Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2025

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2025: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Lower secondary completion rate (%)	Female	Male
=1	QatarQATWestern Asia	100.00	100.000	99.9623
=1	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	100.00	100.000	100.0000
3	United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	99.90	99.961	99.8415
4	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	99.80	99.815	99.7853
5	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	99.74	99.761	99.7209
6	TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia	99.72	99.736	99.7060
7	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	99.70	99.731	99.6712
8	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	99.65	99.691	99.6108
9	KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia	99.59	99.559	99.6194
10	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	99.55	99.445	99.6151
11	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	99.38	99.576	99.1961
12	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	99.35	99.401	99.3011
13	ItalyITASouthern Europe	99.31	99.505	99.1254
14	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	99.20	99.399	99.0088
15	CanadaCANNorthern America	99.19	99.479	98.9088
16	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	99.07	98.926	99.2063
17	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	99.04	99.029	99.0491
18	United StatesUSANorthern America	99.03	99.169	98.8990
19	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	99.01	99.452	98.5823
20	BelarusBLREastern Europe	99.00	99.072	98.9323
=21	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	98.89	99.245	98.5547
=21	UkraineUKREastern Europe	98.89	99.104	98.6845
23	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	98.86	98.860	98.8600
24	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	98.85	99.049	98.6590
25	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	98.84	99.066	98.6262

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 89.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  Highest3 share it

  LowestSouth Sudan9.267

  Middle country: 92.039

• Male

  HighestSouth Korea100.0000

  LowestGuinea-Bissau16.0532

  Middle country: 86.6243

• +4 / −0countries joined / left
• 159values changed, of 160 in both
• 159 · 0rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Belize+ Eswatini+ Tunisia

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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