Primary completion (UIS) by country, 2019, European Union (27 countries)

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).

17 places ranked for 2019. Highest: Finland (99.7%). Lowest: Spain (98.0%). The median is 99.3%.

Unit: % of children 3 to 5 years above the final primary grade age Source: UNESCO UIS Trend, map and download

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

Highest 10

  1. 1. Finland 99.7%
  2. 2. Italy 99.6%
  3. 3. Lithuania 99.5%
  4. 4. Estonia 99.5%
  5. 5. Latvia 99.5%
  6. 6. Denmark 99.4%
  7. 7. France 99.4%
  8. 8. Slovenia 99.4%
  9. 9. Croatia 99.3%
  10. 10. Greece 99.3%

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org.

Full ranking

Primary completion (UIS) by country, 2019, European Union (27 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Finland 99.7% 2019
2 Italy 99.6% 2019
3 Lithuania 99.5% 2019
4 Estonia 99.5% 2019
5 Latvia 99.5% 2019
6 Denmark 99.4% 2019
7 France 99.4% 2019
8 Slovenia 99.4% 2019
9 Croatia 99.3% 2019
10 Greece 99.3% 2019
11 Poland 99.2% 2019
12 Hungary 99.0% 2019
13 Austria 98.6% 2019
14 Sweden 98.4% 2019
15 Romania 98.4% 2019
16 Portugal 98.1% 2019
17 Spain 98.0% 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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