Primary completion (UIS) in Serbia

Name: Primary completion (UIS) in Serbia
Creator: UNESCO UIS
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In Serbia, 99.5% 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: 2005 to 2019 Source: UNESCO UIS

Serbia, 2019 99.5% % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age

Change from 2014 +0.2percentage points 2014: 99.3%

Position in 2019 11th of 61 See the full ranking

Primary completion (UIS) in Serbia 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), 2005 to 2019
Period	Serbia
2019	99.5%
2014	99.3%
2011	100.0%
2005	99.0%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

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In short

The previous available figure was 99.3% in 2014, a change of +0.2 percentage points.
Since 2005, when it was 99.0%, the figure has changed by +0.5 percentage points.
Among the 61 countries with data for 2019, Serbia has the 11th highest value.

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All statistics for Serbia

Lower secondary completion 98.3% 2019 · UNESCO UIS Primary school completion rate 96.0% 2022 · World Bank NEET rate, ages 15 to 29 15.1% 2025 · Eurostat Tertiary education attainment, ages 25 to 34 37.1% 2025 · Eurostat Early leavers from education and training 5.1% 2025 · Eurostat Adult participation in learning 5.2% 2025 · Eurostat

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: 2005 to 2019 for Serbia
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 Serbia compares in 2019 Neighbouring positions among 61 countries with a value for 2019.

8 Lithuania 99.5%
9 Estonia 99.5%
10 Norway 99.5%
11 Serbia 99.5%
12 Latvia 99.5%
13 West Bank and Gaza 99.5%
14 Denmark 99.4%

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Serbia by sex

Total 99.5%2019
Girls 98.9%2019
Boys 100.0%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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