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3. Education

In the 2020-2021 academic year, the student population of Andorra, including the school and
non-university population abroad, was 11,019. The data for the university population for the
same period is not available on the date of preparing this report so a comparison cannot be made
with the total student population of the previous year. By subgroups, a reduction can be seen
in both the school population and the number of non-university students abroad, which is much
greater in the latter (-0.6% and -38.8%, respectively).

3.1. School population

In the 2020-2021 academic year, there were
10,910 students at school level, 69 less than STUDENT POPULATION BY LEVELS
in the previous year and the lowest level in the Table 4.3
last seven years. These data put the schooling % variation %
rate – calculated as the proportion of the school 2020-2021 20-21/19-20 2020-2021
population in the global population at this level Kindergarten 1,997 -4.8 18.3
– at 46.8%. Primary educat on 4,110 -3.2 37.7
Secondary educat on 3,158 2.4 28.9
Baccalaureate 1,122 6.9 10.3
A seventh annual consecut ve Vocat onal training 523 4.0 4.8
fall was recorded in the number Total 10,910 -0.6 100.0
of kindergarten pupils.
Source: Ministry of Educat on and Higher Educat on.
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By levels, 84.9% of school students are
in kindergarten, primary and secondary THE ANDORRAN SCHOOL POPULATION
education. The other 15.1% are baccalaureate BY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM - As % of total Chart 4.13
and vocational training students. The trend
last year was again marked by the reduction 1991
in kindergarten students (-4.8%). This is the
seventh consecutive decline, a trend related
to the falling numbers of births in recent
years. The number of students in primary
education also fell, but rose in the higher levels
of secondary education, baccalaureate and
vocational training.

Distribution by type of education shows that
the Andorran educational system recorded
a slight decline in the number of students 2021
(-0.2%), the first in five years but smaller than The Andorran economy: general developments | IV. Population, employment and education
that of the total, so its percentage of the
total school population continued to increase
to 41.4%, a new historic high. The fall in the
number of students in the Spanish educational
system was deeper, around 1%, a trend that
continues the progressive loss of importance
of this system, observed since the beginning
of the nineties. So, the Spanish educational
system’s percentage of the total fell to 25.8%,
a figure that sets a new historic low and Source: Ministry of Educat on and Higher Educat on.