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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011

Figures for 2011, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.97; Niger is lowest, at 8.53. The middle country reads 79.28. Against 2010, 155 values changed (139 up, 16 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2011

HighestSouth Korea

99.97

LowestNiger

8.53

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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.9799.98199.961
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.6699.70699.616
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.5999.59099.590
=4FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.5499.55699.526
=4NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.5499.55099.530
6KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia99.3699.42499.294
7TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.3599.27499.424
8RussiaRUSEastern Europe99.3199.51999.109
9BarbadosBRBCaribbean99.0198.84399.143
10SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe98.9798.93499.004
11BelarusBLREastern Europe98.9699.04298.882
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe98.9499.16698.726
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe98.8698.80598.925
14AustriaAUTWestern Europe98.8298.87198.771
15SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe98.6999.00298.392
16CanadaCANNorthern America98.6899.05998.319
=17ArmeniaARMWestern Asia98.6699.03798.257
=17SwedenSWENorthern Europe98.6698.66098.660
19UkraineUKREastern Europe98.5598.80698.306
20CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe98.4298.24198.591
21United StatesUSANorthern America98.3698.63498.104
22GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia98.2898.53998.019
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe98.2398.58897.888
24ItalyITASouthern Europe98.2098.61397.813
25SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe98.0898.14598.015

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Korea99.97
  2. 2United Kingdom99.66
  3. 3Denmark99.59
  4. 4Finlandshared99.54
  5. 4Norwayshared99.54

Lowest

  1. 160Niger8.53
  2. 159South Sudan9.36
  3. 158Mozambique9.58
  4. 157Central African Republic9.91
  5. 156Guinea-Bissau11.88

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 79.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 155values changed, of 160 in both
  • 139 · 16rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

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
  • 157 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 99.54. 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 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) (2011). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/2011

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07Questions

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest lower secondary completion rate in Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011?

South Korea, at 99.97, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 cover?

160.

Where can I download Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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