Primary completion (UIS) by country, 2019
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 places ranked for 2019. Highest: Belarus (100.0%). Lowest: Chad (26.9%). The median is 98.2%.
Highest 10
Lowest 10
- 61. Chad 26.9%
- 60. Central African Republic 27.0%
- 59. Liberia 30.5%
- 58. Senegal 47.4%
- 57. Benin 53.4%
- 56. Ethiopia 55.6%
- 55. Sierra Leone 69.4%
- 54. Cambodia 78.2%
- 53. Kenya 80.4%
- 52. Nepal 81.8%
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 61. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org.
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.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2019 | |
| 2 | Russia | 100.0% | 2019 | |
| 3 | Tuvalu | 100.0% | 2019 | |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 99.8% | 2019 | |
| 5 | Cuba | 99.7% | 2019 | |
| 6 | Finland | 99.7% | 2019 | |
| 7 | Italy | 99.6% | 2019 | |
| 8 | Lithuania | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 9 | Estonia | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 10 | Norway | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 11 | Serbia | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 12 | Latvia | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 13 | West Bank and Gaza | 99.5% | 2019 | |
| 14 | Denmark | 99.4% | 2019 | |
| 15 | France | 99.4% | 2019 | |
| 16 | Slovenia | 99.4% | 2019 | |
| 17 | Turkmenistan | 99.4% | 2019 | |
| 18 | Croatia | 99.3% | 2019 | |
| 19 | Greece | 99.3% | 2019 | |
| 20 | Poland | 99.2% | 2019 | |
| 21 | United States | 99.1% | 2019 | |
| 22 | Hungary | 99.0% | 2019 | |
| 23 | Switzerland | 98.9% | 2019 | |
| 24 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 98.7% | 2019 | |
| 25 | Thailand | 98.7% | 2019 | |
| 26 | Austria | 98.6% | 2019 | |
| 27 | Sri Lanka | 98.5% | 2019 | |
| 28 | Sweden | 98.4% | 2019 | |
| 29 | Romania | 98.4% | 2019 | |
| 30 | Guyana | 98.2% | 2019 | |
| 31 | Tonga | 98.2% | 2019 | |
| 32 | Ecuador | 98.2% | 2019 | |
| 33 | Portugal | 98.1% | 2019 | |
| 34 | Uruguay | 98.1% | 2019 | |
| 35 | Samoa | 98.1% | 2019 | |
| 36 | Spain | 98.0% | 2019 | |
| 37 | Panama | 97.4% | 2019 | |
| 38 | Peru | 97.4% | 2019 | |
| 39 | Costa Rica | 96.9% | 2019 | |
| 40 | Brazil | 95.7% | 2019 | |
| 41 | Bolivia | 95.3% | 2019 | |
| 42 | Paraguay | 94.3% | 2019 | |
| 43 | India | 94.2% | 2019 | |
| 44 | Algeria | 94.1% | 2019 | |
| 45 | Colombia | 93.9% | 2019 | |
| 46 | Dominican Republic | 90.7% | 2019 | |
| 47 | El Salvador | 89.8% | 2019 | |
| 48 | Zimbabwe | 88.8% | 2019 | |
| 49 | Honduras | 87.4% | 2019 | |
| 50 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 87.1% | 2019 | |
| 51 | Bangladesh | 82.6% | 2019 | |
| 52 | Nepal | 81.8% | 2019 | |
| 53 | Kenya | 80.4% | 2019 | |
| 54 | Cambodia | 78.2% | 2019 | |
| 55 | Sierra Leone | 69.4% | 2019 | |
| 56 | Ethiopia | 55.6% | 2019 | |
| 57 | Benin | 53.4% | 2019 | |
| 58 | Senegal | 47.4% | 2019 | |
| 59 | Liberia | 30.5% | 2019 | |
| 60 | Central African Republic | 27.0% | 2019 | |
| 61 | Chad | 26.9% | 2019 |
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 2019, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2019 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by UNESCO UIS; 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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