Dataset · UIS
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.
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion · the file
- Newest
- Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 111 rows
- Licence
- 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.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion, 2024 compilation | 111 | — | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 111 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 111 | 0 | |
Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity)completion_wealth_parityHeadline | The headline figure: Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity). | Number · up to 16 decimals | 0.03152 | 111 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 17 | 0 | |
Survey (UIS footnote)data_sourceLabel | UIS’s own footnote naming the household survey this reading comes from and the ages it covered, or the team that calculated it. | Text | — | 111 | 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. 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.
| 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 47 |
| Americas | 13 |
| Asia | 33 |
| Europe | 9 |
| Oceania | 9 |
| All | 111 |
One edition, covering 111 countries.
Not in this dataset · 114 places this site covers
UIS gives no figure for these in any edition 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
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion — UIS (readings to 2024)
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: lower-secondary-wealth-parity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked October 3, 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), 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
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion 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
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.