Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2024

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2024: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Lower secondary completion rate (%)	Female	Male
1	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	100.00	99.9999	99.9999
2	QatarQATWestern Asia	99.99	100.0000	99.9590
3	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	99.89	99.9566	99.8266
4	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	99.77	99.7863	99.7563
5	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	99.73	99.7458	99.7158
6	TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	99.70	99.7108	99.6908
7	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	99.68	99.7055	99.6555
8	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	99.61	99.6457	99.5757
9	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	99.57	99.5391	99.5991
10	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	99.52	99.4234	99.6134
11	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	99.34	99.5254	99.1655
12	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	99.32	99.3813	99.2613
13	ItalyITASouthern Europe	99.25	99.4609	99.0509
14	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	99.17	99.3690	98.9790
15	CanadaCANNorthern America	99.16	99.4542	98.8742
16	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	99.05	98.9109	99.1709
17	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	99.03	99.0197	99.0397
18	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	99.00	99.4421	98.5721
19	United StatesUSANorthern America	98.99	99.1343	98.8543
20	BelarusBLREastern Europe	98.98	99.0467	98.9167
21	UkraineUKREastern Europe	98.87	99.0800	98.6700
22	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	98.86	99.2036	98.5336
23	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	98.82	98.8105	98.8305
24	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	98.80	98.9840	98.6240
25	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	98.77	99.0014	98.5514

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 89.02. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  Highest2 share it

  LowestSouth Sudan8.9053

  Middle country: 92.0712

• Male

  HighestSouth Korea99.9999

  LowestGuinea-Bissau15.8622

  Middle country: 87.4391

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 159values changed, of 160 in both
• 159 · 0rose · fell
• 1unchanged

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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