Official Entrance Age To Upper Secondary Education (years) By Country

This page has a list of countries by Official entrance age to upper secondary education (years), according to officially-recognized international sources compiled by the World Bank. Age at which students would enter upper 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.

Aruba
14 years

Afghanistan
16 years

Angola
15 years

Albania
15 years

Andorra
16 years

United Arab Emirates
15 years

Argentina
15 years

Armenia
15 years

American Samoa
16 years

Antigua and Barbuda
15 years

Australia
16 years

Austria
14 years

Azerbaijan
15 years

Burundi
17 years

Belgium
14 years

Benin
16 years

Burkina Faso
16 years

Bangladesh
14 years

Bulgaria
15 years

Bahrain
15 years

Bahamas
14 years

Bosnia and Herzegovina
15 years

Belarus
15 years

Belize
15 years

Bermuda
14 years

Bolivia
14 years

Brazil
15 years

Barbados
14 years

Brunei
14 years

Bhutan
17 years

Botswana
16 years

Central African Republic
16 years

Canada
15 years

Switzerland
16 years

Chile
14 years

China
15 years

Ivory Coast
16 years

Cameroon
16 years

Congo
14 years

Republic Of The Congo
16 years

Colombia
15 years

Comoros
16 years

Cape Verde
15 years

Costa Rica
15 years

Cuba
15 years

Curacao
14 years

Cayman Islands
14 years

Cyprus
15 years

Czech Republic
15 years

Germany
16 years

Djibouti
15 years

Dominica
15 years

Denmark
16 years

Dominican Republic
14 years

Algeria
15 years

Ecuador
15 years

Egypt
15 years

Eritrea
14 years

Spain
15 years

Estonia
16 years

Ethiopia
17 years

Finland
16 years

Fiji
16 years

France
15 years

Micronesia
14 years

Gabon
15 years

United Kingdom
14 years

Georgia
15 years

Ghana
15 years

Gibraltar
13 years

Guinea
17 years

Gambia
16 years

Guinea Bissau
15 years

Equatorial Guinea
17 years

Greece
15 years

Grenada
15 years

Guatemala
16 years

Guyana
15 years

Hong Kong
15 years

Honduras
15 years

Croatia
15 years

Haiti
15 years

Hungary
15 years

Indonesia
16 years

India
14 years

Ireland
16 years

Iran
14 years

Iraq
15 years

Iceland
16 years

Israel
15 years

Italy
14 years

Jamaica
15 years

Jordan
16 years

Japan
15 years

Kazakhstan
15 years

Kenya
14 years

Kyrgyzstan
16 years

Cambodia
15 years

Kiribati
15 years

South Korea
15 years

Kuwait
15 years

Laos
15 years

Lebanon
15 years

Liberia
15 years

Libya
15 years

St Lucia
15 years

Liechtenstein
16 years

Sri Lanka
14 years

Lesotho
16 years

Lithuania
17 years

Luxembourg
15 years

Latvia
16 years

Macau
15 years

Morocco
15 years

Monaco
15 years

Moldova
16 years

Madagascar
15 years

Maldives
16 years

Mexico
15 years

Marshall Islands
16 years

Macedonia
15 years

Mali
16 years

Malta
14 years

Myanmar
14 years

Montenegro
15 years

Mongolia
15 years

Mozambique
16 years

Mauritania
16 years

Mauritius
14 years

Malawi
16 years

Malaysia
15 years

Namibia
17 years

New Caledonia
15 years

Niger
17 years

Nigeria
15 years

Nicaragua
15 years

Netherlands
15 years

Norway
16 years

Nepal
13 years

New Zealand
15 years

Oman
16 years

Pakistan
13 years

Panama
15 years

Peru
15 years

Philippines
16 years

Palau
14 years

Papua New Guinea
15 years

Poland
16 years

Puerto Rico
15 years

North Korea
15 years

Portugal
15 years

Paraguay
15 years

Palestine
15 years

French Polynesia
15 years

Qatar
15 years

Romania
15 years

Russia
16 years

Rwanda
16 years

Saudi Arabia
15 years

Sudan
15 years

Senegal
16 years

Singapore
14 years

Solomon Islands
15 years

Sierra Leone
15 years

El Salvador
16 years

San Marino
14 years

Somalia
14 years

Serbia
15 years

South Sudan
14 years

Sao Tome and Principe
15 years

Suriname
16 years

Slovakia
15 years

Slovenia
15 years

Sweden
16 years

Swaziland
16 years

Saint Maarten
14 years

Seychelles
15 years

Syria
15 years

Chad
16 years

Togo
16 years

Thailand
15 years

Tajikistan
16 years

Turkmenistan
16 years

East Timor
15 years

Tonga
17 years

Trinidad and Tobago
15 years

Tunisia
15 years

Turkey
14 years

Tuvalu
16 years

Tanzania
18 years

Uganda
17 years

Ukraine
15 years

Uruguay
15 years

United States
15 years

Uzbekistan
16 years

St Vincent and the Grenadines
15 years

Venezuela
15 years

British Virgin Islands
15 years

Virgin Islands
15 years

Vietnam
15 years

Vanuatu
16 years

Samoa
13 years

Yemen
15 years

South Africa
16 years

Zambia
16 years

Zimbabwe
15 years