Data for 1989

Secondary School Enrolment, 1989

Name: Secondary School Enrolment, 1989
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 1989, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Secondary School Enrolment, 1989 covers 86 countries. Seychelles is highest, at 114.04; Burundi is lowest, at 4.30. The middle country reads 41.32. Against 1988, 75 values changed (41 up, 34 down), 11 countries joined, 10 left.

Download CSV Cite this year

Share this page

Secondary School Enrolment · Data for 1989

HighestSeychelles

114.04

LowestBurundi

4.30

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

86countries
1measure
1989the year it describes
86distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Secondary School Enrolment, 1989, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Search this table

Showing 25 of 86 countries · select a heading to sort

Secondary School Enrolment, 1989: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	114.04
2	United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	108.20
3	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	102.67
4	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	102.21
5	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	98.15
6	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	97.90
7	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	96.94
8	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	96.04
9	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	91.79
10	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	90.71
11	American Samoa`ASM`Polynesia	89.99
12	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	88.55
13	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	87.71
14	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	85.33
15	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	83.33
16	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	82.88
17	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	82.66
18	Uruguay`URY`South America	79.31
19	New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	75.05
20	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	75.04
21	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	74.57
22	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	72.14
23	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	67.69
24	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	67.32
25	Peru`PER`South America	65.66
26	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	65.22
27	French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	64.96
28	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	63.83
29	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	60.24
30	Panama`PAN`Central America	58.74
31	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	57.98
32	Suriname`SUR`South America	53.97
33	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	53.62
34	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	53.56
35	Venezuela`VEN`South America	53.40
36	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	52.75
37	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	52.70
38	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	49.25
39	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	47.83
40	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	47.82
41	San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	47.15
42	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	45.80
43	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	42.86
44	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	39.77
45	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	39.16
46	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	38.67
47	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	38.19
48	India`IND`Southern Asia	36.87
49	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	36.58
50	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	35.23
51	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	34.40
52	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	34.04
53	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	33.35
54	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	32.14
55	Paraguay`PRY`South America	31.84
56	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	30.89
57	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	29.33
58	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	26.96
59	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	25.74
60	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	24.65
61	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	23.64
62	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	19.63
63	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	19.31
64	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	17.81
65	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	17.53
66	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	17.11
67	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	16.78
68	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	16.50
69	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	16.26
70	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	15.15
71	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	14.66
72	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	14.65
73	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	14.63
74	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	14.02
75	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	13.41
76	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	12.68
77	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	11.36
78	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	10.45
79	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	10.33
80	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	6.51
81	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	6.39
82	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	5.87
83	Niger`NER`Western Africa	5.56
84	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	5.29
85	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	4.39
86	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	4.30

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Lowest

86Burundi4.30
85Tanzania4.39
84Chad5.29
83Niger5.56
82Guinea-Bissau5.87

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 41.32. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+11 / −10countries joined / left
75values changed, of 75 in both
41 · 34rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Algeria52.77 → 60.24+7.47
Botswana33.40 → 39.16+5.76
Kiribati30.15 → 34.04+3.89
Philippines64.03 → 67.69+3.67
Cuba87.36 → 90.71+3.35

Fell most

Republic of the Congo62.36 → 53.56−8.80
Ghana36.79 → 33.35−3.45
Sierra Leone19.50 → 16.78−2.72
Kuwait77.02 → 74.57−2.45
Madagascar19.22 → 17.53−1.69

+ American Samoa

+ Barbados

+ Guinea

+ Kazakhstan

+ Kyrgyzstan

+ Nigeria

+ French Polynesia

+ Chad

+ Uzbekistan

+ Vanuatu

+ South Africa

− Argentina

− DR Congo

− Iran

− Kenya

− Laos

− São Tomé and Príncipe

− Uganda

− Ukraine

− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

− Zambia

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

The position is ours
UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 86 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

.csv
For a spreadsheet or code
86 rows · 3.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download secondary-enrolment-1989-nations-inquiry.csv
↗
The publisher’s original
UIS’s own file, on its own site.
SE.SEC.ENRR

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) (1989). Secondary School Enrolment, 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/secondary-enrolment/1989

0650 held

Other years

‹ The year before
Secondary School Enrolment, 1988
85 countries
The year after ›
Secondary School Enrolment, 1990
92 countries
All of them
Secondary School Enrolment: every year
50 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country

07Questions