Primary school completion rate
New entrants to the last grade of primary education, regardless of age, as a percentage of the population at the entrance age to that grade. It can exceed 100% because of over-age and under-age pupils.
137 countries have a value for 2023, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
Trend over time
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% of the relevant age group. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Ireland | Malta |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | – | 97.1% |
| 2022 | 93.7% | 97.0% |
| 2021 | 96.7% | 98.9% |
| 2020 | 98.1% | 97.2% |
| 2019 | 99.7% | 97.8% |
| 2018 | 96.8% | 98.9% |
| 2017 | 97.9% | 98.6% |
| 2016 | 99.7% | 98.5% |
| 2015 | 98.7% | 96.6% |
| 2014 | 99.8% | 97.5% |
| 2013 | 97.8% | 99.8% |
| 2012 | – | 99.1% |
| 2011 | – | 99.4% |
| 2010 | – | 102.0% |
| 2009 | – | 95.6% |
| 2008 | – | 101.8% |
| 2007 | – | 99.3% |
| 2006 | – | 102.0% |
| 2005 | 95.0% | 102.7% |
| 2004 | 95.5% | 101.8% |
| 2003 | 94.9% | 101.5% |
| 2002 | 95.0% | 102.4% |
| 2001 | 94.7% | 102.5% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 137 countries with a value for 2023, the highest is Saint Kitts and Nevis (124.3%) and the lowest Niger (45.8%).
- Half of the countries are above 96.1% and half below.
- From 2022 to 2023 the value rose in 11 countries and fell in 17.
- The figure for the world was 87.3% in 2023, against 88.1% in 2018 (−0.7 percentage points).
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- Values above 100% are valid.
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- 1 Saint Kitts and Nevis 124.3%
- 2 Naoero 118.3%
- 3 Nepal 117.0%
- 4 Fiji 116.7%
- 5 Vanuatu 116.1%
- 6 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 109.6%
- 7 Moldova 109.1%
- 8 Gibraltar 107.7%
- 9 Tuvalu 106.9%
- 10 Montenegro 106.7%
- 11 Georgia 106.2%
- 12 Kiribati 105.8%
- 13 Lithuania 105.2%
- 14 Morocco 104.8%
- 15 Portugal 104.5%
- 16 Mexico 103.8%
- 17 Kazakhstan 103.1%
- 18 Cayman Islands 102.6%
- 19 Tonga 102.6%
- 20 Venezuela 102.2%
- 21 Thailand 102.1%
- 22 Brunei 101.7%
- 23 Cyprus 101.4%
- 24 Uruguay 101.2%
- 25 Marshall Islands 101.1%
- 26 United Kingdom 101.1%
- 27 Dominica 101.0%
- 28 Chile 100.9%
- 29 Slovakia 100.7%
- 30 Costa Rica 100.7%
- 31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 100.5%
- 32 Croatia 100.5%
- 33 Sierra Leone 100.4%
- 34 Ecuador 100.2%
- 35 Indonesia 100.0%
- 36 Greece 99.9%
- 37 Sweden 99.6%
- 38 Spain 99.6%
- 39 Germany 99.3%
- 40 Denmark 99.3%
- 41 United Arab Emirates 99.2%
- 42 Argentina 98.9%
- 43 Norway 98.9%
- 44 Finland 98.9%
- 45 Samoa 98.8%
- 46 Czechia 98.7%
- 47 Iceland 98.6%
- 48 South Korea 98.3%
- 49 Austria 98.0%
- 50 Bangladesh 98.0%
- 51 Turkmenistan 97.8%
- 52 Latvia 97.6%
- 53 Algeria 97.5%
- 54 Iran 97.4%
- 55 Slovenia 97.4%
- 56 Namibia 97.4%
- 57 Italy 97.4%
- 58 Jordan 97.2%
- 59 Malta 97.1%
- 60 Israel 96.9%
- 61 Switzerland 96.9%
- 62 Singapore 96.8%
- 63 Estonia 96.8%
- 64 Hungary 96.8%
- 65 Belize 96.5%
- 66 Azerbaijan 96.2%
- 67 Bolivia 96.2%
- 68 Kyrgyzstan 96.1%
- 69 San Marino 96.1%
- 70 Uzbekistan 96.1%
- 71 North Macedonia 95.8%
- 72 South Africa 95.3%
- 73 Albania 95.1%
- 74 Maldives 94.6%
- 75 Ukraine 94.5%
- 76 Sri Lanka 94.5%
- 77 Belarus 94.5%
- 78 Bulgaria 94.5%
- 79 Armenia 94.3%
- 80 Mongolia 94.1%
- 81 Seychelles 94.0%
- 82 Egypt 93.8%
- 83 Palau 93.8%
- 84 Eswatini 93.6%
- 85 Cuba 93.6%
- 86 India 93.5%
- 87 Panama 93.3%
- 88 Timor-Leste 93.2%
- 89 Qatar 93.2%
- 90 Barbados 92.2%
- 91 Malaysia 91.8%
- 92 Dominican Republic 91.7%
- 93 Trinidad and Tobago 91.6%
- 94 West Bank and Gaza 91.2%
- 95 Saint Lucia 91.1%
- 96 Türkiye 90.6%
- 97 Afghanistan 90.3%
- 98 Paraguay 90.3%
- 99 Mauritius 90.2%
- 100 Macao SAR, China 89.5%
- 101 Tanzania 89.3%
- 102 Laos 88.8%
- 103 Bahrain 88.6%
- 104 Cambodia 87.6%
- 105 Micronesia 87.4%
- 106 Togo 87.3%
- 107 Guatemala 85.8%
- 108 Zimbabwe 85.2%
- 109 Papua New Guinea 82.7%
- 110 Jamaica 81.1%
- 111 Romania 81.0%
- 112 British Virgin Islands 80.8%
- 113 El Salvador 80.8%
- 114 Gambia 80.2%
- 115 Luxembourg 77.5%
- 116 Philippines 77.2%
- 117 Côte d'Ivoire 75.9%
- 118 Democratic Republic of the Congo 75.7%
- 119 Honduras 73.5%
- 120 Cameroon 72.2%
- 121 Republic of the Congo 71.1%
- 122 Puerto Rico (US) 70.2%
- 123 Andorra 69.4%
- 124 Pakistan 68.6%
- 125 Malawi 68.4%
- 126 Lebanon 67.3%
- 127 Lesotho 67.0%
- 128 Solomon Islands 66.5%
- 129 Senegal 61.5%
- 130 Syria 60.1%
- 131 Rwanda 59.3%
- 132 Madagascar 58.3%
- 133 Ethiopia 55.1%
- 134 Burkina Faso 51.7%
- 135 Mali 48.4%
- 136 Angola 47.9%
- 137 Niger 45.8%
- Euro area 97.5%
- Europe and Central Asia 98.1%
- European Union 97.4%
- Latin America and Caribbean 96.5%
- Middle East and North Africa 81.2%
- North America 96.0%
- OECD members 98.5%
- South Asia 93.8%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 68.8%
- World 87.3%
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Grey: no value for 2023. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.