Upper Secondary Attainment, 2003

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2003: 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	91.46	91.7	91.2
2	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	84.26	83.8	84.5
3	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	82.82	—	82.7
4	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	82.28	77.4	87.5
5	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	78.46	71.3	86.1
6	CanadaCANNorthern America	77.69	—	78.1
7	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	77.04	—	75.1
8	TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	76.61	70.9	82.9
9	PolandPOLEastern Europe	73.68	69.6	78.3
10	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	73.57	71.8	75.8
11	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	72.67	64.4	81.8
12	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	71.95	65.4	79.0
13	MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	71.18	66.6	76.6
14	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	67.00	58.5	75.9
15	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	64.55	55.6	74.3
16	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	64.40	63.7	65.1
17	NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	63.92	58.3	69.7
18	BulgariaBGREastern Europe	61.48	60.3	62.8
19	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	61.19	53.9	68.8
20	RomaniaROUEastern Europe	60.04	52.7	68.1
21	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	59.19	50.0	69.8
22	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	59.05	61.9	56.0
23	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	57.67	50.9	64.4
24	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	56.44	52.8	60.5
25	FranceFRAWestern Europe	55.98	52.3	60.0

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 51.57. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States91.7

  LowestHaiti2.8

  Middle country: 44.9

• Male

  HighestUnited States91.2

  LowestHaiti5.1

  Middle country: 55.0

• +16 / −26countries joined / left
• 38values changed, of 38 in both
• 34 · 4rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Andorra+ Chile+ Colombia+ Estonia+ Finland+ Guatemala+ Haiti+ Ireland+ Latvia+ Moldova+ Mexico+ Montenegro+ Mongolia+ Oman+ Philippines+ Tajikistan− Anguilla− Albania− Armenia− Antigua and Barbuda− Bangladesh− Bahrain− Bolivia− Czechia− Dominica− Honduras− Hungary− Cambodia− Sri Lanka− Macau− Madagascar− Namibia− Nicaragua− Norway− Nepal− New Zealand− Slovakia− Timor-Leste− Tanzania− Ukraine− Samoa− South Africa

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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