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Primary Completion Rate, 2018

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

Primary Completion Rate, 2018 covers 164 countries on 3 measures. 2 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; South Sudan is lowest, at 7.38. The middle country reads 96.81. Against 2017, 151 values changed (145 up, 6 down), the same countries are covered.

Primary Completion Rate · Data for 2018

Highest2 countries share it

100.00

LowestSouth Sudan

7.38

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 Primary 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 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Primary Completion Rate, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
=1GermanyDEUWestern Europe100.00100.0000100.0000
=1JapanJPNEastern Asia100.00100.0000100.0000
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.9999.995199.9851
4IsraelISRWestern Asia99.95100.000099.8867
5AustriaAUTWestern Europe99.9499.939699.9396
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe99.9399.924899.9348
=7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.8899.875999.8859
=7ItalyITASouthern Europe99.8899.885199.8752
9CzechiaCZEEastern Europe99.8799.880399.8603
=10CanadaCANNorthern America99.8499.926899.7568
=10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.8499.886299.7962
=10United StatesUSANorthern America99.8499.840099.8400
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe99.7899.789099.7690
=14IrelandIRLNorthern Europe99.7699.770299.7502
=14UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia99.7699.821599.7015
=16BelarusBLREastern Europe99.7599.760699.7406
=16TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.7599.708499.7884
=18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe99.7499.750499.7304
=18NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.7499.729299.7492
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe99.7299.704999.7349
=21CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe99.7199.698999.7189
=21QatarQATWestern Asia99.7199.638699.7786
=23GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia99.6899.748099.6180
=23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa99.6899.604399.7543
25Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe99.6699.814599.5145

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. 1Germanyshared100.00
  2. 1Japanshared100.00
  3. 3South Korea99.99
  4. 4Israel99.95
  5. 5Austria99.94

Lowest

  1. 164South Sudan7.38
  2. 163Guinea-Bissau26.10
  3. 162Somalia26.77
  4. 161Liberia28.67
  5. 160Central African Republic28.90

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 96.81. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest3 share it

    LowestSouth Sudan5.8074

    Middle country: 97.1453

  • Male

    Highest2 share it

    LowestSouth Sudan8.9174

    Middle country: 96.2385

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
  • 151values changed, of 164 in both
  • 145 · 6rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

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
  • 147 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 3 countries share 99.84. 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 164 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). Primary Completion Rate, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/primary-completion/2018

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07Questions

Primary Completion Rate, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest primary completion rate in Primary Completion Rate, 2018?

2 countries share the highest reading, 100.00, so no single country is named.

What year does Primary Completion Rate, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Primary Completion Rate, 2018 cover?

164.

Where can I download Primary 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 Primary Completion Rate, 2018 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Primary Completion Rate, 2025.

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