Primary Completion Rate

Primary completion rate (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

We hold 45 editions of this indicator, from 1981 to 2025 — 7,390 rows in total, and 165 countries in the newest.

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45 editions (1981–2025), 143 to 165 countries. The share of children who finish primary school — SDG indicator 4.1.2, and the one measure here of whether a schooling system carries a child all the way through rather than merely enrolling them. Female and male rates are stored beside the headline. ⚠ THE SERIES CHANGED ON 2026-09-12, from UIS's directly reported figures (CR.1) to its MODELLED estimates (CR.MOD.1), and the difference is the whole reason this indicator is now useful: the reported version covered 50 to 71 countries on a ragged calendar because household surveys do not run on one, while the model harmonises MICS, DHS and national surveys with administrative data and publishes 164–165 countries every year to 2025. UIS built that model because it says the raw survey readings are inconsistent between rounds. ⚠ MODELLED MEANS THE RECENT YEARS ARE ESTIMATES for countries that have not surveyed lately — nowcasts of an observed trend, not scenario projections, and the same kind of series as the ILO modelled unemployment estimates this site already uses. ⚠ The two versions are different measurements and are never spliced: these editions were rewritten wholesale, not appended to the old ones. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.

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The year a report is NAMED for and the year its numbers DESCRIBE are different facts, and they disagree constantly — so both are listed. Every row opens the full country table for that edition, sortable by any column.

Every edition of Primary Completion Rate held on this site, newest first, with the report year, the year the data describes, and the size of each table.
Edition	Report year	Data year	Countries	Columns
Primary Completion Rate 2025Latest	2025	2025	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 2024	2024	2024	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2023	2023	2023	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2022	2022	2022	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2021	2021	2021	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2020	2020	2020	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2019	2019	2019	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2018	2018	2018	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2017	2017	2017	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2016	2016	2016	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2015	2015	2015	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2014	2014	2014	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2013	2013	2013	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2012	2012	2012	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2011	2011	2011	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2010	2010	2010	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2009	2009	2009	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2008	2008	2008	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2007	2007	2007	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2006	2006	2006	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2005	2005	2005	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2004	2004	2004	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2003	2003	2003	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2002	2002	2002	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2001	2001	2001	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 2000	2000	2000	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1999	1999	1999	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1998	1998	1998	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1997	1997	1997	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1996	1996	1996	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1995	1995	1995	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1994	1994	1994	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1993	1993	1993	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1992	1992	1992	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1991	1991	1991	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1990	1990	1990	164	5
Primary Completion Rate 1989	1989	1989	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1988	1988	1988	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1987	1987	1987	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1986	1986	1986	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1985	1985	1985	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1984	1984	1984	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1983	1983	1983	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1982	1982	1982	165	5
Primary Completion Rate 1981	1981	1981	165	5

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