Data for 1990

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1990

Name: Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1990
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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, 1990 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.77; Burundi is lowest, at 2.41. The middle country reads 53.16. Against 1989, 155 values changed (124 up, 31 down), 4 left.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1990

HighestSouth Korea

99.77

LowestBurundi

2.41

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

160countries
3measures per country
1990the year it describes
157distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 29, 2026read from the publisher
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01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1990, 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, 1990: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.77	99.7495	99.789
2	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	99.64	99.6859	99.596
3	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	99.55	99.5346	99.565
4	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.53	99.5453	99.515
5	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.48	99.4795	99.479
6	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	99.42	99.4502	99.390
7	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	99.28	99.4000	99.160
8	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	99.13	99.3179	98.958
9	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	99.11	99.1993	99.019
10	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	98.98	98.8431	99.113
11	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	98.96	98.9141	99.004
12	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	98.84	99.1211	98.551
13	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.77	98.7293	98.809
14	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	98.23	99.2038	97.334
15	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	97.97	98.5811	97.381
16	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	97.93	97.8455	98.015
=17	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	97.80	97.7626	97.813
=17	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	97.80	97.4116	98.192
=19	Canada`CAN`Northern America	97.33	97.7866	96.897
=19	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	97.33	97.1366	97.527
21	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	97.15	96.2859	97.976
22	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	97.04	96.8976	97.138
=23	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	96.90	96.2726	97.513
=23	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	96.90	97.9603	95.950
25	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	96.56	97.0042	96.134
26	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	96.35	96.6457	96.066
27	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	96.34	96.4753	96.215
28	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	96.00	96.3245	95.674
29	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	95.94	96.0064	95.876
30	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	95.48	94.1793	96.759
31	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	95.21	95.8424	94.602
32	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	95.07	94.0090	96.119
33	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	94.89	94.6232	95.143
34	United States`USA`Northern America	94.86	95.2312	94.511
35	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	94.67	95.0704	94.280
36	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	94.66	94.1241	95.174
37	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	94.65	95.3224	94.002
38	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	93.97	94.9316	93.052
39	France`FRA`Western Europe	93.86	93.4675	94.238
40	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	93.25	92.7991	93.679
41	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	93.19	92.5723	93.782
42	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	93.06	93.0760	93.046
43	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	92.97	96.4442	90.014
44	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	91.89	89.3044	94.674
45	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	91.73	94.6796	88.920
46	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	91.13	89.7286	92.469
47	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	91.02	92.9014	89.241
48	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	89.05	90.6164	87.446
49	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	88.61	86.5899	90.610
50	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	87.18	86.7370	87.607
51	Chile`CHL`South America	87.15	87.7486	86.569
52	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	86.84	83.4799	90.040
53	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	86.43	87.1154	85.785
54	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	84.22	85.3553	83.145
55	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	83.73	86.2839	81.154
56	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	81.28	71.8581	86.008
57	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	77.65	76.9319	78.352
58	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	76.69	77.0122	76.382
59	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	71.35	78.8691	63.849
60	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	71.02	72.1345	70.004
61	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	69.72	72.3191	67.289
62	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	69.53	73.1498	65.940
63	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	69.05	74.6750	63.425
64	Argentina`ARG`South America	67.07	69.6859	64.496
65	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	66.73	68.0568	65.317
66	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	66.53	67.2178	65.878
67	Uruguay`URY`South America	64.37	67.7898	61.110
68	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	64.04	65.1303	62.980
69	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	63.40	55.7212	71.691
70	Mexico`MEX`Central America	63.29	62.7508	63.851
71	Peru`PER`South America	60.68	56.5321	64.762
72	Guyana`GUY`South America	59.04	61.7475	56.227
73	Panama`PAN`Central America	58.96	61.8973	56.107
74	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	57.35	61.1971	53.687
75	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	54.64	59.6846	49.695
76	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	54.44	46.1736	62.114
77	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	54.15	55.2760	53.056
78	Bolivia`BOL`South America	53.95	49.7405	58.071
79	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	53.77	53.5269	53.997
80	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	53.57	61.2666	46.077
81	Venezuela`VEN`South America	52.75	57.4620	48.152
82	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	52.26	53.6735	50.864
83	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	51.72	50.6489	52.779
84	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	51.62	42.8860	59.876
85	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	51.13	50.6355	51.405
86	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	50.78	46.0563	55.426
87	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	50.19	42.4480	57.548
88	Ecuador`ECU`South America	49.67	50.2600	49.090
89	Brazil`BRA`South America	48.70	53.0562	44.396
90	Paraguay`PRY`South America	44.98	44.6800	45.270
91	Colombia`COL`South America	44.44	48.9621	40.042
92	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	44.31	40.2175	48.288
93	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	43.62	41.9932	45.183
94	India`IND`Southern Asia	42.10	30.5449	52.845
95	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	41.10	35.3014	46.911
96	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	39.94	36.0167	43.847
97	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	38.54	38.1900	38.880
98	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	38.23	36.8989	39.629
99	Suriname`SUR`South America	36.81	38.8142	34.904
100	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	36.33	26.0032	46.223
101	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	36.10	34.4582	37.738
102	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	33.84	28.2636	39.354
103	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	30.62	29.4381	31.848
104	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	30.01	24.3994	35.739
105	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	29.82	25.6395	33.599
106	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	29.53	26.2144	32.864
107	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	29.37	24.6638	33.984
108	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	29.14	20.1448	38.095
109	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	28.80	25.9182	31.598
110	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	28.67	20.8653	36.455
111	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	28.30	23.8509	32.611
112	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	26.75	26.6537	26.844
113	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	26.62	29.6596	23.570
114	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	26.18	15.0380	36.698
115	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	25.90	21.7470	30.007
116	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	24.51	20.3254	28.245
117	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	23.32	21.2023	25.142
118	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	22.89	15.5216	30.142
119	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	22.77	11.0634	34.443
120	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	22.39	12.2892	32.849
121	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	22.10	5.0751	38.625
122	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	21.42	15.9503	26.860
123	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	21.04	18.0517	24.052
124	Honduras`HND`Central America	20.62	21.7467	19.487
125	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	20.42	14.2895	26.739
126	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	20.21	10.6622	29.962
127	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	19.31	19.5188	19.109
128	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	18.47	9.8980	26.968
129	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	18.10	12.0293	24.309
130	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	17.72	8.0608	26.891
131	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	17.33	14.0616	20.212
132	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	17.08	11.7446	22.595
133	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	16.68	8.2681	24.978
134	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	16.42	14.7181	18.098
135	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	16.38	8.9548	24.265
136	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	16.13	19.1633	13.063
137	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	14.73	9.8588	19.669
138	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	12.31	10.8617	13.752
139	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	11.51	5.0505	17.710
140	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	11.14	3.7635	18.323
141	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	10.38	4.4371	16.337
142	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	10.34	4.5619	16.382
143	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	10.00	7.5441	12.484
144	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	9.93	6.3289	13.589
145	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	8.43	5.4469	11.907
146	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	8.09	5.1665	10.807
147	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	8.07	3.8500	12.220
148	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	7.83	4.0730	11.623
149	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	7.75	4.5073	11.147
150	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	7.46	6.0947	8.835
151	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	6.45	4.3104	8.690
152	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	5.94	1.9274	9.907
153	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	5.75	4.2769	7.277
154	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	5.69	3.1357	8.186
155	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	5.40	3.2581	7.538
156	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	5.37	2.3069	8.457
157	Niger`NER`Western Africa	4.54	2.8114	6.201
158	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	3.88	1.7797	5.970
159	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	3.18	2.0441	4.224
160	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2.41	1.9702	2.850

02In 1990

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea99.77
2United Kingdom99.64
3Denmark99.55
4Finland99.53
5Norway99.48

Lowest

160Burundi2.41
159Mozambique3.18
158South Sudan3.88
157Niger4.54
156Chad5.37

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 53.16. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea99.7495
LowestSouth Sudan1.7797
Middle country: 53.2915
Male
HighestSouth Korea99.789
LowestBurundi2.850
Middle country: 53.372

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

+0 / −4countries joined / left
155values changed, of 160 in both
124 · 31rose · fell
5unchanged

Rose most

Portugal51.15 → 53.57+2.42
Saint Lucia49.86 → 52.26+2.40
Iran49.57 → 51.62+2.05
Palestine42.33 → 44.31+1.98
South Africa64.81 → 66.53+1.72

Fell most

Mongolia72.98 → 71.35−1.63
Vietnam52.62 → 51.72−0.90
Iraq30.09 → 29.37−0.72
Botswana38.76 → 38.23−0.53
Madagascar16.87 → 16.42−0.45

− Afghanistan

− Belize

− Eswatini

− Tunisia

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

04Caveats

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157 distinct values among 160
Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 97.80. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1990). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/1990

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