Botswana vs Eswatini: Lower secondary school starting age

Botswana
13 years
in 2025
Eswatini
13 years
in 2025
Botswana rank
5th
Eswatini rank
5th

Lower secondary school starting age over time

  • Botswana
  • Eswatini
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How they compare

Botswana currently reports 13 years against 13 years in Eswatini, a difference of 0 years.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 56 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Botswana ahead.

Globally, Botswana ranks 5th and Eswatini ranks 5th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Lower secondary school starting age (years)
Unit
years
Source
Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
209 places, 11,411 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

Lower secondary school starting age is the age at which students would enter lower 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.