Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2020

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Lower secondary completion rate (%)	Female	Male
1	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	100.00	100.000	100.000
2	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	99.82	99.877	99.767
3	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	99.71	99.710	99.710
4	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	99.67	99.686	99.656
5	TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	99.63	99.640	99.620
6	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	99.61	99.629	99.589
7	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	99.53	99.591	99.471
8	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	99.48	99.424	99.534
9	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	99.38	99.273	99.483
10	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	99.21	99.284	99.144
11	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	99.15	99.298	99.018
12	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	99.08	99.297	98.877
13	CanadaCANNorthern America	99.05	99.373	98.743
14	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	98.99	98.964	99.014
15	ItalyITASouthern Europe	98.97	99.223	98.733
16	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	98.94	98.816	99.046
=17	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	98.89	99.340	98.460
=17	BelarusBLREastern Europe	98.89	98.937	98.847
19	United StatesUSANorthern America	98.86	99.020	98.710
20	UkraineUKREastern Europe	98.77	98.960	98.590
21	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	98.71	99.041	98.401
22	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	98.68	98.640	98.720
23	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	98.57	98.688	98.458
24	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	98.53	98.902	98.182
=25	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	98.51	98.752	98.282

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 86.78. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestSouth Korea100.000

  LowestSouth Sudan7.845

  Middle country: 90.121

• Male

  HighestSouth Korea100.000

  LowestGuinea-Bissau15.029

  Middle country: 84.551

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

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.

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