Primary school completion rate by country, 2023, European Union (27 countries)

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.

22 places ranked for 2023. Highest: Lithuania (105.2%). Lowest: Luxembourg (77.5%). The median is 98.8%.

Unit: % of the relevant age group Source: World Bank Trend, map and download

Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group

Highest 10

  1. 1. Lithuania 105.2%
  2. 2. Portugal 104.5%
  3. 3. Cyprus 101.4%
  4. 4. Slovakia 100.7%
  5. 5. Croatia 100.5%
  6. 6. Greece 99.9%
  7. 7. Sweden 99.6%
  8. 8. Spain 99.6%
  9. 9. Germany 99.3%
  10. 10. Denmark 99.3%

Lowest 10

  1. 22. Luxembourg 77.5%
  2. 21. Romania 81.0%
  3. 20. Bulgaria 94.5%
  4. 19. Hungary 96.8%
  5. 18. Estonia 96.8%
  6. 17. Malta 97.1%
  7. 16. Italy 97.4%
  8. 15. Slovenia 97.4%
  9. 14. Latvia 97.6%
  10. 13. Austria 98.0%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.

Full ranking

Primary school completion rate by country, 2023, European Union (27 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Lithuania 105.2% 2023
2 Portugal 104.5% 2023
3 Cyprus 101.4% 2023
4 Slovakia 100.7% 2023
5 Croatia 100.5% 2023
6 Greece 99.9% 2023
7 Sweden 99.6% 2023
8 Spain 99.6% 2023
9 Germany 99.3% 2023
10 Denmark 99.3% 2023
11 Finland 98.9% 2023
12 Czechia 98.7% 2023
13 Austria 98.0% 2023
14 Latvia 97.6% 2023
15 Slovenia 97.4% 2023
16 Italy 97.4% 2023
17 Malta 97.1% 2023
18 Estonia 96.8% 2023
19 Hungary 96.8% 2023
20 Bulgaria 94.5% 2023
21 Romania 81.0% 2023
22 Luxembourg 77.5% 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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