Primary completion (UIS) in Ethiopia

Name: Primary completion (UIS) in Ethiopia
Creator: UNESCO UIS
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In Ethiopia, 54.4% of children had completed primary school by the expected age in 2022.

Completion rate, primary education % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age Data: 2000 to 2022 Source: UNESCO UIS

Ethiopia, 2022 54.4% % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age

Change from 2019 −1.2percentage points 2019: 55.6%

Primary completion (UIS) in Ethiopia over time

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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), 2000 to 2022
Period	Ethiopia
2022	54.4%
2019	55.6%
2016	49.3%
2011	39.6%
2007	26.6%
2005	28.2%
2000	17.9%

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In short

The previous available figure was 55.6% in 2019, a change of −1.2 percentage points.
Since 2000, when it was 17.9%, the figure has changed by +36.5 percentage points.

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All statistics for Ethiopia

Lower secondary completion 30.4% 2022 · UNESCO UIS Primary school completion rate 54.4% 2024 · World Bank ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 17.2% 2025 · ILOSTAT Upper secondary completion 17.6% 2022 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 22.5% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school adolescents 54.8% 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: 2000 to 2022 for Ethiopia
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 Ethiopia compares in 2019 Neighbouring positions among 61 countries with a value for 2019.

53 Kenya 80.4%
54 Cambodia 78.2%
55 Sierra Leone 69.4%
56 Ethiopia 55.6%
57 Benin 53.4%
58 Senegal 47.4%
59 Liberia 30.5%

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Ethiopia by sex

Total 54.4%2022
Girls 52.9%2022
Boys 56.1%2022

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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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