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Report year 2003Data year 2003
Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
23 editions (2000–2023), 54 to 116 countries. The share of adults aged 25 and over who finished upper secondary education or went further — a stock measure of what a country’s working-age population actually holds, rather than what its schools are currently doing. Female and male rates are stored beside the headline. It is the natural companion to `mean-years-schooling`: that one counts years, this one counts whether a threshold was crossed. ⚠ Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written — that drops UIS’s trailing stub year, which opens with a handful of early reporters, and any thin historical year. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Upper Secondary Attainment 2003 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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UIS release 20260507-91260335. Read from the UIS API at full precision, as published — nothing is rounded here. ⚠ Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so anything derived from it carries the same ShareAlike obligation. UIS publishes no rank, so none is stored and none is derived here.
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| Country | ISO Code | Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USA | 91.46 | 91.7 | 91.2 |
| Denmark | DNK | 84.26 | 83.8 | 84.5 |
| Estonia | EST | 82.82 | — | 82.7 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 82.28 | 77.4 | 87.5 |
| Germany | DEU | 78.46 | 71.3 | 86.1 |
| Canada | CAN | 77.69 | — | 78.1 |
| Latvia | LVA | 77.04 | — | 75.1 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 76.61 | 70.9 | 82.9 |
| Poland | POL | 73.68 | 69.6 | 78.3 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 73.57 | 71.8 | 75.8 |
| Austria | AUT | 72.67 | 64.4 | 81.8 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 71.95 | 65.4 | 79.0 |
| Moldova | MDA | 71.18 | 66.6 | 76.6 |
| South Korea | KOR | 67.00 | 58.5 | 75.9 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 64.55 | 55.6 | 74.3 |
| Finland | FIN | 64.40 | 63.7 | 65.1 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 63.92 | 58.3 | 69.7 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 61.48 | 60.3 | 62.8 |
| Australia | AUS | 61.19 | 53.9 | 68.8 |
| Romania | ROU | 60.04 | 52.7 | 68.1 |
| Croatia | HRV | 59.19 | 50.0 | 69.8 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 59.05 | 61.9 | 56.0 |
| Iceland | ISL | 57.67 | 50.9 | 64.4 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 56.44 | 52.8 | 60.5 |
| France | FRA | 55.98 | 52.3 | 60.0 |
| Ireland | IRL | 54.96 | 56.5 | 53.4 |
| Belgium | BEL | 52.61 | 50.3 | 55.0 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 50.53 | 43.2 | 58.2 |
| Philippines | PHL | 48.95 | 49.5 | 48.3 |
| Chile | CHL | 45.90 | 44.9 | 47.0 |
| Greece | GRC | 45.70 | 42.9 | 48.7 |
| Peru | PER | 43.20 | 38.7 | 48.1 |
| Andorra | AND | 42.30 | 42.8 | 41.8 |
| Argentina | ARG | 42.16 | 43.9 | 40.3 |
| Italy | ITA | 38.77 | 36.7 | 41.0 |
| Panama | PAN | 36.10 | 38.7 | 33.4 |
| Spain | ESP | 35.55 | 33.6 | 37.6 |
| Uruguay | URY | 34.45 | 36.6 | 32.0 |
| Colombia | COL | 33.20 | 33.0 | 33.5 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 32.50 | 34.0 | 30.9 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 31.90 | 31.9 | 31.8 |
| Palestine | PSE | 30.83 | 25.4 | 36.1 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 30.00 | 30.3 | 29.7 |
| Oman | OMN | 28.95 | 26.9 | 30.2 |
| Brazil | BRA | 28.10 | 29.1 | 26.9 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 25.70 | 27.4 | 23.8 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 24.80 | 23.4 | 26.5 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 24.08 | 24.0 | 24.2 |
| Mexico | MEX | 20.95 | 17.1 | 25.3 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 20.90 | 17.0 | 24.9 |
| Portugal | PRT | 18.44 | 19.1 | 17.7 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 14.90 | 10.5 | — |
| Guatemala | GTM | 11.04 | 9.4 | 12.9 |
| Haiti | HTI | 3.85 | 2.8 | 5.1 |