Completion rate, lower secondary education
Share of young people aged 3 to 5 years older than the official age for the last grade of lower secondary school who have completed lower secondary education (SDG indicator 4.1.2).
68 countries have a value for 2019, 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 young people 3 to 5 years above the final grade age. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | United States | China | India | Germany |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 98.7% | – | – | – |
| 2023 | 98.7% | – | – | – |
| 2022 | 98.7% | – | – | – |
| 2021 | 98.8% | – | – | 92.2% |
| 2020 | 98.8% | 95.7% | – | 93.6% |
| 2019 | 98.6% | – | 85.8% | 92.7% |
| 2018 | 98.6% | 90.3% | – | 93.0% |
| 2017 | 98.8% | – | – | 93.2% |
| 2016 | 98.8% | 90.6% | 81.0% | 93.2% |
| 2015 | 98.8% | – | – | 92.6% |
| 2014 | – | 82.6% | – | 93.9% |
| 2013 | 98.5% | – | – | 96.9% |
| 2012 | – | 84.8% | – | 96.6% |
| 2011 | – | – | 76.1% | 96.2% |
| 2010 | 98.3% | 84.9% | – | 94.0% |
| 2009 | – | – | – | 92.5% |
| 2008 | – | – | – | 93.8% |
| 2007 | – | – | – | 95.3% |
| 2006 | – | – | 59.1% | 94.5% |
| 2005 | – | – | 58.2% | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 68 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Russia (100.0%) and the lowest Central African Republic (12.3%).
- Half of the countries are above 94.0% and half below.
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- Survey years differ between countries; check the year shown for each value.
Source and dates
All countries in 2019 Every value is for 2019, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Russia 100.0%
- 2 United Kingdom 99.6%
- 3 Belarus 99.5%
- 4 Turks and Caicos Islands 99.3%
- 5 Finland 99.3%
- 6 Italy 99.2%
- 7 Turkmenistan 99.1%
- 8 Lithuania 99.1%
- 9 Estonia 99.0%
- 10 Norway 99.0%
- 11 Latvia 99.0%
- 12 Denmark 98.8%
- 13 France 98.8%
- 14 Slovenia 98.8%
- 15 United States 98.6%
- 16 Croatia 98.6%
- 17 Greece 98.5%
- 18 Poland 98.5%
- 19 Serbia 98.3%
- 20 Hungary 98.0%
- 21 Switzerland 97.8%
- 22 Mongolia 97.7%
- 23 Kazakhstan 97.3%
- 24 Austria 97.2%
- 25 Samoa 97.0%
- 26 Sweden 96.9%
- 27 Romania 96.8%
- 28 Sri Lanka 96.3%
- 29 Portugal 96.2%
- 30 Spain 95.9%
- 31 Bulgaria 94.5%
- 32 Cyprus 94.2%
- 33 Cuba 94.1%
- 34 Luxembourg 94.1%
- 35 New Caledonia 93.9%
- 36 Germany 92.7%
- 37 Tonga 92.4%
- 38 West Bank and Gaza 92.3%
- 39 Belgium 92.1%
- 40 Peru 91.9%
- 41 Bolivia 91.7%
- 42 Ecuador 90.5%
- 43 Thailand 87.4%
- 44 Brazil 86.7%
- 45 India 85.8%
- 46 Tuvalu 85.2%
- 47 Panama 85.1%
- 48 Guyana 83.0%
- 49 Paraguay 81.1%
- 50 Colombia 78.7%
- 51 Dominican Republic 77.3%
- 52 Uruguay 76.9%
- 53 Costa Rica 76.1%
- 54 El Salvador 74.6%
- 55 Algeria 73.2%
- 56 Nepal 73.1%
- 57 Kenya 72.0%
- 58 Bangladesh 64.8%
- 59 São Tomé and Príncipe 60.0%
- 60 Honduras 54.2%
- 61 Sierra Leone 47.0%
- 62 Cambodia 45.9%
- 63 Senegal 29.6%
- 64 Ethiopia 28.5%
- 65 Liberia 27.4%
- 66 Benin 25.6%
- 67 Chad 13.1%
- 68 Central African Republic 12.3%
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Grey: no value for 2019. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.