argentina	12
44	Uruguay	12
45	Antigua and Barbuda	12
46	Australia	12
47	United States	12
48	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	12
49	Belgium	12
50	Benin	12
51	Venezuela	12
52	Vanuatu	12
53	Yemen	12
54	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12
55	Dominica	12
56	Bolivia	12
57	Central African Republic	12
58	Canada	12
59	Chile	12
60	China	12
61	Ivory Coast	12
62	Republic of the Congo	12
63	Comoros	12
64	Cape Verde	12
65	Costa Rica	12
66	Cuba	12
67	Cyprus	12
68	Dominican Republic	12
69	Algeria	12
70	Egypt	12
71	Eritrea	12
72	Spain	12
73	Fiji	12
74	Micronesia	12
75	Gabon	12
76	Georgia	12
77	Ghana	12
78	Equatorial Guinea	12
79	Greece	12
80	Grenada	12
81	Guyana	12
82	Hong Kong	12
83	Haiti	12
84	Ireland	12
85	Iraq	12
86	Israel	12
87	Jamaica	12
88	Jordan	12
89	Japan	12
90	Kenya	12
91	Cambodia	12
92	Kiribati	12
93	St. Kitts and Nevis	12
94	North Korea	12
95	South Korea	12
96	Liberia	12
97	Libya	12
98	St. Lucia	12
99	Luxembourg	12
100	Macau	12
101	Morocco	12
102	Mexico	12
103	Marshall Islands	12
104	Mongolia	12
105	Mauritania	12
106	Malawi	12
107	Malaysia	12
108	Nigeria	12
109	Nicaragua	12
110	Netherlands	12
111	Oman	12
112	Panama	12
113	Peru	12
114	Philippines	12
115	Portugal	12
116	Paraguay	12
117	Saudi Arabia	12
118	Sudan	12
119	Solomon Islands	12
120	Sierra Leone	12
121	Somalia	12
122	Suriname	12
123	Seychelles	12
124	Syria	12
125	Chad	12
126	Togo	12
127	Thailand	12
128	Qatar	12
129	Timor-Leste	12
130	Bulgaria	11
131	Croatia	11
132	United Arab Emirates	11
133	Kyrgyzstan	11
134	Uzbekistan	11
135	Macedonia	11
136	Bangladesh	11
137	Bermuda	11
138	Bahamas	11
139	Palau	11
140	Vietnam	11
141	France	11
142	Romania	11
143	Tajikistan	11
144	Samoa	11
145	Lithuania	11
146	Italy	11
147	Djibouti	11
148	Laos	11
149	Mauritius	11
150	United Kingdom	11
151	San Marino	11
152	Latvia	11
153	Czech Republic	11
154	Belize	11
155	Malta	11
156	Slovenia	11
157	Cayman Islands	11
158	Colombia	11
159	Iran	11
160	India	11
161	Liechtenstein	11
162	Monaco	11
163	Moldova	11
164	Hungary	11
165	Tonga	11
166	New Zealand	11
167	Kazakhstan	11
168	Barbados	11
169	Brazil	11
170	Albania	10
171	Armenia	10
172	Austria	10
173	Azerbaijan	10
174	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10
175	Burma	10
176	Russia	10
177	Angola	10
178	Germany	10
179	Kuwait	10
180	Slovakia	10
181	West Bank and Gaza	10
182	Pakistan	10
183	Sri Lanka	10
184	Nepal	10
185	Turkmenistan	10
186	Belarus	10
187	Ukraine	10

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