Completion rate, primary education
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).
61 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 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.
| Period | Cyprus | Denmark |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 97.6% | 99.4% |
| 2020 | – | 99.4% |
| 2019 | – | 99.4% |
| 2018 | 98.8% | 99.5% |
| 2017 | 98.3% | 99.5% |
| 2016 | 98.1% | 99.5% |
| 2015 | 98.5% | 99.3% |
| 2014 | 99.4% | 99.2% |
| 2013 | 99.4% | 99.9% |
| 2012 | 98.4% | 100.0% |
| 2011 | 97.9% | 100.0% |
| 2010 | 98.4% | 100.0% |
| 2009 | 99.2% | 100.0% |
| 2008 | 98.5% | 100.0% |
| 2007 | 98.6% | 99.9% |
| 2006 | 97.6% | 99.7% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 61 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Belarus (100.0%) and the lowest Chad (26.9%).
- Half of the countries are above 98.2% and half below.
About this measure
Before comparing
- 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.
Source and dates
All countries in 2019 Every value is for 2019, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Belarus 100.0%
- 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%
- 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%
- 15 France 99.4%
- 16 Slovenia 99.4%
- 17 Turkmenistan 99.4%
- 18 Croatia 99.3%
- 19 Greece 99.3%
- 20 Poland 99.2%
- 21 United States 99.1%
- 22 Hungary 99.0%
- 23 Switzerland 98.9%
- 24 Turks and Caicos Islands 98.7%
- 25 Thailand 98.7%
- 26 Austria 98.6%
- 27 Sri Lanka 98.5%
- 28 Sweden 98.4%
- 29 Romania 98.4%
- 30 Guyana 98.2%
- 31 Tonga 98.2%
- 32 Ecuador 98.2%
- 33 Portugal 98.1%
- 34 Uruguay 98.1%
- 35 Samoa 98.1%
- 36 Spain 98.0%
- 37 Panama 97.4%
- 38 Peru 97.4%
- 39 Costa Rica 96.9%
- 40 Brazil 95.7%
- 41 Bolivia 95.3%
- 42 Paraguay 94.3%
- 43 India 94.2%
- 44 Algeria 94.1%
- 45 Colombia 93.9%
- 46 Dominican Republic 90.7%
- 47 El Salvador 89.8%
- 48 Zimbabwe 88.8%
- 49 Honduras 87.4%
- 50 São Tomé and Príncipe 87.1%
- 51 Bangladesh 82.6%
- 52 Nepal 81.8%
- 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%
- 60 Central African Republic 27.0%
- 61 Chad 26.9%
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- Completion rate, lower secondary educationUNESCO UIS
- Primary school completion rateWorld Bank
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Grey: no value for 2019. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.