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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999

Figures for 1999, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.88; Burundi is lowest, at 4.36. The middle country reads 65.07. Against 1998, 153 values changed (138 up, 15 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1999

HighestSouth Korea

99.88

LowestBurundi

4.36

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, 1999, 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 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.8899.874799.885
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.6599.690799.611
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.5699.555599.565
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.5399.540799.521
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.4899.475599.486
6AustriaAUTWestern Europe99.4399.460399.400
7BelarusBLREastern Europe99.0999.243898.944
8TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.0799.024799.115
9SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe98.9798.940199.000
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe98.7898.747298.797
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe98.7199.002898.433
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe98.6899.096998.277
13UkraineUKREastern Europe98.4298.706598.146
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia98.3198.916197.676
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia98.2398.493597.963
16RussiaRUSEastern Europe98.2298.835297.615
17BarbadosBRBCaribbean98.1998.060398.300
18CanadaCANNorthern America98.0098.493397.533
19MaltaMLTSouthern Europe97.9397.869297.999
20SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe97.9097.845197.955
21LatviaLVANorthern Europe97.8198.830096.830
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe97.6297.205898.016
23CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe97.4597.106897.777
24KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia97.4197.540297.270
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe97.3097.714496.904

02In 1999

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Korea99.88
  2. 2United Kingdom99.65
  3. 3Denmark99.56
  4. 4Finland99.53
  5. 5Norway99.48

Lowest

  1. 160Burundi4.36
  2. 159Mozambique4.56
  3. 158Niger5.01
  4. 157South Sudan5.41
  5. 156Rwanda6.05

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.07. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 153values changed, of 160 in both
  • 138 · 15rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

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

The site’s method

  • 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 160 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

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) (1999). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/1999

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07Questions

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest lower secondary completion rate in Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999?

South Korea, at 99.88, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999 cover?

160.

Where can I download Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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