Entrance age, secondary - Secondary - Education Statistics

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

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Entrance age, secondary - Secondary - Education Statistics

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