What is Nepal's over-age students, primary (% of enrollment)?

27.96% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1988?

It is up 7.26 percentage points from 20.7% in 1988. The highest value was 39.61% in 2000 and the lowest 20.7% in 1988.

Nepal, 2019: 27.96% — Over-age students, primary (% of enrollment)

Nepal's over-age students, primary (% of enrollment) was 27.96% in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 0.2 percentage points from 28.17% in 2014.

Over-age students, primary (% of enrollment), Nepal, 1988–2019. Source: World Bank.

Key figures

	Value	Year
Latest	27.96%	2019
Five years earlier	28.17%	2014
Highest	39.61%	2000
Lowest	20.7%	1988
Average since 2011	28.44%	2011–2019
First recorded	20.7%	1988

Over five years it is down 0.2 percentage points from 28.17% in 2014. Since 1988 it is up 7.26 percentage points from 20.7% in 1988. The World Bank has no value for 20 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

Closest to Nepal in the 2019 ranking

Djibouti — 2nd of 3: 11.29%
Kazakhstan — 3rd of 3: 0.66%

What this measures

Over-age students are the percentage of those enrolled who are older than the official school-age range for primary education.

All 12 values

Year	Over-age students, primary (% of enrollment)
2019	27.96
2018	no data
2017	28.52
2016	27.72
2015	27.27
2014	28.17
2013	no data
2012	28.65
2011	30.81
2010	no data
2009

Over-age students, primary (% of enrollment) in nearby economies

Bhutan — 11.54% (2018)
Maldives — 1.58% (2017)
Sri Lanka — 0.95% (2018)

More education data for Nepal

Primary education, pupils — 3.57 million (2025)
Primary education, teachers — 157,456 (2025)
Secondary education, pupils — 3.67 million (2024)
Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
Primary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 10 (2025)
Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
Primary education, pupils (% female) — 50.61% (2019)
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary — 19.74 (2019)
Secondary education, teachers — 124,257 (2025)
School enrollment, primary (% gross)

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Questions people ask

What is Nepal's over-age students, primary (% of enrollment)?: 27.96% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
How has it changed since 1988?: It is up 7.26 percentage points from 20.7% in 1988. The highest value was 39.61% in 2000 and the lowest 20.7% in 1988.
Where does this data come from?: The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.PRM.OENR.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 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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