Primary school completion rate by country, 2023
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 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Saint Kitts and Nevis (124.3%). Lowest: Niger (45.8%). The median is 96.1%.
Highest 10
- 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%
Lowest 10
- 137. Niger 45.8%
- 136. Angola 47.9%
- 135. Mali 48.4%
- 134. Burkina Faso 51.7%
- 133. Ethiopia 55.1%
- 132. Madagascar 58.3%
- 131. Rwanda 59.3%
- 130. Syria 60.1%
- 129. Senegal 61.5%
- 128. Solomon Islands 66.5%
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 137. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
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).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 124.3% | 2023 | |
| 2 | Naoero | 118.3% | 2023 | |
| 3 | Nepal | 117.0% | 2023 | |
| 4 | Fiji | 116.7% | 2023 | |
| 5 | Vanuatu | 116.1% | 2023 | |
| 6 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 109.6% | 2023 | |
| 7 | Moldova | 109.1% | 2023 | |
| 8 | Gibraltar | 107.7% | 2023 | |
| 9 | Tuvalu | 106.9% | 2023 | |
| 10 | Montenegro | 106.7% | 2023 | |
| 11 | Georgia | 106.2% | 2023 | |
| 12 | Kiribati | 105.8% | 2023 | |
| 13 | Lithuania | 105.2% | 2023 | |
| 14 | Morocco | 104.8% | 2023 | |
| 15 | Portugal | 104.5% | 2023 | |
| 16 | Mexico | 103.8% | 2023 | |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 103.1% | 2023 | |
| 18 | Cayman Islands | 102.6% | 2023 | |
| 19 | Tonga | 102.6% | 2023 | |
| 20 | Venezuela | 102.2% | 2023 | |
| 21 | Thailand | 102.1% | 2023 | |
| 22 | Brunei | 101.7% | 2023 | |
| 23 | Cyprus | 101.4% | 2023 | |
| 24 | Uruguay | 101.2% | 2023 | |
| 25 | Marshall Islands | 101.1% | 2023 | |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 101.1% | 2023 | |
| 27 | Dominica | 101.0% | 2023 | |
| 28 | Chile | 100.9% | 2023 | |
| 29 | Slovakia | 100.7% | 2023 | |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 100.7% | 2023 | |
| 31 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100.5% | 2023 | |
| 32 | Croatia | 100.5% | 2023 | |
| 33 | Sierra Leone | 100.4% | 2023 | |
| 34 | Ecuador | 100.2% | 2023 | |
| 35 | Indonesia | 100.0% | 2023 | |
| 36 | Greece | 99.9% | 2023 | |
| 37 | Sweden | 99.6% | 2023 | |
| 38 | Spain | 99.6% | 2023 | |
| 39 | Germany | 99.3% | 2023 | |
| 40 | Denmark | 99.3% | 2023 | |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 99.2% | 2023 | |
| 42 | Argentina | 98.9% | 2023 | |
| 43 | Norway | 98.9% | 2023 | |
| 44 | Finland | 98.9% | 2023 | |
| 45 | Samoa | 98.8% | 2023 | |
| 46 | Czechia | 98.7% | 2023 | |
| 47 | Iceland | 98.6% | 2023 | |
| 48 | South Korea | 98.3% | 2023 | |
| 49 | Austria | 98.0% | 2023 | |
| 50 | Bangladesh | 98.0% | 2023 | |
| 51 | Turkmenistan | 97.8% | 2023 | |
| 52 | Latvia | 97.6% | 2023 | |
| 53 | Algeria | 97.5% | 2023 | |
| 54 | Iran | 97.4% | 2023 | |
| 55 | Slovenia | 97.4% | 2023 | |
| 56 | Namibia | 97.4% | 2023 | |
| 57 | Italy | 97.4% | 2023 | |
| 58 | Jordan | 97.2% | 2023 | |
| 59 | Malta | 97.1% | 2023 | |
| 60 | Israel | 96.9% | 2023 | |
| 61 | Switzerland | 96.9% | 2023 | |
| 62 | Singapore | 96.8% | 2023 | |
| 63 | Estonia | 96.8% | 2023 | |
| 64 | Hungary | 96.8% | 2023 | |
| 65 | Belize | 96.5% | 2023 | |
| 66 | Azerbaijan | 96.2% | 2023 | |
| 67 | Bolivia | 96.2% | 2023 | |
| 68 | Kyrgyzstan | 96.1% | 2023 | |
| 69 | San Marino | 96.1% | 2023 | |
| 70 | Uzbekistan | 96.1% | 2023 | |
| 71 | North Macedonia | 95.8% | 2023 | |
| 72 | South Africa | 95.3% | 2023 | |
| 73 | Albania | 95.1% | 2023 | |
| 74 | Maldives | 94.6% | 2023 | |
| 75 | Ukraine | 94.5% | 2023 | |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | 94.5% | 2023 | |
| 77 | Belarus | 94.5% | 2023 | |
| 78 | Bulgaria | 94.5% | 2023 | |
| 79 | Armenia | 94.3% | 2023 | |
| 80 | Mongolia | 94.1% | 2023 | |
| 81 | Seychelles | 94.0% | 2023 | |
| 82 | Egypt | 93.8% | 2023 | |
| 83 | Palau | 93.8% | 2023 | |
| 84 | Eswatini | 93.6% | 2023 | |
| 85 | Cuba | 93.6% | 2023 | |
| 86 | India | 93.5% | 2023 | |
| 87 | Panama | 93.3% | 2023 | |
| 88 | Timor-Leste | 93.2% | 2023 | |
| 89 | Qatar | 93.2% | 2023 | |
| 90 | Barbados | 92.2% | 2023 | |
| 91 | Malaysia | 91.8% | 2023 | |
| 92 | Dominican Republic | 91.7% | 2023 | |
| 93 | Trinidad and Tobago | 91.6% | 2023 | |
| 94 | West Bank and Gaza | 91.2% | 2023 | |
| 95 | Saint Lucia | 91.1% | 2023 | |
| 96 | Türkiye | 90.6% | 2023 | |
| 97 | Afghanistan | 90.3% | 2023 | |
| 98 | Paraguay | 90.3% | 2023 | |
| 99 | Mauritius | 90.2% | 2023 | |
| 100 | Macao SAR, China | 89.5% | 2023 | |
| 101 | Tanzania | 89.3% | 2023 | |
| 102 | Laos | 88.8% | 2023 | |
| 103 | Bahrain | 88.6% | 2023 | |
| 104 | Cambodia | 87.6% | 2023 | |
| 105 | Micronesia | 87.4% | 2023 | |
| 106 | Togo | 87.3% | 2023 | |
| 107 | Guatemala | 85.8% | 2023 | |
| 108 | Zimbabwe | 85.2% | 2023 | |
| 109 | Papua New Guinea | 82.7% | 2023 | |
| 110 | Jamaica | 81.1% | 2023 | |
| 111 | Romania | 81.0% | 2023 | |
| 112 | British Virgin Islands | 80.8% | 2023 | |
| 113 | El Salvador | 80.8% | 2023 | |
| 114 | Gambia | 80.2% | 2023 | |
| 115 | Luxembourg | 77.5% | 2023 | |
| 116 | Philippines | 77.2% | 2023 | |
| 117 | Côte d'Ivoire | 75.9% | 2023 | |
| 118 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 75.7% | 2023 | |
| 119 | Honduras | 73.5% | 2023 | |
| 120 | Cameroon | 72.2% | 2023 | |
| 121 | Republic of the Congo | 71.1% | 2023 | |
| 122 | Puerto Rico (US) | 70.2% | 2023 | |
| 123 | Andorra | 69.4% | 2023 | |
| 124 | Pakistan | 68.6% | 2023 | |
| 125 | Malawi | 68.4% | 2023 | |
| 126 | Lebanon | 67.3% | 2023 | |
| 127 | Lesotho | 67.0% | 2023 | |
| 128 | Solomon Islands | 66.5% | 2023 | |
| 129 | Senegal | 61.5% | 2023 | |
| 130 | Syria | 60.1% | 2023 | |
| 131 | Rwanda | 59.3% | 2023 | |
| 132 | Madagascar | 58.3% | 2023 | |
| 133 | Ethiopia | 55.1% | 2023 | |
| 134 | Burkina Faso | 51.7% | 2023 | |
| 135 | Mali | 48.4% | 2023 | |
| 136 | Angola | 47.9% | 2023 | |
| 137 | Niger | 45.8% | 2023 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2023, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2023 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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