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Yugoslavia Primary Schools
A 1958 education law lengthened the country's primary
education sequence to eight years and made attendance compulsory
for children from seven to fifteen years of age. Between 1945 and
1981, elementary school enrollment rose from 40 percent to 98.6
percent of all children between ages seven and ten and 92 percent
of those between eleven and fourteen. In the same period, the
number of elementary school teachers increased more than
fivefold, and the student-teacher ratio fell from 59:1 to 20:1.
Primary education in Yugoslavia's less developed regions improved
dramatically, and instruction in the languages of Yugoslavia's
ethnic minorities increased. In Kosovo, the number of primary
school students rose tenfold between the end of World War II and
1981. In 1986 the student-teacher ratio for primary instruction
in the languages of Yugoslavia's ethnic minorities was 18.8:1,
better than the Yugoslav average overall.
Data as of December 1990
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