Dataset · UIS
Lower Secondary Completion Rate
45 years, 1981–2025 · 164 countries · 3 measures
The lower secondary completion rate is the share of young people who have finished lower secondary school, measured a few years after the age they should have. It is the middle rung of the schooling ladder, between finishing primary and finishing upper secondary.
This site holds every year from 1981 to 2025, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Lower Secondary Completion Rate · the file
- Newest
- Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2025
- Held
- 45 years · 7,240 rows
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
0145 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2025Newest | 164 | +4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2024 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2023 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2022 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2021 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2020 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2019 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2018 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2017 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2016 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2015 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2014 | 160 | ±0 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 45 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: lower-secondary-completion-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 164 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 164 | 0 | |
Lower secondary completion rate (%)lower_secondary_completion_rateHeadline | The headline figure: Lower secondary completion rate (%). | Number · up to 14 decimals | 13.73 | 160 | 0 | |
FemalefemaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 14 decimals | 9.267 | 162 | 0 | |
MalemaleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 14 decimals | 16.0532 | 164 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03164 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 50 |
| Americas | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 29 |
| Asia | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 37 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| All | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 160 | 164 |
The newest 12 of 45 years.
Who joined and who left
Not in this dataset · 61 places this site covers
UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
2 · Their file
Lower Secondary Completion Rate 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
45 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as lower-secondary-completion-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics modelled completion series (CR.MOD.2). Female and male rates are stored beside the headline.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
- Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence
Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.
A credit line
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Lower Secondary Completion Rate, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1981–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion
The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Lower Secondary Completion Rate by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
- Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024
07Questions
Lower Secondary Completion Rate: questions and answers
What is the Lower Secondary Completion Rate?
The lower secondary completion rate is the share of young people who have finished lower secondary school, measured a few years after the age they should have. It is the middle rung of the schooling ladder, between finishing primary and finishing upper secondary.
Which years of the Lower Secondary Completion Rate can I download?
All 45, from 1981 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UIS rank countries on it?
No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.