Primary completion (UIS) in Cuba

Name: Primary completion (UIS) in Cuba
Creator: UNESCO UIS
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

In Cuba, 99.7% of children had completed primary school by the expected age in 2019.

Completion rate, primary education % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age Data: 2006 to 2019 Source: UNESCO UIS

Cuba, 2019 99.7% % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age

Change from 2014 +0.2percentage points 2014: 99.5%

Position in 2019 5th of 61 See the full ranking

Primary completion (UIS) in Cuba over time: Boys

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% of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Completion rate, primary education (% of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age), 2006 to 2019
Period	Cuba
2019	99.5%
2014	99.3%
2010	97.8%
2006	98.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

The previous available figure was 99.5% in 2014, a change of +0.2 percentage points.
Since 2006, when it was 99.0%, the figure has changed by +0.7 percentage points.
Among the 61 countries with data for 2019, Cuba has the 5th highest value.

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All statistics for Cuba

Lower secondary completion 94.1% 2019 · UNESCO UIS Primary school completion rate 91.1% 2024 · World Bank ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 11.5% 2025 · ILOSTAT Upper secondary completion 65.3% 2019 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 4.7% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school adolescents 7.7% 2024 · UNESCO UIS

Source and dates

Original producer: UNESCO UIS
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Dataset or series code: CR.1 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period: 2006 to 2019 for Cuba
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org

How Cuba compares in 2019 Neighbouring positions among 61 countries with a value for 2019.

2 Russia 100.0%
3 Tuvalu 100.0%
4 United Kingdom 99.8%
5 Cuba 99.7%
6 Finland 99.7%
7 Italy 99.6%
8 Lithuania 99.5%

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Cuba by sex

Total 99.7%2019
Girls 99.8%2019
Boys 99.5%2019

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What this measures

Share of children aged 3 to 5 years older than the official age for the last grade of primary school who have completed primary education, mostly measured in household surveys (SDG indicator 4.1.2).

Survey years differ between countries; check the year shown for each value.
This survey-based rate differs from the World Bank's primary completion rate, which compares new entrants to the last grade with the population of that age.

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