Upper Secondary Attainment, 2001

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2001: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%)	Female	Male
1	United StatesUSANorthern America	91.17	91.2	91.1
2	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	83.25	—	88.1
3	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	82.37	81.0	83.8
4	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	81.58	81.1	82.2
5	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	79.24	71.6	—
6	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	77.56	69.9	85.7
7	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	75.28	—	78.7
8	UkraineUKREastern Europe	74.32	71.1	78.4
9	PolandPOLEastern Europe	71.61	67.4	76.4
10	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	71.60	69.3	74.5
11	New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	71.19	71.3	71.1
12	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	70.98	62.6	80.2
13	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	68.88	61.5	76.9
14	CanadaCANNorthern America	67.75	63.5	71.5
15	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	64.67	55.2	74.6
16	SamoaWSMPolynesia	63.04	65.3	60.9
17	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	61.35	55.8	67.0
18	RomaniaROUEastern Europe	60.22	—	67.9
19	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	59.60	50.5	70.0
20	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	59.46	57.9	61.2
21	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	59.31	50.9	68.1
22	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	56.10	55.6	56.6
23	HungaryHUNEastern Europe	55.07	49.0	62.2
24	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	54.67	51.0	58.7
25	FranceFRAWestern Europe	54.01	49.8	58.6

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 41.79. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States91.2

  LowestTanzania0.2

  Middle country: 39.1

• Male

  HighestUnited States91.1

  LowestTanzania1.5

  Middle country: 42.0

• +30 / −23countries joined / left
• 34values changed, of 34 in both
• 29 · 5rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Anguilla+ Albania+ Argentina+ Armenia+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Bahrain+ Brazil+ Costa Rica+ Dominica+ Denmark+ Honduras+ Croatia+ Hungary+ Sri Lanka+ Luxembourg+ Macau+ Madagascar+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Nepal+ New Zealand+ Paraguay+ Slovakia+ Timor-Leste+ Tanzania+ Ukraine+ Samoa+ South Africa− Aruba− Bahamas− Bermuda− Barbados− Chile− China− Estonia− Ghana− Guatemala− India− Liechtenstein− Latvia− Mexico− Malta− Mongolia− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Palau− Puerto Rico− Saudi Arabia− Thailand− Tajikistan

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.

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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.

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