Countries With the Lowest Primary Enrollment

Every country with a figure for primary enrollment, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Somalia, Fed. Rep. (20.9%), Equatorial Guinea (47.5%) and Niger (64.7%). The middle country of the 202 has 100%.

What this measures

School enrollment, primary (% gross). Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. For this measure, higher is better.

Gross enrolment can be over 100% because it counts pupils older or younger than the usual age. A value above 100 is not an error, and it does not mean every child is enrolled.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2010–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on primary enrollment

• Countries With the Highest Primary Enrollment
• Primary enrollment by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest PISA Maths
• Countries With the Lowest PISA Reading
• Countries With the Lowest PISA Science
• Countries With the Lowest Primary Completion
• Countries With the Lowest Expected Schooling
• Countries With the Lowest Mean Years of Schooling
• Countries With the Lowest Education Spending
• Countries With the Lowest Secondary Enrollment

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.