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Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion

Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation · 111 countries

This index compares how often young people from the poorest fifth of households complete lower secondary school with how often those from the richest fifth do. 1 means the two complete at the same rate; 0.5 means the poorest complete at half the rate of the richest. It is part of SDG indicator 4.5.1, the measure of equity in education.

This site holds one edition, Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation
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1 edition · 111 rows
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CC BY-SA 4.0

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation111—October 3, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: lower-secondary-wealth-parity-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.

Every column in the newest file of Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1110
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1110
Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity)completion_wealth_parityHeadlineThe headline figure: Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity).Number · up to 16 decimals0.03152Madagascar1.02222Azerbaijanmiddle 0.529141110
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—170
Survey (UIS footnote)data_sourceLabelUIS’s own footnote naming the household survey this reading comes from and the ages it covered, or the team that calculated it.Text—1110

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. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

03111 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, by continent.
2024
Africa47
Americas13
Asia33
Europe9
Oceania9
All111

One edition, covering 111 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion — UIS (readings to 2024)

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    October 3, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 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 (CR.2.WPIA), each country's latest available reading, with UIS's own footnote naming the survey behind it. Readings UIS took from the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean are left out.

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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • 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), Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/lower-secondary-wealth-parity

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

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07Questions

Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion: questions and answers

What is the Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion?

This index compares how often young people from the poorest fifth of households complete lower secondary school with how often those from the richest fifth do. 1 means the two complete at the same rate; 0.5 means the poorest complete at half the rate of the richest. It is part of SDG indicator 4.5.1, the measure of equity in education.

Which editions of the Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion can I download?

One: Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation, as a CSV file.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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