Data for 2000

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000

Name: Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2000, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000 covers 57 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 90.84; Cambodia is lowest, at 5.91. The middle country reads 42.50.

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Upper Secondary Attainment · Data for 2000

HighestUnited States

90.84

LowestCambodia

5.91

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

57countries
3measures per country
2000the year it describes
56distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1	United States`USA`Northern America	90.84	90.906	90.757
2	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	85.70	86.385	84.935
3	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	81.93	80.374	83.471
4	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	79.09	73.635	85.017
5	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	78.96	73.640	84.447
6	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	78.48	70.383	—
7	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	76.18	68.384	84.492
8	Canada`CAN`Northern America	74.46	—	75.041
9	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	74.44	74.327	74.562
10	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	73.40	71.855	75.386
11	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	72.56	69.521	76.313
12	Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	71.49	62.502	80.876
13	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	71.46	72.054	70.693
14	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	70.94	74.665	66.245
15	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	70.73	66.407	75.584
16	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	69.88	61.050	79.606
17	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	68.65	61.520	76.452
18	Palau`PLW`Micronesia	66.81	64.555	69.155
19	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	63.71	55.297	72.571
20	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	60.60	54.482	66.934
21	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	59.24	52.028	67.149
22	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	57.37	56.082	58.796
23	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	53.37	55.777	50.832
24	France`FRA`Western Europe	53.13	48.913	57.785
25	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	53.07	49.808	56.570
26	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	52.97	46.290	59.586
27	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	50.00	48.302	51.841
28	Chile`CHL`South America	43.90	42.400	45.600
29	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	42.50	39.530	45.705
30	Peru`PER`South America	41.80	37.200	46.900
31	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	39.40	—	40.986
32	Ecuador`ECU`South America	38.96	38.685	39.250
33	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	36.41	33.444	39.331
34	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	35.71	35.756	35.660
35	Panama`PAN`Central America	33.68	35.797	31.565
36	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	31.27	28.917	33.802
37	Venezuela`VEN`South America	30.10	31.400	28.700
38	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	30.07	23.496	34.592
39	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	30.00	24.504	35.325
40	Bolivia`BOL`South America	29.70	26.000	33.800
41	Uruguay`URY`South America	25.24	23.523	27.362
42	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	24.21	25.402	22.893
43	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	22.00	22.300	21.600
44	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	21.80	20.300	23.700
45	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	21.40	17.247	25.613
=46	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	20.40	17.121	23.826
=46	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	20.40	17.121	23.826
48	Mexico`MEX`Central America	18.58	15.174	22.317
49	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	17.72	12.843	22.856
50	Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	16.40	14.746	18.273
51	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	15.77	15.754	15.793
52	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	13.81	10.596	16.990
53	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	12.76	9.139	16.556
54	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	12.70	11.400	14.200
55	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	10.91	10.448	11.441
56	India`IND`Southern Asia	9.77	5.650	13.820
57	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	5.91	3.216	9.197

02In 2000

At either end

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

Highest

1United States90.84
2Bermuda85.70
3Norway81.93
4Switzerland79.09
5Tajikistan78.96

Lowest

57Cambodia5.91
56India9.77
55Thailand10.91
54Guatemala12.70
53Türkiye12.76

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 42.50. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestUnited States90.906
LowestCambodia3.216
Middle country: 39.530
Male
HighestUnited States90.757
LowestCambodia9.197
Middle country: 45.653

03Caveats

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

How values are stored

56 distinct values among 57
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 20.40. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
3 empty cells
An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2000). Upper Secondary Attainment, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-attainment/2000

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