Graduates across seven education levels; M students, 2025 prelim.
Primary schools recorded 18.605 million graduates in China in 2025, the largest cohort among the seven reported education levels. Junior secondary schools followed with 17.237 million graduates, while undergraduate and college education recorded 11.051 million. Special education recorded the smallest cohort at 0.184 million, making the largest cohort about 101 times the smallest. The levels describe different education stages and are not added into a unique-person total.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Primary | 18.605M | 2025 prelim. |
| 2 | Junior secondary | 17.237M | 2025 prelim. |
| 3 | Undergrad & college | 11.051M | 2025 prelim. |
| 4 | Senior secondary | 9.246M | 2025 prelim. |
| 5 | Vocational secondary | 5.219M | 2025 prelim. |
| 6 | Graduate | 1.167M | 2025 prelim. |
| 7 | Special education | 0.184M | 2025 prelim. |
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Education graduates by level, 2025
Units: million students
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports the seven official education-level graduates counts for China in 2025.
The categories follow the NBS institutional classifications and may describe different age cohorts. The counts are not summed into a unique-person total, and the annual figures are preliminary.
The seven NBS graduate counts are ordered by cohort size and retained as raw values because the education stages do not share one part-to-whole denominator.
All seven values use the same NBS release, 2025 period and million-student unit.
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