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Primary Completion Rate, 2022

Figures for 2022, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Primary Completion Rate, 2022 covers 164 countries on 3 measures. 5 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; South Sudan is lowest, at 7.68. The middle country reads 97.45. Against 2021, 151 values changed (150 up, 1 down), the same countries are covered.

Share

Primary Completion Rate · Data for 2022

Highest5 countries share it

100.00

LowestSouth Sudan

7.68

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Primary Completion Rate, 2022, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Primary Completion Rate, 2022: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
=1GermanyDEUWestern Europe100.00100.0000100.0000
=1IsraelISRWestern Asia100.00100.000099.9610
=1JapanJPNEastern Asia100.00100.0000100.0000
=1QatarQATWestern Asia100.00100.000099.9711
=1South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.00100.0000100.0000
6AustriaAUTWestern Europe99.9599.955599.9455
=7SwedenSWENorthern Europe99.9499.934699.9446
=7United StatesUSANorthern America99.9499.945299.9352
9ItalyITASouthern Europe99.9199.915299.9052
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe99.9099.894999.9049
11CzechiaCZEEastern Europe99.8999.905399.8753
12CanadaCANNorthern America99.8799.961599.7815
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe99.8699.906199.8161
14MauritiusMUSEastern Africa99.8399.768999.8889
15SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe99.8099.809799.7897
16TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia99.7999.749699.8296
=17BelarusBLREastern Europe99.7899.775299.7852
=17IrelandIRLNorthern Europe99.7899.790399.7703
=17UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia99.7899.831599.7315
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe99.7799.780299.7602
21NorwayNORNorthern Europe99.7699.759599.7595
=22GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia99.7599.821299.6812
=22SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe99.7599.745299.7552
=24Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe99.7399.896199.5761
=24CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe99.7399.730099.7300

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Germanyshared100.00
  2. 1Israelshared100.00
  3. 1Japanshared100.00
  4. 1South Koreashared100.00
  5. 1Qatarshared100.00

Lowest

  1. 164South Sudan7.68
  2. 163Somalia27.95
  3. 162Guinea-Bissau28.65
  4. 161Liberia29.04
  5. 160Central African Republic30.03

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 97.45. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest5 share it

    LowestSouth Sudan6.4690

    Middle country: 97.8521

  • Male

    Highest3 share it

    LowestSouth Sudan8.8690

    Middle country: 97.1361

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 164 in both
  • 150 · 1rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • 144 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 5 countries share 100.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 164 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2022). Primary Completion Rate, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/primary-completion/2022

0645 held

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07Questions

Primary Completion Rate, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest primary completion rate in Primary Completion Rate, 2022?

5 countries share the highest reading, 100.00, so no single country is named.

What year does Primary Completion Rate, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Primary Completion Rate, 2022 cover?

164.

Where can I download Primary Completion Rate, 2022?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Primary Completion Rate, 2022 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Primary Completion Rate, 2025.

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