Data for 2017

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017

Name: Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017 covers 111 countries on 3 measures. Belarus is highest, at 97.142; Niger is lowest, at 2.089. The middle country reads 51.186. Against 2016, 84 values changed (62 up, 22 down), 27 countries joined, 20 left.

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Upper Secondary Attainment · Data for 2017

HighestBelarus

97.142

LowestNiger

2.089

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

111countries
3measures per country
2017the year it describes
111distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	97.142	97.1549	97.126
2	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	92.496	91.9181	93.186
3	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	91.346	90.4392	92.477
4	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	90.575	86.7610	94.630
5	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	90.097	90.2291	89.934
6	United States`USA`Northern America	89.814	90.2642	89.332
7	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	88.501	85.0845	92.204
8	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	87.307	86.0538	88.888
9	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	87.072	83.3149	91.161
10	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	86.962	90.0519	83.600
11	Canada`CAN`Northern America	86.464	86.8992	86.009
12	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	84.830	81.1361	88.692
13	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	84.010	83.6993	84.345
14	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	83.665	79.8134	87.667
15	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	83.560	83.3502	83.786
16	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	82.561	78.4124	86.899
17	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	80.670	76.2148	85.179
18	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	80.016	81.8591	77.748
19	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	79.997	74.8217	85.549
20	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	79.663	73.7654	85.939
21	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	79.554	81.1805	77.741
22	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	78.224	77.9733	78.481
23	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	77.630	71.3212	84.147
24	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	77.288	73.1417	82.053
25	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	77.261	75.5376	79.039
26	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	77.112	76.6733	77.568
27	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	76.449	75.3368	77.671
28	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	76.156	75.6834	76.642
29	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	76.146	75.7790	76.521
30	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	75.524	76.3867	74.611
31	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	74.965	73.4732	76.398
32	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	74.770	68.8215	81.443
33	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	74.007	72.2429	76.084
34	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	72.720	69.5650	75.986
35	Marshall Islands`MHL`Micronesia	72.449	69.9849	75.189
36	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	71.810	69.9420	73.849
37	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	71.636	66.2329	77.543
38	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	71.399	68.6273	74.413
39	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	70.777	73.3224	68.085
40	France`FRA`Western Europe	70.075	67.4081	73.034
41	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	69.150	67.6378	70.745
42	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	67.798	67.3744	68.224
43	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	67.445	62.6090	72.708
44	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	67.123	64.5698	68.984
45	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	63.268	61.5970	65.354
46	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	62.504	63.6419	61.170
47	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	61.717	50.4582	73.841
48	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	59.974	58.4599	61.614
49	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	59.972	64.2242	55.402
50	Chile`CHL`South America	59.231	58.3659	60.261
51	Venezuela`VEN`South America	58.068	61.3058	54.712
52	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	57.885	60.4587	55.266
53	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	56.538	50.3751	59.415
54	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	53.880	52.6035	54.682
55	Peru`PER`South America	53.500	48.8000	58.800
56	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	51.186	51.1371	51.238
57	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	51.002	50.3903	51.665
58	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	49.046	45.7717	52.534
59	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	48.284	48.3937	48.165
60	Colombia`COL`South America	47.700	48.8000	46.500
61	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	47.409	41.7519	52.917
62	Panama`PAN`Central America	47.200	49.4000	44.700
63	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	46.353	42.2202	50.767
64	Brazil`BRA`South America	46.174	48.2017	43.874
65	Bolivia`BOL`South America	44.700	41.7000	48.000
66	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	44.556	46.8157	42.307
67	Ecuador`ECU`South America	43.534	43.1543	43.949
68	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	42.403	41.3743	43.534
69	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	41.781	37.1140	—
70	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	41.301	60.1044	36.877
71	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	40.621	40.9683	40.278
72	Belize`BLZ`Central America	39.154	39.6786	38.617
73	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	39.027	32.6172	45.569
74	Paraguay`PRY`South America	38.100	38.3000	37.900
75	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	37.624	39.3810	35.567
76	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	37.600	41.9000	33.000
77	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	36.700	37.6000	35.600
78	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	34.126	33.8290	34.453
79	Mexico`MEX`Central America	34.109	33.0895	35.287
80	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	33.772	30.0725	37.763
81	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	33.261	32.7934	33.771
82	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	30.603	38.1961	26.661
83	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	30.327	27.4893	33.394
84	Uruguay`URY`South America	30.018	33.4409	26.154
85	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	29.794	24.9762	34.641
86	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	29.617	28.2111	31.355
87	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	27.253	21.4119	33.336
88	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	25.794	17.3478	35.029
89	Honduras`HND`Central America	23.047	25.0637	20.576
90	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	17.315	13.7846	20.418
91	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	16.688	11.5241	22.215
92	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	16.097	15.2655	17.227
93	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	15.691	14.5833	16.975
94	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	15.624	9.7357	22.031
95	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	15.599	11.2742	21.385
96	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	15.332	15.1393	15.567
97	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	14.641	10.6841	18.842
98	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	14.548	12.2968	17.185
99	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	12.972	8.2271	18.503
100	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	12.265	9.3581	15.570
101	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	12.186	8.3551	16.539
102	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	11.802	9.2043	15.002
103	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	11.777	4.2400	19.166
104	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	10.863	5.0087	17.263
105	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	9.466	4.2470	15.653
106	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	8.687	6.1954	11.531
107	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	8.161	4.2398	12.549
108	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	6.035	3.2331	9.179
109	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	5.596	3.8378	7.570
110	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	5.014	2.1077	8.525
111	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.089	1.1003	3.133

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

1Belarus97.142
2Georgia92.496
3Russia91.346
4Czechia90.575
5Armenia90.097

Lowest

111Niger2.089
110Benin5.014
109Burundi5.596
108Mali6.035
107Sierra Leone8.161

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 51.186. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestBelarus97.1549
LowestNiger1.1003
Middle country: 50.3903
Male
HighestBelarus97.126
LowestNiger3.133
Middle country: 53.799

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+27 / −20countries joined / left
84values changed, of 84 in both
62 · 22rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

United Arab Emirates53.071 → 67.123+14.053
Myanmar9.868 → 15.332+5.464
Greece54.638 → 59.974+5.336
Liberia21.631 → 25.794+4.163
Senegal6.907 → 10.863+3.956

Fell most

Maldives22.885 → 16.097−6.788
Armenia93.973 → 90.097−3.876
Venezuela61.925 → 58.068−3.857
Finland79.282 → 75.524−3.759
Chile62.457 → 59.231−3.225

+ Afghanistan

+ Burundi

+ Benin

+ Brunei

+ Bhutan

+ Djibouti

+ Fiji

+ United Kingdom

+ Ghana

+ Haiti

+ Jordan

+ Cambodia

+ Kuwait

+ Laos

+ Saint Lucia

+ Morocco

+ Marshall Islands

+ Mozambique

+ Malawi

+ Niger

+ Philippines

+ Puerto Rico

+ Rwanda

+ Saudi Arabia

+ Sierra Leone

+ Togo

+ Zimbabwe

− Andorra

− Bermuda

− Côte d’Ivoire

− DR Congo

− Cook Islands

− Ethiopia

− Guinea

− Iran

− Latvia

− Macau

− North Macedonia

− Malta

− Malaysia

− Nigeria

− New Zealand

− Poland

− Timor-Leste

− Tuvalu

− Uganda

− Uzbekistan

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

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2017). Upper Secondary Attainment, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-attainment/2017

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