Kazakhstan's primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) was 98.09% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.89 percentage points from 93.2% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 98.09% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 97.82% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 93.2% | 2015 |
| Highest | 103.83% | 2011 |
| Lowest | 91.74% | 1998 |
| Average since 2016 | 96.87% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 96.2% | 1994 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Kazakhstan's primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) rose 3.68 percentage points on 2024 (from 94.4% to 98.09%).
Across the 26 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.87 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 8.67 percentage points in 2024. 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 21% 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.
How it compares
In 2025, Kazakhstan had the 5th highest value of the 11 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | 98.09% | 2025 |
| World | 88.02% | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 98.13% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 95.17% | 2023 |
Closest to Kazakhstan in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Primary completion rate, or gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, is the number of new entrants (enrollments minus repeaters) in the last grade of primary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education. Data limitations preclude adjusting for students who drop out during the final year of primary education.
Limitations: The data do not account for students who drop out during the final year of primary education. Therefore, this rate serves as a proxy and should be considered an upper estimate of the actual primary completion rate. There are many reasons why the primary completion rate can exceed 100 percent. The numerator may include late entrants and overage children who have repeated one or more grades of primary education as well as children who entered school early, while the denominator is the number of children at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 30 values
| Year | Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 98.09 |
| 2024 | 94.4 |
| 2023 | 103.07 |
| 2022 | 100.53 |
| 2021 | 93.65 |
| 2020 | 97.82 |
| 2019 | 95.55 |
| 2018 | 97.29 |
| 2017 | 94.96 |
| 2016 | 93.33 |
| 2015 |
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies
- Albania — 107.35% (2024)
- Andorra — 67.35% (2024)
- Armenia — 98.21% (2024)
- Austria — 96.74% (2024)
- Azerbaijan — 97.2% (2024)
- Belarus — 95.77% (2024)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 100.52% (2023)
- Bulgaria — 94.58% (2024)
- Croatia — 100.52% (2023)
More education data for Kazakhstan
- Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 4 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 10 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
- Primary education, pupils — 1.58 million (2025)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 97.33% (2025)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 96.2% (2025)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 98.43% (2025)
- Primary education, teachers — 113,317 (2025)
- Primary education, teachers (% female)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Kazakhstan's primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)?
- 98.09% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1994?
- It is up 1.88 percentage points from 96.2% in 1994. The highest value was 103.83% in 2011 and the lowest 91.74% in 1998.
- How does Kazakhstan rank?
- 5th highest of 11 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) unusual for Kazakhstan?
- In 2025, Kazakhstan's primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) rose 3.68 percentage points on 2024 (from 94.4% to 98.09%). Across the 26 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.7 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS, 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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