Upper Secondary Attainment, 2020

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%)	Female	Male
1	UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	98.294	97.961	98.637
2	BelarusBLREastern Europe	97.626	97.801	97.425
3	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	92.481	92.047	92.999
4	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	91.814	91.235	92.533
5	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	90.999	87.896	94.276
6	United StatesUSANorthern America	90.941	91.301	90.553
7	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	89.881	89.966	89.775
8	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	89.866	89.026	90.877
9	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	89.139	86.040	92.499
10	CanadaCANNorthern America	88.138	88.501	87.761
11	PolandPOLEastern Europe	87.778	85.946	89.822
12	PalauPLWMicronesia	87.559	90.098	85.462
13	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	86.870	84.024	89.805
14	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	85.755	86.112	85.333
15	IsraelISRWestern Asia	85.186	85.314	85.050
16	JapanJPNEastern Asia	85.177	84.354	86.085
17	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	84.830	81.159	88.536
18	SeychellesSYCEastern Africa	84.314	82.952	85.822
19	Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	84.262	85.754	82.519
20	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	84.212	84.833	83.606
21	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	83.696	80.736	86.807
22	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	82.244	82.530	81.947
23	MontenegroMNESouthern Europe	81.922	77.679	86.452
24	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	80.944	75.779	86.414
25	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	80.053	79.137	81.006

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.348. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUzbekistan97.961

  LowestMali3.203

  Middle country: 66.253

• Male

  HighestUzbekistan98.637

  LowestMali7.814

  Middle country: 67.590

• +21 / −37countries joined / left
• 79values changed, of 79 in both
• 57 · 22rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Bahrain+ Belize+ China+ Curaçao+ Estonia+ United Kingdom+ Gambia+ India+ Japan+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Montserrat+ Malawi+ New Zealand+ Oman+ Palau+ Poland+ Puerto Rico+ San Marino− United Arab Emirates− Azerbaijan− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bangladesh− Bahamas− Central African Republic− Cuba− Algeria− Ethiopia− Guinea-Bissau− Guatemala− Guyana− Honduras− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− Lebanon− Liberia− Latvia− Marshall Islands− Myanmar− Malaysia− New Caledonia− Niger− Nigeria− Norway− Nepal− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Togo− Tuvalu− Uganda− Uruguay− Samoa− 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.

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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.

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