Data for 2018

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2018

Name: Upper Secondary Attainment, 2018
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2018, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Attainment, 2018 covers 113 countries on 3 measures. Belarus is highest, at 97.41; Niger is lowest, at 1.95. The middle country reads 53.94. Against 2017, 82 values changed (66 up, 16 down), 30 countries joined, 28 left.

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Upper Secondary Attainment · Data for 2018

HighestBelarus

97.41

LowestNiger

1.95

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

113countries
3measures per country
2018the year it describes
113distinct values15 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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	97.41	97.514	97.300
2	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	97.40	96.898	97.970
3	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	96.15	95.275	97.050
4	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	94.47	95.561	93.287
5	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	92.40	91.856	93.051
6	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	91.52	90.690	92.545
7	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	90.58	86.950	94.434
8	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	90.30	92.405	87.882
9	United States`USA`Northern America	89.81	90.159	89.424
10	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	88.55	87.576	89.766
11	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	88.43	84.944	92.203
12	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	87.78	84.306	91.551
13	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	87.63	90.704	84.315
14	Canada`CAN`Northern America	87.17	87.627	86.699
15	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	85.68	82.524	88.969
16	Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	83.86	83.356	84.429
17	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	83.49	83.447	83.546
18	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	83.46	80.110	86.941
19	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	83.17	83.759	82.599
20	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	82.78	79.064	86.610
21	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	82.16	82.201	82.127
22	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	80.62	75.787	85.786
23	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	80.59	81.427	79.712
24	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	80.40	81.734	78.872
25	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	80.07	74.201	86.314
26	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	79.28	80.424	78.129
27	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	78.56	74.705	82.916
28	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	78.33	76.886	79.808
29	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	77.95	71.685	84.394
30	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	77.34	76.624	78.133
31	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	75.93	70.364	82.168
32	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	75.65	75.423	75.873
33	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	75.28	77.783	72.641
34	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	75.24	74.000	76.680
35	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	74.85	74.257	75.529
36	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	73.52	70.566	76.747
37	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	73.09	69.816	76.387
38	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	72.98	71.683	74.390
39	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	71.71	66.730	77.147
40	France`FRA`Western Europe	71.15	68.710	73.879
41	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	71.10	67.594	74.752
42	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	70.07	69.049	71.131
43	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	69.14	65.536	70.406
44	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	68.38	67.834	68.885
45	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	68.32	63.693	73.319
46	Chile`CHL`South America	65.77	65.240	66.338
47	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	64.93	62.914	65.894
48	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	63.88	65.038	62.439
49	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	63.87	62.308	65.837
50	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	63.51	52.500	75.390
51	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	63.03	64.323	61.529
52	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	62.77	67.507	57.075
53	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	61.15	65.338	56.645
54	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	60.84	59.148	62.677
55	Peru`PER`South America	58.04	53.384	62.808
56	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	56.61	53.005	58.839
57	San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	53.94	56.036	51.626
58	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	53.45	49.730	57.332
59	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	52.00	51.386	52.666
60	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	50.42	50.415	50.419
61	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	49.89	45.222	54.742
62	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	49.85	46.908	52.983
63	Colombia`COL`South America	49.77	50.978	48.471
64	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	49.71	44.396	55.108
65	Brazil`BRA`South America	47.43	49.506	45.066
66	Panama`PAN`Central America	47.20	49.900	44.200
67	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	45.22	43.323	47.067
68	Bolivia`BOL`South America	45.20	41.500	49.200
69	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	44.19	47.929	41.160
70	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	43.73	44.493	42.957
71	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	42.83	41.624	44.145
72	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	42.60	43.202	42.010
73	Ecuador`ECU`South America	42.30	41.900	42.700
74	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	42.08	42.278	41.855
75	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	40.09	32.276	48.278
76	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	39.70	42.900	36.100
77	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	39.66	40.761	38.405
78	Paraguay`PRY`South America	39.38	39.309	39.456
79	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	37.08	39.112	34.715
80	Mexico`MEX`Central America	35.65	34.803	36.627
81	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	34.60	30.991	38.272
82	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	33.50	27.740	39.461
83	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	33.31	32.642	34.032
84	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	32.80	30.900	35.000
85	India`IND`Southern Asia	32.34	24.958	39.606
86	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	31.20	39.284	27.140
87	Guyana`GUY`South America	30.83	32.227	—
88	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	30.67	27.646	33.899
89	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	30.54	25.992	35.295
90	Uruguay`URY`South America	30.44	33.784	26.673
91	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	26.06	19.483	32.797
92	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	25.22	15.686	36.300
93	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	23.38	17.375	29.522
94	Honduras`HND`Central America	23.07	24.316	21.574
95	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	20.47	20.885	19.996
96	Suriname`SUR`South America	20.24	23.247	16.792
97	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	19.93	14.296	26.812
98	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	17.58	12.491	23.818
99	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	15.42	15.389	—
100	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	14.83	8.776	—
101	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	14.26	10.265	18.774
102	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	9.86	8.270	11.721
103	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	9.71	8.527	10.976
104	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	9.05	6.437	11.679
105	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	8.21	8.509	7.869
106	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	7.48	3.261	12.314
107	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	7.39	3.493	11.868
108	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	7.20	4.579	10.860
109	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	7.12	3.966	10.524
110	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	6.93	4.974	9.277
111	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	6.15	3.579	9.040
112	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	4.05	2.964	5.333
113	Niger`NER`Western Africa	1.95	0.997	3.062

02In 2018

At either end

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

Highest

1Belarus97.41
2Kazakhstan97.40
3Uzbekistan96.15
4Armenia94.47
5Georgia92.40

Lowest

113Niger1.95
112Tanzania4.05
111Burkina Faso6.15
110Guinea-Bissau6.93
109Mali7.12

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 53.94. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestBelarus97.514
LowestNiger0.997
Middle country: 52.500
Male
HighestKazakhstan97.970
LowestNiger3.062
Middle country: 57.203

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+30 / −28countries joined / left
82values changed, of 83 in both
66 · 16rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Bahrain56.54 → 64.93+8.39
Sweden76.15 → 83.17+7.03
Sierra Leone8.16 → 14.83+6.67
Chile59.23 → 65.77+6.54
Finland75.52 → 80.59+5.06

Fell most

Türkiye39.03 → 33.50−5.52
Rwanda14.55 → 9.86−4.69
Jordan48.28 → 43.73−4.55
Senegal10.86 → 7.20−3.66
Netherlands72.72 → 71.10−1.61

+ Antigua and Barbuda

+ Burkina Faso

+ Cameroon

+ DR Congo

+ Guinea

+ Gambia

+ Guinea-Bissau

+ Grenada

+ Guyana

+ India

+ Iraq

+ Kazakhstan

+ Kiribati

+ Lebanon

+ Lesotho

+ Luxembourg

+ Latvia

+ Madagascar

+ North Macedonia

+ Malta

+ Nigeria

+ Papua New Guinea

+ San Marino

+ Suriname

+ Chad

+ Tonga

+ Tanzania

+ Ukraine

+ Uzbekistan

+ Zambia

− Afghanistan

− Burundi

− Benin

− Belize

− Bhutan

− Djibouti

− Fiji

− United Kingdom

− Ghana

− Guatemala

− Haiti

− Cambodia

− Laos

− Liberia

− Saint Lucia

− Morocco

− Maldives

− Marshall Islands

− Mozambique

− Malawi

− Philippines

− Puerto Rico

− Qatar

− Togo

− Tajikistan

− Tunisia

− Venezuela

− Zimbabwe

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) (2018). Upper Secondary Attainment, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-attainment/2018

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