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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018

Figures for 2018, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 100.00; South Sudan is lowest, at 11.43. The middle country reads 85.88. Against 2017, 156 values changed (147 up, 9 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2018

HighestSouth Korea

100.00

LowestSouth Sudan

11.43

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.00100.0000100.000
2United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.7999.846499.736
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.6799.664399.674
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.6399.640299.620
5TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.5999.579999.600
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe99.5899.590899.571
7RussiaRUSEastern Europe99.5199.576599.446
8KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia99.4799.434799.505
9BarbadosBRBCaribbean99.3099.192899.403
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe99.1499.236799.047
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe99.0799.181298.971
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe99.0499.262098.832
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe99.0198.973599.044
14CanadaCANNorthern America98.9799.310298.650
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe98.8998.763699.014
16BelarusBLREastern Europe98.8798.885498.855
17ArmeniaARMWestern Asia98.8499.309898.410
18ItalyITASouthern Europe98.8299.100598.561
19United StatesUSANorthern America98.7598.936098.576
20UkraineUKREastern Europe98.7298.915098.535
21SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe98.6098.942598.283
22SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe98.5698.514698.605
23CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe98.5498.617298.467
24GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia98.5198.861898.182
=25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe98.3798.564098.184

02In 2018

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 Kingdom99.79
  3. 3Norway99.67
  4. 4Denmark99.63
  5. 5Turkmenistan99.59

Lowest

  1. 160South Sudan11.43
  2. 159Central African Republic12.34
  3. 158Mozambique12.99
  4. 157Guinea-Bissau14.07
  5. 156Chad15.76

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 85.88. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 160 in both
  • 147 · 9rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

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
  • 159 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 98.37. 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) (2018). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/2018

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07Questions

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest lower secondary completion rate in Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018?

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

What year does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018 cover?

160.

Where can I download Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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