Education · Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
Yearly data from 1999 to 2025, from the World Bank.
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s preprimary education, duration (years) was 5 in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is unchanged at from 5 in 2015.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5 | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 5 | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 5 | 2015 |
| Highest | 5 | 2013 |
| Lowest | 4 | 1999 |
| Average since 2016 | 5 | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 4 | 1999 |
Over five years it is unchanged at from 5 in 2020. Since 1999 it is up 25% from 4 in 1999 (0.86% a year on average, compounded).
In 2025, Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s preprimary education, duration (years) did not change 0 on 2024 (from 5 to 5).
Across the 25 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2024), the average change was +0.04 and a typical year strayed about 0.2 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1 in 2013. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | 5 | 2025 |
| World | 4 | 2025 |
Preprimary duration refers to the number of grades (years) in preprimary school.
Limitations: The presence of national legislation does not guarantee that countries will implement it effectively, nor does it ensure that parents will take advantage of the provisions available for their children.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.
| Year | Preprimary education, duration (years) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2006 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2004 | 4 |
| 2003 | 4 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2001 | 4 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 1999 | 4 |
Every indicator for Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) is on the Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRE.DURS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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