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Report year 2009Data year 2009
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 2009 — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | ARM | 89.98 | 90.96 | 88.7413 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 88.61 | 85.36 | 92.1664 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 88.37 | 87.09 | 89.7253 |
| Czechia | CZE | 87.25 | 81.71 | 93.1870 |
| United States | USA | 86.71 | 87.13 | 86.2533 |
| Estonia | EST | 85.68 | 87.19 | 83.9088 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 85.23 | 84.60 | 85.9673 |
| Belarus | BLR | 84.85 | 82.47 | 87.8423 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 84.67 | 82.65 | 86.7478 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 83.99 | 78.53 | 90.0368 |
| Latvia | LVA | 83.68 | 86.14 | 80.8131 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 82.72 | 77.06 | 88.7416 |
| Canada | CAN | 81.84 | 81.80 | 81.8826 |
| Germany | DEU | 80.62 | 74.38 | 87.2624 |
| Poland | POL | 79.91 | 76.80 | 83.4411 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 79.43 | 76.99 | 82.4686 |
| Israel | ISR | 77.34 | 77.71 | 76.9419 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 77.32 | 71.60 | 83.3791 |
| Sweden | SWE | 76.96 | 77.35 | 76.5529 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 76.23 | 69.38 | 83.4686 |
| Austria | AUT | 75.81 | 68.06 | 84.1972 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 75.26 | 70.62 | 79.9218 |
| Moldova | MDA | 75.19 | 72.44 | 78.3832 |
| Norway | NOR | 74.89 | 73.42 | 76.4237 |
| Hungary | HUN | 74.54 | 70.55 | 78.9625 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 74.03 | 72.73 | 75.5258 |
| Denmark | DNK | 72.66 | 73.10 | 72.2384 |
| Australia | AUS | 70.86 | 68.23 | 73.4931 |
| Finland | FIN | 69.63 | 69.70 | 69.5635 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 68.26 | 66.63 | 70.0680 |
| Croatia | HRV | 67.40 | 59.93 | 75.8114 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 66.34 | 62.03 | 70.8537 |
| South Korea | KOR | 66.04 | 58.70 | 74.2337 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 65.50 | 67.61 | 63.1404 |
| Romania | ROU | 64.23 | 58.07 | 70.9821 |
| Ireland | IRL | 64.14 | 66.32 | 61.8778 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 63.82 | 60.74 | 67.0070 |
| Iceland | ISL | 63.26 | 60.91 | 65.5355 |
| Singapore | SGP | 63.18 | 60.44 | 66.1602 |
| Serbia | SRB | 62.99 | 56.04 | 70.8535 |
| Belgium | BEL | 61.69 | 59.28 | 64.2848 |
| France | FRA | 60.42 | 58.23 | 62.9709 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 56.73 | 56.63 | 56.8458 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 55.97 | 54.20 | 58.0416 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 55.56 | 47.77 | 63.4439 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 53.46 | 41.33 | 66.6517 |
| Greece | GRC | 52.38 | 50.01 | 54.9206 |
| Chile | CHL | 52.30 | 50.50 | 54.2000 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 49.64 | 54.28 | 44.5732 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 49.42 | 47.85 | 50.9590 |
| Peru | PER | 47.00 | 42.13 | 52.3579 |
| Italy | ITA | 44.73 | 43.26 | 46.3312 |
| Qatar | QAT | 43.39 | 61.81 | 39.7564 |
| Spain | ESP | 43.33 | 42.07 | 44.6664 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 42.99 | 46.47 | 39.4136 |
| Panama | PAN | 41.00 | 42.60 | 39.3000 |
| Albania | ALB | 40.72 | 35.70 | 46.1727 |
| Egypt | EGY | 40.34 | 33.51 | 47.5077 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 39.08 | 32.25 | 46.2050 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 38.44 | 34.42 | 42.7809 |
| Colombia | COL | 37.65 | 38.06 | 37.2010 |
| Brazil | BRA | 37.11 | 38.37 | 35.6863 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 36.60 | 34.80 | 38.6485 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 36.55 | 36.95 | 36.1035 |
| Palestine | PSE | 35.01 | 31.57 | 38.4043 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 34.04 | 33.80 | 34.2944 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 32.30 | 34.70 | 29.8000 |
| Mexico | MEX | 31.35 | 29.38 | 33.5951 |
| Malta | MLT | 28.54 | 25.33 | 31.7265 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 27.84 | 23.84 | 32.1585 |
| Uruguay | URY | 27.75 | 30.29 | 24.8447 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 27.70 | 21.72 | 33.8577 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 27.14 | 25.17 | 29.1289 |
| Kenya | KEN | 27.06 | 21.92 | 32.4554 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 25.68 | 21.44 | 30.4142 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 25.07 | 23.99 | 26.4375 |
| Portugal | PRT | 24.06 | 25.02 | 22.9562 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 23.30 | 14.62 | 31.2763 |
| Syria | SYR | 21.90 | 18.88 | 24.7591 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 21.60 | 22.10 | 21.0000 |
| Honduras | HND | 17.70 | 18.40 | 16.9000 |
| Botswana | BWA | 16.49 | 14.61 | 18.7467 |
| Togo | TGO | 8.90 | 3.31 | 15.3954 |
| Angola | AGO | 7.72 | 5.24 | 10.5884 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 6.26 | 3.32 | 9.7679 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 5.98 | 4.40 | 7.2548 |
| Chad | TCD | 5.10 | 1.84 | 8.5351 |
| Mali | MLI | 3.91 | 1.97 | 5.9381 |