Upper secondary completion by country, 2019
Share of young people aged 3 to 5 years older than the official age for the last grade of upper secondary school who have completed upper secondary education (SDG indicator 4.1.2).
68 places ranked for 2019. Highest: Ukraine (98.7%). Lowest: Chad (4.5%). The median is 77.6%.
Highest 10
- 1. Ukraine 98.7%
- 2. Turks and Caicos Islands 97.7%
- 3. Kazakhstan 97.6%
- 4. Croatia 97.0%
- 5. Bahamas 95.4%
- 6. Lithuania 94.9%
- 7. Greece 94.7%
- 8. United States 93.4%
- 9. Cyprus 93.1%
- 10. Switzerland 93.0%
Lowest 10
- 68. Chad 4.5%
- 67. Central African Republic 5.6%
- 66. Senegal 10.5%
- 65. Benin 11.9%
- 64. Zimbabwe 14.0%
- 63. Ethiopia 15.5%
- 62. Liberia 19.4%
- 61. Sierra Leone 19.6%
- 60. Cambodia 21.8%
- 59. Pakistan 24.7%
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 68. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org.
In short
- Among the 68 countries with a value for 2019, the highest is Ukraine (98.7%) and the lowest Chad (4.5%).
- Half of the countries are above 77.6% and half below.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ukraine | 98.7% | 2019 | |
| 2 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 97.7% | 2019 | |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 97.6% | 2019 | |
| 4 | Croatia | 97.0% | 2019 | |
| 5 | Bahamas | 95.4% | 2019 | |
| 6 | Lithuania | 94.9% | 2019 | |
| 7 | Greece | 94.7% | 2019 | |
| 8 | United States | 93.4% | 2019 | |
| 9 | Cyprus | 93.1% | 2019 | |
| 10 | Switzerland | 93.0% | 2019 | |
| 11 | Slovenia | 93.0% | 2019 | |
| 12 | Poland | 92.8% | 2019 | |
| 13 | Russia | 91.3% | 2019 | |
| 14 | Belarus | 90.4% | 2019 | |
| 15 | Mongolia | 89.1% | 2019 | |
| 16 | Finland | 88.3% | 2019 | |
| 17 | France | 87.9% | 2019 | |
| 18 | Hungary | 87.1% | 2019 | |
| 19 | Peru | 86.8% | 2019 | |
| 20 | Latvia | 86.3% | 2019 | |
| 21 | Austria | 85.8% | 2019 | |
| 22 | Belgium | 85.3% | 2019 | |
| 23 | Sweden | 85.2% | 2019 | |
| 24 | Romania | 84.6% | 2019 | |
| 25 | United Kingdom | 84.5% | 2019 | |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 84.3% | 2019 | |
| 27 | Italy | 83.4% | 2019 | |
| 28 | Serbia | 83.4% | 2019 | |
| 29 | Estonia | 82.8% | 2019 | |
| 30 | Norway | 82.3% | 2019 | |
| 31 | Portugal | 82.3% | 2019 | |
| 32 | Germany | 79.7% | 2019 | |
| 33 | Luxembourg | 79.1% | 2019 | |
| 34 | Denmark | 78.1% | 2019 | |
| 35 | Bolivia | 77.0% | 2019 | |
| 36 | Spain | 75.1% | 2019 | |
| 37 | New Caledonia | 74.8% | 2019 | |
| 38 | Ecuador | 74.2% | 2019 | |
| 39 | Colombia | 73.2% | 2019 | |
| 40 | Brazil | 69.3% | 2019 | |
| 41 | Paraguay | 66.9% | 2019 | |
| 42 | Thailand | 66.4% | 2019 | |
| 43 | Panama | 65.9% | 2019 | |
| 44 | Cuba | 65.3% | 2019 | |
| 45 | West Bank and Gaza | 62.5% | 2019 | |
| 46 | Costa Rica | 61.8% | 2019 | |
| 47 | Guyana | 61.8% | 2019 | |
| 48 | Dominican Republic | 61.2% | 2019 | |
| 49 | El Salvador | 58.9% | 2019 | |
| 50 | Samoa | 57.0% | 2019 | |
| 51 | Kenya | 55.6% | 2019 | |
| 52 | Tuvalu | 55.5% | 2019 | |
| 53 | India | 50.6% | 2019 | |
| 54 | Algeria | 46.5% | 2019 | |
| 55 | Uruguay | 41.0% | 2019 | |
| 56 | Honduras | 33.1% | 2019 | |
| 57 | Bangladesh | 29.4% | 2019 | |
| 58 | Nepal | 27.3% | 2019 | |
| 59 | Pakistan | 24.7% | 2019 | |
| 60 | Cambodia | 21.8% | 2019 | |
| 61 | Sierra Leone | 19.6% | 2019 | |
| 62 | Liberia | 19.4% | 2019 | |
| 63 | Ethiopia | 15.5% | 2019 | |
| 64 | Zimbabwe | 14.0% | 2019 | |
| 65 | Benin | 11.9% | 2019 | |
| 66 | Senegal | 10.5% | 2019 | |
| 67 | Central African Republic | 5.6% | 2019 | |
| 68 | Chad | 4.5% | 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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