Lower secondary school starting age in Ukraine
Ukraine: Lower secondary school starting age was 10 years in 2025. ▬ Flat
Lower secondary school starting age in Ukraine, 1970–2025
Source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Measured in years.
Analysis
Ukraine recorded 10 years for lower secondary school starting age in 2025. That is the highest value across all 56 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, lower secondary school starting age in Ukraine peaked at 10 years in 1970 and was at its lowest, 10 years, in 1970.
That places Ukraine 192nd out of 209 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 10 |
| 1980s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 10 |
| 2000s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 10 |
| 2010s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 10 |
| 2020s | 10 years | 10 years | 10 years | 6 |
Countries ranked near Ukraine
- 192 Armenia 10 years compare
- 192 Austria 10 years compare
- 192 Azerbaijan 10 years compare
- 192 Belarus 10 years compare
- 192 Germany 10 years compare
- 192 Kazakhstan 10 years compare
- 192 Myanmar 10 years compare
- 192 Nepal 10 years compare
- 192 Oman 10 years compare
- 192 Pakistan 10 years compare
- 192 Slovakia 10 years compare
- 192 Somalia 10 years compare
- 192 Sri Lanka 10 years compare
- 192 Turkey 10 years compare
- 192 Turkmenistan 10 years compare
- 192 United Arab Emirates 10 years compare
- 192 Palestine 10 years compare
More education data for Ukraine
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 67.3% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 13.7% (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 93.3% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 105,694 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 94.1% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male 92.6% (2024)
- Labor force, female 47.4% (2021)
- Labor force, total 20.54 million (2021)
- School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index 1.02 GPI (2014)
Frequently asked questions
- What is lower secondary school starting age in Ukraine?
- Lower secondary school starting age in Ukraine was 10 years in 2025, according to Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
- What is the highest lower secondary school starting age recorded in Ukraine?
- The highest recorded value was 10 years in 1970.
- What is the lowest lower secondary school starting age recorded in Ukraine?
- The lowest recorded value was 10 years in 1970.
- How does Ukraine rank for lower secondary school starting age?
- Ukraine ranks 192nd out of 209 countries with data for 2025.
- Is lower secondary school starting age rising or falling in Ukraine?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Ukraine data come from?
- The figures come from Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), published as part of Lower secondary school starting age (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.