Most primary schools (country)

Most primary schools (country)
Who
India
Where
Not Applicable
When
March 2018

The country with the most primary schools is India, which has 840,546 primary schools serving children from ages 6 to 10 as of March 2018. If Upper Primary schools (which include children aged 11–12) then the total number of institutions is 1,270,170.

The next-largest primary school education system is that of China, with 189,435 schools as of 2016, followed by the United States with 89,543 as of 2015.