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Upper secondary completion by country, 2019, European Union (27 countries)

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).

22 places ranked for 2019. Highest: Croatia (97.0%). Lowest: Spain (75.1%). The median is 85.6%.

Unit: % of young people 3 to 5 years above the final 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. Croatia 97.0%
  2. 2. Lithuania 94.9%
  3. 3. Greece 94.7%
  4. 4. Cyprus 93.1%
  5. 5. Slovenia 93.0%
  6. 6. Poland 92.8%
  7. 7. Finland 88.3%
  8. 8. France 87.9%
  9. 9. Hungary 87.1%
  10. 10. Latvia 86.3%

Lowest 10

  1. 22. Spain 75.1%
  2. 21. Denmark 78.1%
  3. 20. Luxembourg 79.1%
  4. 19. Germany 79.7%
  5. 18. Portugal 82.3%
  6. 17. Estonia 82.8%
  7. 16. Italy 83.4%
  8. 15. Bulgaria 84.3%
  9. 14. Romania 84.6%
  10. 13. Sweden 85.2%

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

Full ranking

Upper secondary completion by country, 2019, European Union (27 countries)
#CountryValuePeriodRelative size
1 Croatia 97.0% 2019
2 Lithuania 94.9% 2019
3 Greece 94.7% 2019
4 Cyprus 93.1% 2019
5 Slovenia 93.0% 2019
6 Poland 92.8% 2019
7 Finland 88.3% 2019
8 France 87.9% 2019
9 Hungary 87.1% 2019
10 Latvia 86.3% 2019
11 Austria 85.8% 2019
12 Belgium 85.3% 2019
13 Sweden 85.2% 2019
14 Romania 84.6% 2019
15 Bulgaria 84.3% 2019
16 Italy 83.4% 2019
17 Estonia 82.8% 2019
18 Portugal 82.3% 2019
19 Germany 79.7% 2019
20 Luxembourg 79.1% 2019
21 Denmark 78.1% 2019
22 Spain 75.1% 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.

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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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