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Report year 2006Data year 2006
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 2006 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latvia | LVA | 86.02 | 87.16 | 84.58 |
| United States | USA | 85.75 | 86.41 | 85.04 |
| Czechia | CZE | 85.48 | 79.26 | 92.24 |
| Estonia | EST | 84.92 | 85.88 | 83.77 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 83.12 | 78.56 | 88.03 |
| Sweden | SWE | 79.74 | 81.51 | 78.00 |
| Canada | CAN | 79.40 | 79.12 | 79.71 |
| Germany | DEU | 77.85 | 70.93 | 85.26 |
| Poland | POL | 77.43 | 73.96 | 81.35 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 76.78 | 77.48 | 75.98 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 75.86 | 74.43 | 77.64 |
| Austria | AUT | 75.30 | 67.38 | 83.93 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 75.03 | 69.51 | 81.06 |
| Denmark | DNK | 74.69 | 70.56 | 78.99 |
| Moldova | MDA | 73.34 | 69.95 | 77.32 |
| Norway | NOR | 73.25 | 71.16 | 75.43 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 72.77 | 72.36 | 73.22 |
| Hungary | HUN | 71.19 | — | 75.93 |
| South Korea | KOR | 70.14 | 62.22 | 78.36 |
| Finland | FIN | 67.13 | 66.82 | 67.46 |
| Australia | AUS | 66.71 | 62.58 | 70.93 |
| Ireland | IRL | 66.22 | 69.45 | 63.01 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 64.71 | 59.26 | 70.42 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 64.45 | 62.89 | 66.18 |
| Romania | ROU | 63.57 | 56.74 | 71.05 |
| Croatia | HRV | 62.26 | 53.33 | 72.61 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 61.47 | 63.69 | 58.99 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 61.20 | 58.43 | 64.17 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 60.47 | 55.32 | 65.38 |
| Singapore | SGP | 58.75 | 56.30 | 61.36 |
| Belgium | BEL | 57.73 | 55.47 | 60.17 |
| France | FRA | 54.12 | 50.02 | 58.63 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 54.11 | 52.28 | 56.20 |
| Greece | GRC | 52.90 | 51.44 | 54.46 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 51.81 | 44.14 | 59.61 |
| Cook Islands | COK | 50.43 | 49.86 | 51.01 |
| Andorra | AND | 49.95 | 50.27 | 49.66 |
| Chile | CHL | 47.20 | 45.60 | 48.90 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 44.86 | 38.98 | 50.57 |
| Peru | PER | 44.05 | 39.71 | 48.82 |
| Iran | IRN | 43.35 | 40.67 | 45.53 |
| Spain | ESP | 41.44 | 39.74 | 43.23 |
| Italy | ITA | 41.41 | 39.66 | 43.32 |
| Egypt | EGY | 40.38 | 33.14 | 47.40 |
| Panama | PAN | 38.00 | 39.80 | 36.10 |
| Macau | MAC | 35.70 | 33.50 | 38.07 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 35.20 | 27.77 | 42.90 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 35.09 | 37.54 | 32.55 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 33.50 | 30.47 | 36.81 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 33.10 | 32.60 | 33.70 |
| Brazil | BRA | 32.42 | 33.72 | 30.97 |
| Colombia | COL | 32.27 | 32.27 | 32.27 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 31.30 | 32.00 | 30.40 |
| Palestine | PSE | 31.22 | 26.82 | 35.57 |
| Mexico | MEX | 30.26 | 28.33 | 32.54 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 28.70 | 30.80 | 26.50 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 27.35 | 26.28 | 28.49 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 26.41 | 22.75 | 28.40 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 25.56 | 31.33 | 22.93 |
| Uruguay | URY | 24.74 | 26.90 | 22.25 |
| Algeria | DZA | 24.15 | 20.90 | 27.38 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 23.35 | 14.59 | 31.44 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 23.20 | 16.71 | 29.73 |
| Thailand | THA | 22.57 | 21.25 | 24.01 |
| Portugal | PRT | 22.41 | 23.22 | 21.49 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 20.88 | 14.74 | 24.14 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 19.85 | 13.11 | 26.46 |
| Honduras | HND | 15.82 | 16.34 | 15.18 |
| Botswana | BWA | 13.22 | 9.55 | 17.96 |
| Ghana | GHA | 12.40 | 7.52 | 18.14 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 10.59 | 9.29 | 12.16 |
| Mali | MLI | 5.49 | 6.33 | 4.56 |
| Maldives | MDV | 5.23 | 4.07 | 6.42 |
| Senegal | SEN | 4.93 | 2.80 | 7.52 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 4.01 | 2.30 | 6.04 |
| Burundi | BDI | 3.15 | 2.46 | 3.89 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 1.31 | 0.70 | 1.98 |