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Report year 2020Data year 2020
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 2020 — 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 (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Palau | PLW | 160.800 |
| Belgium | BEL | 151.728 |
| Finland | FIN | 143.123 |
| Australia | AUS | 137.491 |
| Sweden | SWE | 136.426 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 136.284 |
| Aruba | ABW | 135.125 |
| Ireland | IRL | 133.497 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 132.679 |
| Denmark | DNK | 129.995 |
| Curacao | CUW | 129.470 |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 127.844 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 120.228 |
| Norway | NOR | 119.942 |
| Portugal | PRT | 118.683 |
| Spain | ESP | 118.338 |
| Uruguay | URY | 116.992 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 116.893 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 114.617 |
| Poland | POL | 112.576 |
| Estonia | EST | 112.528 |
| Turkiye | TUR | 112.527 |
| Argentina | ARG | 112.377 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 111.195 |
| Iceland | ISL | 110.487 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 110.359 |
| Canada | CAN | 109.628 |
| Georgia | GEO | 108.067 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 107.079 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 106.811 |
| Latvia | LVA | 105.956 |
| Qatar | QAT | 105.869 |
| Croatia | HRV | 105.585 |
| Dominica | DMA | 105.182 |
| France | FRA | 104.567 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 104.411 |
| Barbados | BRB | 104.319 |
| Grenada | GRD | 104.299 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 104.212 |
| Brazil | BRA | 103.883 |
| Chile | CHL | 103.692 |
| Greece | GRC | 103.616 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 103.501 |
| Singapore | SGP | 103.116 |
| Mexico | MEX | 102.582 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 102.188 |
| Hungary | HUN | 101.941 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 101.936 |
| Italy | ITA | 101.836 |
| Austria | AUT | 101.691 |
| Colombia | COL | 101.499 |
| Cuba | CUB | 101.488 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 101.355 |
| Japan | JPN | 101.341 |
| Germany | DEU | 101.308 |
| Belarus | BLR | 100.576 |
| United States | USA | 100.510 |
| Gibraltar | GIB | 100.500 |
| Hong Kong SAR, China | HKG | 100.450 |
| Peru | PER | 100.139 |
| Malta | MLT | 100.113 |
| Czechia | CZE | 99.329 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 99.164 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 98.309 |
| Israel | ISR | 98.096 |
| Andorra | AND | 97.150 |
| Korea, Rep. | KOR | 97.089 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 96.935 |
| Moldova | MDA | 96.173 |
| Albania | ALB | 95.929 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 95.383 |
| Oman | OMN | 94.543 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 93.985 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 93.192 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 92.969 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 92.358 |
| Serbia | SRB | 92.241 |
| Kyrgyz Republic | KGZ | 92.166 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 91.949 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 91.581 |
| Fiji | FJI | 91.542 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 91.366 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 91.187 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 90.901 |
| Slovak Republic | SVK | 90.813 |
| Tonga | TON | 90.464 |
| West Bank and Gaza | PSE | 90.254 |
| Jordan | JOR | 90.199 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 90.064 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 89.771 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 89.502 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 88.867 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 88.738 |
| Macao SAR, China | MAC | 88.577 |
| Armenia | ARM | 88.508 |
| Philippines | PHL | 87.942 |
| Guyana | GUY | 86.940 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 86.812 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 86.686 |
| Romania | ROU | 86.417 |
| Belize | BLZ | 86.189 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 85.667 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 85.559 |
| Nepal | NPL | 85.310 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | IRN | 85.191 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 84.741 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 84.428 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 84.091 |
| Namibia | NAM | 82.887 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 82.442 |
| Thailand | THA | 82.367 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 81.534 |
| Morocco | MAR | 80.309 |
| Naoero | NRU | 80.243 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 80.044 |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | EGY | 79.654 |
| India | IND | 77.627 |
| Tuvalu | TUV | 77.077 |
| Ghana | GHA | 74.010 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 73.950 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 73.246 |
| Suriname | SUR | 73.117 |
| Maldives | MDV | 69.898 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 66.433 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 65.897 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 65.184 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 62.561 |
| Lao PDR | LAO | 62.449 |
| San Marino | SMR | 61.860 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 59.169 |
| Honduras | HND | 58.427 |
| Cote d'Ivoire | CIV | 55.438 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 51.820 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 51.796 |
| Burundi | BDI | 44.915 |
| Senegal | SEN | 44.787 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 44.553 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 44.122 |
| Benin | BEN | 43.986 |
| Malawi | MWI | 41.457 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 39.254 |
| Syrian Arab Republic | SYR | 39.073 |
| Liberia | LBR | 37.742 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 36.028 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 30.921 |