| # | Flag | Country | Primary education, pupilsPrimary education, pupils | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 123,807,888 | 2017 | |
| 2 | China | 99,488,344 | 2017 | |
| 3 | Indonesia | 29,339,176 | 2017 | |
| 4 | United States | 25,019,052 | 2016 | |
| 5 | Pakistan | 21,686,452 | 2017 | |
| 6 | Bangladesh | 17,251,350 | 2017 | |
| 7 | Ethiopia | 16,198,047 | 2015 | |
| 8 | Brazil | 15,442,039 | 2016 | |
| 9 | Philippines | 14,293,635 | 2016 | |
| 10 | Mexico | 14,137,862 | 2017 | |
| 11 | Democratic Republic Of Congo | 13,763,196 | 2015 | |
| 12 | Egypt | 12,037,705 | 2017 | |
| 13 | Tanzania | 9,315,656 | 2017 | |
| 14 | Uganda | 8,840,589 | 2017 | |
| 15 | Nigeria | 8,070,442 | 2015 | |
| 16 | Kenya | 8,018,681 | 2016 | |
| 17 | Vietnam | 7,801,560 | 2017 | |
| 18 | Iran | 7,700,597 | 2017 | |
| 19 | South Africa | 7,509,476 | 2016 | |
| 20 | Japan | 6,581,949 | 2016 | |
| 21 | Afghanistan | 6,358,778 | 2017 | |
| 22 | Russia | 6,198,783 | 2016 | |
| 23 | Mozambique | 6,107,283 | 2017 | |
| 24 | Myanmar | 5,388,349 | 2017 | |
| 25 | Turkey | 5,360,703 | 2016 | |
| 26 | Angola | 5,026,803 | 2011 | |
| 27 | Sudan | 4,899,664 | 2017 | |
| 28 | Iraq | 4,864,350 | 2007 | |
| 29 | Thailand | 4,778,800 | 2017 | |
| 30 | Madagascar | 4,733,726 | 2016 | |
| 31 | United Kingdom | 4,721,647 | 2016 | |
| 32 | Argentina | 4,603,923 | 2016 | |
| 33 | Malawi | 4,433,977 | 2017 | |
| 34 | Ghana | 4,401,194 | 2018 | |
| 35 | Cameroon | 4,371,381 | 2017 | |
| 36 | France | 4,284,172 | 2016 | |
| 37 | Algeria | 4,283,207 | 2017 | |
| 38 | Colombia | 4,249,518 | 2017 | |
| 39 | Morocco | 4,210,676 | 2017 | |
| 40 | Nepal | 4,135,253 | 2017 | |
| 41 | Yemen | 3,900,134 | 2016 | |
| 42 | Ivory Coast | 3,772,136 | 2017 | |
| 43 | Saudi Arabia | 3,678,391 | 2016 | |
| 44 | Peru | 3,559,950 | 2018 | |
| 45 | Zambia | 3,284,841 | 2017 | |
| 46 | Venezuela | 3,281,267 | 2017 | |
| 47 | Malaysia | 3,084,630 | 2017 | |
| 48 | Burkina Faso | 3,040,802 | 2017 | |
| 49 | Spain | 2,947,352 | 2016 | |
| 50 | Germany | 2,895,195 | 2016 | |
| 51 | Italy | 2,805,761 | 2016 | |
| 52 | Niger | 2,768,305 | 2017 | |
| 53 | South Korea | 2,679,462 | 2016 | |
| 54 | Zimbabwe | 2,663,186 | 2013 | |
| 55 | Rwanda | 2,540,374 | 2017 | |
| 56 | Mali | 2,538,502 | 2017 | |
| 57 | Poland | 2,480,777 | 2016 | |
| 58 | Uzbekistan | 2,391,489 | 2017 | |
| 59 | Guatemala | 2,323,999 | 2017 | |
| 60 | Canada | 2,318,914 | 2016 | |
| 61 | Benin | 2,251,555 | 2017 | |
| 62 | Australia | 2,216,779 | 2017 | |
| 63 | Chad | 2,213,223 | 2016 | |
| 64 | Burundi | 2,126,173 | 2017 | |
| 65 | Cambodia | 2,105,565 | 2017 | |
| 66 | Senegal | 2,087,654 | 2017 | |
| 67 | Ecuador | 1,949,817 | 2016 | |
| 68 | Guinea | 1,776,560 | 2016 | |
| 69 | Sri Lanka | 1,746,843 | 2017 | |
| 70 | Ukraine | 1,644,263 | 2017 | |
| 71 | Syria | 1,547,316 | 2013 | |
| 72 | Togo | 1,524,191 | 2017 | |
| 73 | Chile | 1,508,203 | 2017 | |
| 74 | North Korea | 1,507,780 | 2018 | |
| 75 | Sierra Leone | 1,486,939 | 2017 | |
| 76 | Haiti | 1,429,280 | 1997 | |
| 77 | Kazakhstan | 1,406,967 | 2018 | |
| 78 | Bolivia | 1,359,959 | 2017 | |
| 79 | Papua New Guinea | 1,275,085 | 2016 | |
| 80 | Dominican Republic | 1,253,342 | 2017 | |
| 81 | Netherlands | 1,222,867 | 2014 | |
| 82 | South Sudan | 1,156,084 | 2015 | |
| 83 | Tunisia | 1,139,314 | 2016 | |
| 84 | Honduras | 1,117,352 | 2017 | |
| 85 | Jordan | 1,106,611 | 2017 | |
| 86 | Romania | 935,394 | 2016 | |
| 87 | Nicaragua | 923,745 | 2010 | |
| 88 | Israel | 917,118 | 2017 | |
| 89 | Central African Republic | 813,767 | 2016 | |
| 90 | Laos | 808,705 | 2017 | |
| 91 | Belgium | 788,315 | 2016 | |
| 92 | Tajikistan | 771,040 | 2017 | |
| 93 | Libya | 755,338 | 2006 | |
| 94 | Republic of the Congo | 734,493 | 2012 | |
| 95 | Cuba | 720,329 | 2017 | |
| 96 | Paraguay | 707,543 | 2016 | |
| 97 | Liberia | 693,875 | 2016 | |
| 98 | Sweden | 679,569 | 2016 | |
| 99 | El Salvador | 675,540 | 2017 | |
| 100 | Portugal | 648,068 | 2015 | |
| 101 | Greece | 646,577 | 2016 | |
| 102 | Mauritania | 627,085 | 2017 | |
| 103 | Azerbaijan | 607,391 | 2017 | |
| 104 | Czech Republic | 557,455 | 2016 | |
| 105 | Republic of Ireland | 540,955 | 2016 | |
| 106 | Lebanon | 502,505 | 2017 | |
| 107 | Kyrgyzstan | 501,011 | 2017 | |
| 108 | Switzerland | 498,338 | 2016 | |
| 109 | Namibia | 476,360 | 2017 | |
| 110 | Denmark | 471,787 | 2016 | |
| 111 | United Arab Emirates | 465,256 | 2016 | |
| 112 | Costa Rica | 451,675 | 2016 | |
| 113 | Norway | 444,638 | 2017 | |
| 114 | Belarus | 423,001 | 2017 | |
| 115 | Panama | 408,961 | 2016 | |
| 116 | Hungary | 394,204 | 2016 | |
| 117 | New Zealand | 384,251 | 2017 | |
| 118 | Oman | 377,066 | 2017 | |
| 119 | Lesotho | 367,931 | 2017 | |
| 120 | Finland | 359,461 | 2016 | |
| 121 | Hong Kong | 352,469 | 2017 | |
| 122 | Gambia | 350,323 | 2018 | |
| 123 | Eritrea | 347,009 | 2017 | |
| 124 | Botswana | 330,810 | 2014 | |
| 125 | Austria | 329,031 | 2016 | |
| 126 | Gabon | 317,946 | 2011 | |
| 127 | Uruguay | 309,806 | 2016 | |
| 128 | Georgia | 301,094 | 2017 | |
| 129 | Mongolia | 288,345 | 2017 | |
| 130 | Guinea-Bissau | 278,890 | 2010 | |
| 131 | Kuwait | 273,823 | 2017 | |
| 132 | Serbia | 267,297 | 2017 | |
| 133 | Bulgaria | 261,969 | 2016 | |
| 134 | Jamaica | 242,036 | 2017 | |
| 135 | Swaziland | 239,028 | 2016 | |
| 136 | Singapore | 236,943 | 2016 | |
| 137 | Puerto Rico | 225,017 | 2016 | |
| 138 | East Timor | 222,835 | 2017 | |
| 139 | Slovakia | 219,866 | 2016 | |
| 140 | Albania | 174,836 | 2017 | |
| 141 | Croatia | 162,519 | 2016 | |
| 142 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 161,483 | 2017 | |
| 143 | Armenia | 152,134 | 2017 | |
| 144 | Qatar | 145,992 | 2017 | |
| 145 | Moldova | 139,335 | 2017 | |
| 146 | Trinidad and Tobago | 131,350 | 2010 | |
| 147 | Comoros | 121,517 | 2017 | |
| 148 | Latvia | 121,261 | 2017 | |
| 149 | Slovenia | 119,342 | 2016 | |
| 150 | Bahrain | 112,578 | 2017 | |
| 151 | Lithuania | 110,193 | 2016 | |
| 152 | Fiji | 110,127 | 2016 | |
| 153 | Republic of Macedonia | 108,723 | 2015 | |
| 154 | Solomon Islands | 108,396 | 2017 | |
| 155 | Guyana | 94,488 | 2012 | |
| 156 | Bhutan | 94,184 | 2017 | |
| 157 | Equatorial Guinea | 93,396 | 2015 | |
| 158 | Mauritius | 92,989 | 2017 | |
| 159 | Estonia | 82,824 | 2016 | |
| 160 | Suriname | 67,899 | 2017 | |
| 161 | Djibouti | 62,979 | 2018 | |
| 162 | Cape Verde | 62,808 | 2017 | |
| 163 | Cyprus | 53,426 | 2015 | |
| 164 | Belize | 51,512 | 2017 | |
| 165 | Maldives | 45,326 | 2017 | |
| 166 | Vanuatu | 44,181 | 2013 | |
| 167 | Brunei | 39,610 | 2017 | |
| 168 | Montenegro | 38,740 | 2017 | |
| 169 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 37,090 | 2017 | |
| 170 | Luxembourg | 36,626 | 2016 | |
| 171 | Samoa | 32,950 | 2017 | |
| 172 | Iceland | 31,194 | 2016 | |
| 173 | The Bahamas | 30,655 | 2016 | |
| 174 | French Polynesia | 29,415 | 1996 | |
| 175 | Macao | 28,438 | 2017 | |
| 176 | Malta | 25,177 | 2016 | |
| 177 | New Caledonia | 22,308 | 1994 | |
| 178 | Curacao | 20,812 | 2013 | |
| 179 | Barbados | 20,384 | 2017 | |
| 180 | Tonga | 16,982 | 2015 | |
| 181 | Kiribati | 16,695 | 2017 | |
| 182 | Saint Lucia | 16,054 | 2017 | |
| 183 | Guam | 15,516 | 1989 | |
| 184 | Virgin Islands (US) | 14,544 | 1993 | |
| 185 | Federated States of Micronesia | 13,758 | 2015 | |
| 186 | Grenada | 13,464 | 2017 | |
| 187 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 13,026 | 2017 | |
| 188 | Antigua and Barbuda | 9,946 | 2017 | |
| 189 | Aruba | 9,816 | 2014 | |
| 190 | Seychelles | 9,037 | 2017 | |
| 191 | Marshall Islands | 7,941 | 2016 | |
| 192 | American Samoa | 7,884 | 1992 | |
| 193 | Dominica | 7,323 | 2016 | |
| 194 | Faroe Islands | 5,539 | 1971 | |
| 195 | Saint Kitts And Nevis | 5,452 | 2016 | |
| 196 | Cayman Islands | 4,299 | 2018 | |
| 197 | Andorra | 4,263 | 2017 | |
| 198 | Bermuda | 4,147 | 2015 | |
| 199 | Sint Maarten | 3,677 | 2014 | |
| 200 | Virgin Islands (British) | 3,334 | 2017 | |
| 201 | Turks And Caicos Islands | 2,577 | 2015 | |
| 202 | Monaco | 2,018 | 2017 | |
| 203 | Liechtenstein | 1,956 | 2016 | |
| 204 | Nauru | 1,808 | 2016 | |
| 205 | Palau | 1,639 | 2014 | |
| 206 | San Marino | 1,574 | 2012 | |
| 207 | Tuvalu | 1,324 | 2016 |