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Report year 1978Data year 1978
Gross secondary enrolment ratio (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
50 reference years (1971-2024), covering 84 to 156 countries, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and pulled through the World Bank indicator API (SE.SEC.ENRR). ⚠ This is a GROSS ratio, so it can legitimately exceed 100%: it divides everyone enrolled in secondary school, at any age, by the population of official secondary-school age, and repeaters and over-age pupils push several countries well past 100 (Monaco is at 158 in 2024). A figure above 100 is therefore not an error and does not mean universal enrolment. ⚠ There is a five-year hole from 1995 to 1998 - UNESCO reported too few countries in those years to publish, so the trend line has a real gap rather than an interpolation. ⚠ A statistic, not an index: no rank is published, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and labelled as ours.
Secondary School Enrolment 1978 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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Gross enrolment ratios as published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and served through the World Bank's indicator API (SE.SEC.ENRR) — total secondary enrolment of any age as a share of the population of official secondary-school age. UNESCO does not rank countries on it, so no rank is stored and none is derived.
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross secondary enrolment ratio (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Monaco | MCO | 153.117 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 105.191 |
| Belarus | BLR | 97.949 |
| Barbados | BRB | 87.550 |
| United States | USA | 85.617 |
| Tonga | TON | 84.955 |
| Albania | ALB | 83.421 |
| Iceland | ISL | 82.834 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 76.782 |
| Grenada | GRD | 76.179 |
| Fiji | FJI | 72.136 |
| Jordan | JOR | 69.442 |
| Samoa | WSM | 68.923 |
| Gibraltar | GIB | 68.672 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 64.726 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 64.365 |
| Dominica | DMA | 63.224 |
| Panama | PAN | 61.312 |
| Cuba | CUB | 60.763 |
| Uruguay | URY | 58.644 |
| Peru | PER | 57.956 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 57.733 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 55.980 |
| Philippines | PHL | 55.632 |
| Argentina | ARG | 55.047 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 53.551 |
| China | CHN | 53.201 |
| Congo, Rep. | COG | 50.602 |
| Libya | LBY | 50.459 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 49.253 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 49.230 |
| Venezuela, RB | VEN | 47.724 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 46.920 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 46.354 |
| Suriname | SUR | 46.214 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 42.530 |
| San Marino | SMR | 41.053 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 39.804 |
| Qatar | QAT | 38.126 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 36.457 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 34.088 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 33.841 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 33.586 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 32.872 |
| Ghana | GHA | 31.285 |
| Gabon | GAB | 28.385 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 27.543 |
| Thailand | THA | 27.323 |
| Honduras | HND | 26.998 |
| India | IND | 26.604 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 26.601 |
| Algeria | DZA | 26.310 |
| Kenya | KEN | 24.945 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 24.675 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 23.972 |
| Togo | TGO | 22.864 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 22.466 |
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | COD | 22.061 |
| Liberia | LBR | 20.294 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 20.010 |
| Botswana | BWA | 19.721 |
| Morocco | MAR | 19.397 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 18.281 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 18.041 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 16.472 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 15.902 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 15.742 |
| Guinea | GIN | 15.104 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 14.763 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 14.621 |
| Malawi | MWI | 14.403 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 14.003 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 13.821 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 13.301 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 12.710 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 12.590 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 10.833 |
| Senegal | SEN | 10.451 |
| Gambia, The | GMB | 9.866 |
| Benin | BEN | 9.181 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 9.179 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 8.911 |
| Angola | AGO | 8.472 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 8.318 |
| Mali | MLI | 7.989 |
| Oman | OMN | 4.860 |
| Guinea-Bissau | GNB | 4.748 |
| Uganda | UGA | 4.355 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 3.564 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 3.563 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 3.386 |
| Somalia, Fed. Rep. | SOM | 3.052 |
| Niger | NER | 2.483 |
| Burundi | BDI | 2.375 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 2.011 |