Student enrollment, primary, total - Primary - Education Statistics

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Primary education pupils is the total number of pupils enrolled at primary level in public and private schools.

Rank	Country	Value
Student enrollment, primary, total - Primary - Education Statistics (2008)
1	Low & middle income	622,554,477
2	Middle income	487,208,417
3	Lower middle income	403,540,515
4	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	175,695,902
5	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	133,291,007
6	Low income	124,076,054
7	China	105,950,505
8	Upper middle income	98,220,366
9	High income	73,783,125
10	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	67,472,247
11	High income: OECD	65,064,886
12	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	38,889,655
13	Indonesia	29,498,266
14	United States	24,676,574
15	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	21,255,262
16	Pakistan	18,175,801
17	Brazil	17,812,436
18	Bangladesh	16,001,605
19	Mexico	14,699,146
20	Philippines	13,411,286
21	Ethiopia	12,741,814
22	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9,973,365
23	Tanzania	8,601,814
24	Uganda	7,963,979
25	Japan	7,166,285
26	Iran	7,027,775
27	Vietnam	6,871,795
28	Kenya	6,868,810
29	Turkey	6,760,145
30	Thailand	5,564,622
31	Colombia	5,285,523
32	Burma	5,109,630
33	Russia	4,968,710
34	Mozambique	4,904,434
35	Afghanistan	4,887,523
36	United Kingdom	4,465,021
37	Nepal	4,418,713
38	Sudan	4,351,957
39	France	4,139,284
40	Madagascar	4,020,322
41	Algeria	3,942,242
42	Angola	3,931,583
43	Morocco	3,878,640
44	Peru	3,854,764
45	South Korea	3,679,629
46	North Korea	3,679,629
47	Ghana	3,625,178
48	Venezuela	3,439,199
49	Yemen	3,282,457
50	Germany	3,236,158
51	Saudi Arabia	3,211,387
52	Cameroon	3,201,477
53	Malawi	3,197,928
54	Zambia	2,909,436
55	Spain	2,625,414
56	Guatemala	2,500,575
57	Syria	2,356,403
58	Ivory Coast	2,356,240
59	Cambodia	2,340,606
60	Rwanda	2,190,270
61	Uzbekistan	2,071,317
62	Ecuador	2,040,617
63	Australia	1,977,837
64	Mali	1,823,037
65	Burkina Faso	1,742,439
66	Sri Lanka	1,631,430
67	Senegal	1,618,303
68	Burundi	1,603,116
69	Benin	1,601,146
70	Ukraine	1,573,458
71	Chad	1,495,961
72	Niger	1,389,194
73	Guinea	1,364,491
74	Dominican Republic	1,305,661
75	Netherlands	1,285,543
76	Honduras	1,276,495
77	Tunisia	1,036,445
78	El Salvador	993,795
79	Kazakhstan	956,019
80	Nicaragua	944,341
81	Laos	900,817
82	Cuba	871,444
83	Romania	865,175
84	Israel	841,394
85	Jordan	817,160
86	Belgium	733,052
87	Tajikistan	692,247
88	Republic of the Congo	628,081
89	Sweden	584,726
90	Central African Republic	584,078
91	Liberia	539,887
92	Costa Rica	534,816
93	Switzerland	505,382
94	Azerbaijan	496,697
95	Ireland	486,921
96	Mauritania	473,688
97	Lebanon	467,311
98	Czech Republic	459,899
99	Panama	445,107
100	Norway	429,585
101	Namibia	407,402
102	Kyrgyzstan	399,833
103	Hungary	394,246
104	West Bank and Gaza	390,051
105	Hong Kong	389,937
106	Belarus	362,377
107	Finland	357,403
108	New Zealand	348,160
109	Austria	337,448
110	Jamaica	315,129
111	Eritrea	314,034
112	Georgia	311,265
113	Singapore	299,704
114	Serbia	289,785
115	Oman	271,407
116	Bulgaria	262,701
117	Mongolia	239,663
118	Slovakia	224,769
119	Gambia	220,931
120	Kuwait	208,608
121	Timor-Leste	201,264
122	Bosnia and Herzegovina	181,917
123	Moldova	151,736
124	Lithuania	135,719
125	Trinidad and Tobago	130,880
126	Armenia	121,841
127	Mauritius	119,022
128	Latvia	117,129
129	Comoros	111,115
130	Guyana	107,456
131	Slovenia	107,295
132	Bhutan	106,100
133	Fiji	102,543
134	Bahrain	86,084
135	Qatar	78,123
136	Cape Verde	76,299
137	Estonia	74,629
138	Suriname	69,604
139	Cyprus	56,799
140	Djibouti	56,395
141	Belize	51,994
142	Maldives	47,082
143	Brunei Darussalam	45,125
144	Bahamas	36,833
145	Luxembourg	35,630
146	Sao Tome and Principe	32,584
147	Macau	30,487
148	Iceland	29,945
149	Barbados	22,849
150	St. Lucia	20,938
151	Kiribati	16,123
152	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	15,532
153	Grenada	13,873
154	Antigua and Barbuda	11,562
155	Aruba	10,012
156	Seychelles	8,744
157	Dominica	8,369
158	St. Kitts and Nevis	6,474
159	Andorra	4,492
160	Cayman Islands	3,736
161	Liechtenstein	2,158
162	Monaco	1,852
163	San Marino	1,573

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