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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009

Figures for 2009, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009 covers 88 countries on 3 measures. Armenia is highest, at 89.98; Mali is lowest, at 3.91. The middle country reads 55.76. Against 2008, 68 values changed (57 up, 11 down), 20 countries joined, 15 left.

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Upper Secondary Attainment · Data for 2009

HighestArmenia

89.98

LowestMali

3.91

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 88 countries · select a heading to sort

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1ArmeniaARMWestern Asia89.9890.9688.7413
2AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia88.6185.3692.1664
3KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia88.3787.0989.7253
4CzechiaCZEEastern Europe87.2581.7193.1870
5United StatesUSANorthern America86.7187.1386.2533
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe85.6887.1983.9088
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia85.2384.6085.9673
8BelarusBLREastern Europe84.8582.4787.8423
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe84.6782.6586.7478
10SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe83.9978.5390.0368
11LatviaLVANorthern Europe83.6886.1480.8131
12SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe82.7277.0688.7416
13CanadaCANNorthern America81.8481.8081.8826
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe80.6274.3887.2624
15PolandPOLEastern Europe79.9176.8083.4411
16LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe79.4376.9982.4686
17IsraelISRWestern Asia77.3477.7176.9419
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe77.3271.6083.3791
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe76.9677.3576.5529
20TajikistanTJKCentral Asia76.2369.3883.4686
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe75.8168.0684.1972
22LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe75.2670.6279.9218
23MoldovaMDAEastern Europe75.1972.4478.3832
24NorwayNORNorthern Europe74.8973.4276.4237
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe74.5470.5578.9625

02In 2009

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Armenia89.98
  2. 2Azerbaijan88.61
  3. 3Kyrgyzstan88.37
  4. 4Czechia87.25
  5. 5United States86.71

Lowest

  1. 88Mali3.91
  2. 87Chad5.10
  3. 86Mozambique5.98
  4. 85Cambodia6.26
  5. 84Angola7.72

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 55.76. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestArmenia90.96

    LowestChad1.84

    Middle country: 55.16

  • Male

    HighestCzechia93.1870

    LowestMali5.9381

    Middle country: 59.9597

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −15countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 57 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Armenia+ Belarus+ Botswana+ United Kingdom+ Israel+ Kazakhstan+ Kenya+ Kyrgyzstan+ Cambodia+ Sri Lanka+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Malaysia+ Nicaragua+ Chad+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Vietnam+ South Africa− Burundi− Cayman Islands− Algeria− Iran− Jordan− Kuwait− Lesotho− Mauritius− Nepal− Oman− Puerto Rico− Sudan− South Sudan− Tanzania− Uganda

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

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

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 88 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2009). Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-attainment/2009

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07Questions

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest upper secondary attainment in Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009?

Armenia, at 89.98, of the 88 countries in the file.

What year does Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009 cover?

88.

Where can I download Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Upper Secondary Attainment, 2009 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Upper Secondary Attainment, 2023.

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