Data for 1983

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983

Name: Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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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.

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983 covers 164 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.63; Burundi is lowest, at 1.51. The middle country reads 46.58. Against 1982, 164 values changed (156 up, 8 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1983

HighestSouth Korea

99.63

LowestBurundi

1.51

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

164countries
3measures per country
1983the year it describes
163distinct values15 decimals, as published
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01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.63	99.5828	99.67
2	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	99.58	99.6214	99.54
=3	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	99.45	99.4081	99.49
=3	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.45	99.4607	99.44
5	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	99.43	99.4659	99.40
6	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.35	99.3080	99.39
7	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	99.25	99.2807	99.22
8	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	99.12	99.2201	99.02
9	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	99.02	99.1481	98.90
10	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	98.89	99.1485	98.63
11	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	98.83	98.7739	98.88
12	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	98.77	98.5498	98.99
13	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.61	98.5219	98.68
14	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	97.99	99.0178	97.02
15	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	97.79	97.6479	97.93
16	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	97.52	97.4564	97.62
17	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	97.50	98.1966	96.82
18	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	97.25	96.6080	97.90
19	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	96.87	96.5429	97.21
20	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	96.71	97.6905	95.77
21	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	96.52	96.4900	96.55
22	Canada`CAN`Northern America	96.47	97.0749	95.89
23	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	96.46	95.3196	97.55
24	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	96.43	96.7613	96.11
25	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	96.33	95.5543	97.09
26	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	96.22	96.0526	96.37
27	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	95.54	95.5966	95.49
28	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	95.50	95.9928	95.06
29	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	95.19	95.2660	95.12
30	United States`USA`Northern America	94.78	94.9483	94.62
31	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	94.63	93.6169	95.59
32	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	94.49	92.6840	96.28
33	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	94.25	91.8273	96.68
34	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	94.08	94.0343	94.12
35	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	93.51	94.2052	92.84
36	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	93.40	94.0625	92.76
37	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	93.00	91.7146	94.17
38	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	92.68	91.3323	93.98
39	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	92.52	91.9183	93.09
40	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	92.16	93.3881	90.98
41	France`FRA`Western Europe	92.15	91.2307	93.04
42	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	91.98	91.3599	92.55
43	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	91.75	95.2308	88.62
44	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	90.84	93.2542	88.54
45	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	90.64	88.8687	92.31
46	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	90.62	91.6945	89.59
47	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	90.53	91.5731	89.43
48	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	89.07	84.4162	93.61
49	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	87.55	84.7483	90.40
50	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	86.42	85.6234	87.18
51	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	83.44	77.5520	89.01
52	Chile`CHL`South America	81.24	81.0533	81.42
53	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	80.01	78.5536	81.41
54	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	78.79	80.7423	76.78
55	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	78.55	78.3813	78.71
56	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	77.38	64.7316	83.32
57	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	77.01	82.6828	71.23
58	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	73.05	72.9938	73.10
59	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	66.30	65.8995	66.68
60	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	65.79	64.7622	66.79
61	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	65.32	68.6450	61.99
62	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	65.17	66.2795	64.08
63	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	63.30	62.0872	64.48
64	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	61.32	64.3503	58.29
65	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	61.28	51.1352	71.15
66	Argentina`ARG`South America	60.59	62.3926	58.82
67	Uruguay`URY`South America	59.29	62.0454	56.60
68	Panama`PAN`Central America	58.06	61.3343	54.86
69	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	57.65	58.5040	56.82
70	Mexico`MEX`Central America	56.73	53.9038	59.57
71	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	56.48	56.1172	56.84
72	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	55.01	51.2214	58.75
73	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	53.01	56.0158	50.06
74	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	52.79	55.2675	50.44
75	Peru`PER`South America	52.52	47.0053	57.98
76	Guyana`GUY`South America	50.03	51.5410	48.49
77	Venezuela`VEN`South America	49.20	51.7781	46.68
78	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	48.78	46.8961	50.55
79	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	47.35	45.5828	49.08
80	Ecuador`ECU`South America	47.16	46.5709	47.74
81	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	47.10	45.3476	48.76
82	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	46.64	36.8445	55.98
83	Brazil`BRA`South America	46.53	49.4641	43.62
84	Bolivia`BOL`South America	46.22	41.2637	51.11
85	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	43.84	33.8120	53.35
86	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	41.04	41.1313	40.95
87	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	40.62	29.5600	50.72
88	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	40.55	46.1587	35.02
89	Paraguay`PRY`South America	39.76	38.6072	40.90
90	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	37.66	31.1050	44.15
91	Colombia`COL`South America	36.94	39.8910	34.07
92	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	36.44	34.4496	38.35
93	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	35.11	30.6270	39.67
94	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	34.53	27.7498	41.15
95	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	34.26	31.4491	37.31
96	Suriname`SUR`South America	33.98	34.7982	33.21
97	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	32.87	29.3293	36.27
98	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	31.73	23.7516	39.58
99	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	31.67	23.1826	40.00
100	India`IND`Southern Asia	31.23	19.1823	42.43
101	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	30.86	20.8787	40.15
102	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	30.36	18.4547	42.26
103	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	29.56	23.8458	35.27
104	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	29.18	28.3592	30.13
105	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	28.98	19.8105	37.57
106	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	28.51	23.1672	33.93
107	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	28.29	21.2021	35.50
108	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	27.50	18.7139	36.39
109	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	27.23	23.0981	31.36
110	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	26.36	21.1534	31.42
111	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	25.82	19.0094	32.43
112	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	25.51	27.0033	24.01
113	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	25.47	22.2149	28.84
114	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	24.01	18.6652	29.27
115	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	23.08	22.5040	23.63
116	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	22.89	16.4877	28.65
117	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	21.67	9.6566	32.98
118	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	21.65	12.8870	29.78
119	Honduras`HND`Central America	20.62	21.5201	19.70
120	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	20.27	17.7226	22.64
121	Belize`BLZ`Central America	19.41	18.2168	20.59
122	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	18.56	9.1731	28.20
123	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	18.32	13.0488	23.43
124	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	18.12	10.4798	25.46
125	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	17.69	14.8078	20.66
126	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	17.50	11.2393	23.75
127	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	17.03	14.3774	19.65
128	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	16.89	7.0183	27.61
129	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	16.76	5.2681	28.31
130	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	16.34	12.2344	19.77
131	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	16.27	15.7969	16.73
132	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	16.24	0.1010	32.17
133	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	15.92	7.7858	23.93
134	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	15.70	6.6281	24.75
135	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	14.91	8.5305	21.09
136	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	13.81	16.3787	11.09
137	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	13.56	8.2160	18.98
138	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	13.15	4.6379	22.19
139	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	11.55	2.7290	19.89
140	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	10.05	4.9452	15.41
141	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	9.75	6.2324	13.33
142	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	9.14	4.2026	14.12
143	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	8.23	4.6612	11.88
144	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	8.07	2.6393	13.91
145	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	7.86	4.2370	11.98
146	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	7.85	2.7962	12.95
147	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	7.68	3.9516	11.65
148	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	7.20	5.0833	9.32
149	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	6.37	3.7497	9.34
150	Niger`NER`Western Africa	6.22	3.1438	9.17
151	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	5.79	1.7855	9.76
152	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	5.71	2.9860	8.49
153	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	5.54	0.5543	10.43
154	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	5.20	2.6075	7.78
155	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	4.94	0.5948	9.06
156	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	4.86	3.5749	6.14
157	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	4.59	2.5899	6.64
158	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	3.77	1.7642	5.79
159	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	3.65	0.7316	6.60
160	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	3.31	0.0000	7.61
161	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	3.14	1.5805	4.70
162	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	2.96	1.1430	4.75
163	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2.51	1.4194	3.68
164	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	1.51	0.9859	2.04

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

1South Korea99.63
2United Kingdom99.58
3Denmarkshared99.45
3Finlandshared99.45
5Austria99.43

Lowest

164Burundi1.51
163Mozambique2.51
162South Sudan2.96
161Burkina Faso3.14
160Maldives3.31

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 46.58. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestUnited Kingdom99.6214
LowestMaldives0.0000
Middle country: 45.4652
Male
HighestSouth Korea99.67
LowestBurundi2.04
Middle country: 48.62

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

+0 / −0countries joined / left
164values changed, of 164 in both
156 · 8rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Trinidad and Tobago63.41 → 65.79+2.38
Saint Lucia34.39 → 36.44+2.05
Palestine30.04 → 31.73+1.69
Indonesia36.02 → 37.66+1.64
Iran39.14 → 40.62+1.48

Fell most

China48.05 → 46.64−1.41
São Tomé and Príncipe22.59 → 21.65−0.94
Vietnam55.32 → 55.01−0.31
Costa Rica41.34 → 41.04−0.30
Niger6.47 → 6.22−0.25

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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163 distinct values among 164
Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 99.45. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Every one of the 164 countries has every column.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1983). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/1983

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