Data for 2009

Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2009

Name: Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2009
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, 2009 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.95; Niger is lowest, at 7.44. The middle country reads 77.40. Against 2008, 157 values changed (147 up, 10 down), the same countries are covered.

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Lower Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2009

HighestSouth Korea

99.95

LowestNiger

7.44

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

160countries
3measures per country
2009the year it describes
156distinct values14 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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.95	99.9554	99.9454
2	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	99.66	99.7059	99.6159
3	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	99.59	99.5895	99.5895
4	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	99.54	99.5502	99.5302
5	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	99.53	99.5351	99.5251
6	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	99.28	99.1785	99.3785
7	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	99.27	99.3745	99.1645
8	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	99.10	99.1514	99.0514
9	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	99.06	99.3888	98.7388
10	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	99.00	99.1083	98.8983
11	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	98.95	98.9091	98.9891
=12	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	98.92	98.7456	99.0956
=12	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	98.92	99.1695	98.6795
14	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	98.85	98.7940	98.9040
15	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	98.72	99.0156	98.4456
16	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	98.63	99.0594	98.1694
=17	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	98.59	98.5332	98.6432
=17	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	98.59	98.8820	98.3120
19	Canada`CAN`Northern America	98.56	98.9527	98.1827
20	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	98.24	97.9740	98.4940
21	United States`USA`Northern America	98.20	98.5258	97.8958
22	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	98.12	98.4930	97.7630
23	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	98.10	99.0122	97.2222
24	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	98.05	97.9323	98.1623
25	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	98.01	98.2379	97.7779
26	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	98.00	98.0893	97.9093
27	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	97.98	98.4685	97.5185
28	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	97.83	98.3308	97.3508
29	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	97.66	97.8686	97.4486
30	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	97.63	97.8353	97.4253
31	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	97.62	97.5995	97.6395
=32	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	97.53	97.8541	97.2241
=32	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	97.53	97.6288	97.4388
34	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	97.20	98.2759	96.1659
35	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	96.84	97.6378	96.0878
36	France`FRA`Western Europe	96.77	97.3165	96.2465
37	Chile`CHL`South America	96.70	97.6906	95.7506
38	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	96.48	96.5038	96.4638
39	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	96.24	97.5100	95.0500
40	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	96.02	97.0109	95.1909
41	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	95.98	96.0517	95.9117
42	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	95.78	96.3017	95.2717
43	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	95.71	98.0651	93.5051
44	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	95.58	95.9787	95.1987
45	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	94.75	95.4852	93.9852
46	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	94.18	95.3804	93.0204
47	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	94.06	93.7566	94.3566
48	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	93.80	94.1485	93.4685
49	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	93.64	94.2656	93.0356
50	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	92.79	90.9233	94.7233
51	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	92.65	92.3694	92.9194
52	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	92.41	91.6287	93.1487
53	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	91.71	93.2712	90.2612
54	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	91.22	93.1129	89.3729
55	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	90.08	91.0612	89.1412
56	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	88.11	93.2931	83.1831
=57	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	88.05	91.3567	84.8467
=57	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	88.05	88.9486	87.1886
59	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	87.03	88.8450	85.3250
60	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	86.81	81.3547	92.6747
61	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	86.26	85.1198	86.8598
62	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	85.90	88.3782	83.4882
63	Bolivia`BOL`South America	85.13	84.6384	85.6084
64	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	84.96	88.7314	81.3314
65	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	84.03	88.4000	79.8000
66	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	83.95	87.0510	80.9310
67	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	83.71	84.5791	82.9291
68	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	83.66	89.0135	78.3935
69	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	83.55	84.7946	82.3746
70	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	82.55	83.8774	81.2774
71	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	82.45	77.3600	87.2900
72	Guyana`GUY`South America	81.64	84.9710	78.3010
73	Mexico`MEX`Central America	81.29	83.0128	79.5628
74	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	80.47	86.6718	74.3018
75	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	80.17	79.5249	80.7849
76	Peru`PER`South America	79.65	78.8865	80.4165
77	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	79.40	84.5604	74.3904
78	Argentina`ARG`South America	78.28	81.9928	74.7328
79	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	78.16	77.7592	78.5392
80	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	77.89	88.0400	67.7400
81	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	76.91	81.3159	73.7259
82	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	76.53	84.3019	68.7319
83	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	76.39	79.0192	73.7392
84	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	76.27	81.6590	71.0290
85	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	74.61	75.7897	73.4297
86	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	73.80	75.0207	72.6406
87	Brazil`BRA`South America	73.57	79.1008	68.1808
88	Colombia`COL`South America	72.95	77.3683	68.6583
89	Panama`PAN`Central America	71.63	75.4057	67.9957
90	Uruguay`URY`South America	70.85	75.4064	66.4964
91	India`IND`Southern Asia	70.12	66.0823	73.8223
92	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	69.45	76.7801	62.5301
93	Ecuador`ECU`South America	69.07	69.9906	68.1806
94	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	67.38	68.2124	66.4824
95	Paraguay`PRY`South America	64.75	67.6048	62.0048
96	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	63.64	63.0352	64.2452
97	Venezuela`VEN`South America	62.48	70.9488	54.3788
98	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	62.06	65.1581	58.7581
99	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	60.34	64.8701	56.0001
100	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	60.10	56.4307	63.6507
101	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	52.67	50.0675	54.9975
102	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	51.68	58.1171	45.7170
103	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	51.20	53.9537	48.4437
104	Suriname`SUR`South America	50.94	57.0984	45.1584
105	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	50.34	49.7531	50.9131
106	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	49.35	45.1524	53.5624
107	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	47.82	50.0636	45.6336
108	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	47.81	38.4303	57.0503
109	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	47.35	49.4782	45.2882
110	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	45.24	49.3121	41.0221
111	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	44.02	40.5934	47.3634
112	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	42.23	39.1367	45.3167
113	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	42.21	44.1766	40.3166
114	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	41.83	39.5145	44.1745
115	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	41.66	46.9940	36.3040
116	Honduras`HND`Central America	41.03	46.1697	36.0797
117	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	40.83	42.1045	39.5745
118	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	40.69	28.4190	52.4590
119	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	39.93	38.4126	41.4126
120	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	39.18	40.0633	38.2833
121	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	39.09	34.5005	43.4005
122	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	38.58	35.3027	41.6927
123	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	36.69	32.5171	40.8571
124	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	36.14	37.4857	34.8457
125	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	35.98	35.7629	36.1929
126	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	35.79	35.9669	35.6069
127	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	35.61	37.3186	33.9286
128	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	33.14	32.9346	33.3246
129	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	32.79	30.9764	34.5264
130	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	32.72	27.6256	37.8456
131	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	32.60	31.8069	33.3669
132	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	32.54	30.2561	34.8161
133	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	28.79	34.8215	22.6315
134	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	27.89	27.5039	28.2739
135	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	27.19	29.6749	24.7149
136	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	26.46	19.3995	33.3895
137	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	26.34	18.1424	33.5624
138	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	26.33	22.1485	30.4785
139	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	25.25	20.9342	29.6942
140	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	22.03	20.6100	23.4700
141	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	21.91	13.5061	30.2361
142	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	21.68	15.8101	27.6201
143	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	21.39	13.1805	29.4305
144	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	20.28	17.9073	22.9273
145	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	19.60	18.4228	20.7528
146	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	18.94	10.2571	27.3871
147	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	18.19	14.6389	21.7889
148	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	18.01	15.7113	20.3113
149	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	17.54	11.8551	23.0751
150	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	16.39	15.1649	17.5749
151	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	15.92	15.9786	15.8586
152	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	15.86	12.3123	19.4623
153	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	11.87	6.1132	17.5432
154	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	11.43	8.4212	14.3712
155	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	11.16	8.9724	13.3324
156	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	9.93	7.0968	12.7768
157	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	9.44	6.6048	12.3248
158	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	8.54	4.9375	12.1275
159	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	8.42	6.2554	10.6254
160	Niger`NER`Western Africa	7.44	4.6604	10.1004

02In 2009

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea99.95
2United Kingdom99.66
3Denmark99.59
4Finland99.54
5Norway99.53

Lowest

160Niger7.44
159Mozambique8.42
158South Sudan8.54
157Central African Republic9.44
156Burundi9.93

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 77.40. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea99.9554
LowestNiger4.6604
Middle country: 79.3128
Male
HighestSouth Korea99.9454
LowestNiger10.1004
Middle country: 73.7808

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

+0 / −0countries joined / left
157values changed, of 160 in both
147 · 10rose · fell
3unchanged

Rose most

Bhutan49.15 → 52.67+3.52
Nepal46.62 → 49.35+2.73
São Tomé and Príncipe38.43 → 40.83+2.40
Tanzania15.81 → 18.19+2.38
Algeria49.32 → 51.68+2.36

Fell most

Uruguay71.27 → 70.85−0.42
Austria99.20 → 99.10−0.10
Latvia98.14 → 98.10−0.04
Papua New Guinea33.18 → 33.14−0.04
Romania93.68 → 93.64−0.04

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

156 distinct values among 160
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 98.92. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Every one of the 160 countries has every column.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2009). Lower Secondary Completion Rate, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-completion/2009

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