Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2021

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Lower secondary completion rate (%)	Female	Male
1	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	100.00	100.0000	100.0000
2	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	99.84	99.9016	99.7816
3	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	99.73	99.7249	99.7349
4	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	99.68	99.6949	99.6649
5	TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	99.65	99.6599	99.6399
6	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	99.63	99.6460	99.6160
7	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	99.54	99.5910	99.4910
8	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	99.50	99.4388	99.5588
9	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	99.42	99.3009	99.5009
10	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	99.24	99.3204	99.1704
11	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	99.19	99.3410	99.0510
12	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	99.10	99.3108	98.9008
13	CanadaCANNorthern America	99.08	99.3966	98.7766
14	ItalyITASouthern Europe	99.04	99.2821	98.8121
15	QatarQATWestern Asia	99.02	98.7370	99.2469
16	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	98.99	98.9746	99.0046
17	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	98.97	98.8411	99.0811
18	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	98.93	99.3741	98.4941
19	BelarusBLREastern Europe	98.91	98.9670	98.8570
20	United StatesUSANorthern America	98.88	99.0349	98.7349
21	UkraineUKREastern Europe	98.79	98.9853	98.6053
22	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	98.73	99.0605	98.4205
23	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	98.71	98.6860	98.7360
24	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	98.61	98.7428	98.4828
=25	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	98.58	98.8223	98.3523

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 87.47. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestSouth Korea100.0000

  LowestSouth Sudan8.1761

  Middle country: 90.5326

• Male

  HighestSouth Korea100.0000

  LowestGuinea-Bissau15.2200

  Middle country: 85.4637

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 158values changed, of 160 in both
• 157 · 1rose · fell
• 2unchanged

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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