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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981

Figures for 1981, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981 covers 164 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.59; Burundi is lowest, at 1.28. The middle country reads 44.84.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1981

HighestSouth Korea

99.59

LowestBurundi

1.28

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.5999.53899.638
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.5499.58699.496
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.4199.41699.406
=4AustriaAUTWestern Europe99.4099.42599.375
=4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.4099.35999.439
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.3299.28099.360
7UkraineUKREastern Europe99.2399.25199.211
8BelarusBLREastern Europe99.0999.18299.002
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe98.9899.10498.864
10ArmeniaARMWestern Asia98.8299.05998.579
11SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe98.7298.66398.773
12TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia98.7098.47198.931
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe98.5598.40698.686
14LatviaLVANorthern Europe97.9198.92896.948
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia97.6997.50797.867
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe97.4497.36397.523
17SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe97.3698.06396.653
18SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe97.1296.43497.814
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia96.7496.32897.168
20EstoniaESTNorthern Europe96.5897.56995.639
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe96.3896.29096.470
22CanadaCANNorthern America96.2996.88295.722
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe96.2695.02597.445
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe96.2296.46395.983
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe96.1395.30596.945

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1South Korea99.59
  2. 2United Kingdom99.54
  3. 3Finland99.41
  4. 4Austriashared99.40
  5. 4Denmarkshared99.40

Lowest

  1. 164Burundi1.28
  2. 163Mozambique2.26
  3. 162Maldives2.36
  4. 161South Sudan2.69
  5. 160Burkina Faso2.73

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 44.84. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • 162 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 99.40. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 164 countries has every column.

04The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1981). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/1981

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06Questions

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest lower secondary completion rate in Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981?

South Korea, at 99.59, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981 cover?

164.

Where can I download Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2025.

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