Upper Secondary Attainment, 2023

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Upper Secondary Attainment, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Adults 25+ who completed upper secondary or higher (%)	Female	Male
1	BelarusBLREastern Europe	97.89	98.180	97.55
2	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	92.77	93.423	91.89
3	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	92.70	92.477	92.98
4	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	92.57	91.803	93.50
5	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	92.47	92.816	92.06
6	AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	91.81	91.050	92.63
7	United StatesUSANorthern America	91.46	91.899	91.00
8	CzechiaCZEEastern Europe	91.39	88.531	94.41
9	BahamasBHSCaribbean	90.90	94.027	88.03
10	SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe	90.08	86.982	93.42
11	CanadaCANNorthern America	89.57	90.051	89.07
12	LatviaLVANorthern Europe	89.24	90.437	87.75
13	EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	86.62	89.241	83.57
14	IsraelISRWestern Asia	85.23	85.370	85.08
15	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	84.74	85.372	84.12
16	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	84.28	81.641	86.98
17	HungaryHUNEastern Europe	83.88	81.248	86.81
18	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	83.00	85.068	80.81
19	Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	82.69	84.884	80.13
20	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	82.56	79.060	86.49
21	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	82.34	78.627	86.04
22	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	82.07	83.570	80.53
23	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	81.91	82.917	80.92
24	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	81.87	79.873	83.95
25	CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	81.35	77.181	85.91

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 65.76. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestBelarus98.180

  LowestBurkina Faso3.310

  Middle country: 66.360

• Male

  HighestBelarus97.55

  LowestBurkina Faso7.57

  Middle country: 63.10

• +15 / −35countries joined / left
• 80values changed, of 80 in both
• 57 · 23rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Aruba+ Angola+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Azerbaijan+ DR Congo+ Gambia+ Grenada+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Namibia+ Nauru+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Vanuatu+ Yemen− Afghanistan− Andorra− Argentina− Benin− Belize− Bhutan− Comoros− Ethiopia− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kenya− North Macedonia− Mali− Mozambique− Mauritius− Malaysia− Niger− Oman− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Palestine− Saudi Arabia− Sudan− Singapore− San Marino− Somalia− Suriname− Eswatini− Togo− Turkmenistan− Timor-Leste− Trinidad and Tobago− Tanzania− Uzbekistan− Samoa

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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