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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 100.00; South Sudan is lowest, at 10.78. The middle country reads 84.83. Against 2015, 157 values changed (140 up, 17 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2016

HighestSouth Korea

100.00

LowestSouth Sudan

10.78

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.00100.00099.9952
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.7599.80699.6965
=3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.6299.62499.6142
=3NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.6299.61499.6243
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.5699.57599.5448
6TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.5599.53599.5646
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia99.4799.45099.4898
8RussiaRUSEastern Europe99.4699.51699.4062
9BarbadosBRBCaribbean99.2299.09499.3244
10SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe99.0799.04999.0889
11LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe98.9699.18998.7391
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe98.9298.99898.8484
13SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe98.9099.10598.7051
=14BelarusBLREastern Europe98.8898.88098.8804
=14CanadaCANNorthern America98.8899.22198.5609
16IcelandISLNorthern Europe98.8598.73798.9567
17ArmeniaARMWestern Asia98.7899.21598.3747
18United StatesUSANorthern America98.7198.94398.4926
19UkraineUKREastern Europe98.6798.86098.4896
20ItalyITASouthern Europe98.6598.93098.3899
21CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe98.5298.53598.5047
22SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe98.5198.84098.2000
23GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia98.4798.77998.1791
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe98.4598.59698.3161
25SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe98.4398.39598.4645

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Korea100.00
  2. 2United Kingdom99.75
  3. 3Denmarkshared99.62
  4. 3Norwayshared99.62
  5. 5Finland99.56

Lowest

  1. 160South Sudan10.78
  2. 159Central African Republic11.53
  3. 158Mozambique11.65
  4. 157Guinea-Bissau13.33
  5. 156Chad14.78

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 84.83. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 157values changed, of 160 in both
  • 140 · 17rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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
  • 155 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 99.62. 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) (2016). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/2016

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07Questions

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest lower secondary completion rate in Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016?

South Korea, at 100.00, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016 cover?

160.

Where can I download Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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