Data for 1986

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1986

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1986
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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1986 covers 164 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 96.20; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.58. The middle country reads 24.82. Against 1985, 163 values changed (152 up, 11 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1986

HighestSouth Korea

96.20

LowestSouth Sudan

0.58

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

164countries
3measures per country
1986the year it describes
164distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 12, 2026read from the publisher
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01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1986, 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 Completion Rate, 1986: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	96.20	96.742	95.71
2	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	94.38	94.677	94.10
3	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	93.72	93.568	93.87
4	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	93.63	95.451	91.69
5	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	93.15	94.210	92.07
6	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	91.76	92.148	91.34
7	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	91.69	90.760	92.58
8	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	91.57	93.944	89.29
9	United States`USA`Northern America	88.82	89.504	88.16
10	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	87.93	88.734	87.16
11	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	87.62	93.091	82.25
12	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	86.85	87.396	86.26
13	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	85.70	86.739	84.71
14	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	85.27	86.971	83.64
15	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	84.00	84.542	83.49
16	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	83.80	82.321	85.25
17	Canada`CAN`Northern America	83.21	85.503	81.02
18	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	82.41	87.380	77.55
19	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	81.27	82.056	80.51
20	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	81.11	76.075	86.01
21	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	80.52	81.462	79.60
22	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	79.09	75.985	82.00
23	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	78.91	76.376	81.34
24	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	77.86	75.117	80.58
25	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	77.03	79.809	74.37
26	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	75.57	80.476	70.89
27	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	75.53	76.737	74.42
28	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	75.36	77.981	72.83
29	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	75.17	75.235	75.12
30	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	74.44	73.320	75.57
31	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	74.40	76.767	71.99
32	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	72.93	75.691	70.32
33	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	72.61	79.728	65.46
34	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	71.00	72.878	69.20
35	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	70.68	74.972	66.51
36	France`FRA`Western Europe	68.41	67.883	68.93
37	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	67.93	66.628	69.21
38	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	67.79	73.655	62.13
39	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	66.08	53.881	71.36
40	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	65.49	67.148	63.85
41	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	65.39	63.460	67.29
42	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	63.29	61.459	65.07
43	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	62.63	62.559	62.70
44	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	62.25	63.443	61.09
45	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	60.60	61.956	59.24
46	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	59.56	62.086	57.15
47	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	57.98	54.796	61.12
48	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	57.56	58.324	56.78
49	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	57.22	59.920	54.42
50	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	52.44	53.788	51.15
51	Chile`CHL`South America	52.35	52.697	52.01
52	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	50.88	53.026	48.84
53	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	50.17	52.597	47.83
54	Peru`PER`South America	49.66	45.010	54.27
55	Argentina`ARG`South America	49.21	52.997	45.49
56	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	46.34	46.587	46.11
57	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	45.38	38.681	51.86
58	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	44.35	41.429	47.20
59	Panama`PAN`Central America	43.02	46.210	39.90
60	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	42.61	42.218	43.00
61	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	42.23	32.083	52.52
62	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	41.50	33.313	49.28
63	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	39.20	44.100	34.17
64	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	37.77	30.649	45.51
65	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	36.33	27.925	44.52
66	Ecuador`ECU`South America	35.90	35.613	36.18
67	Brazil`BRA`South America	34.20	36.704	31.71
68	Colombia`COL`South America	34.03	35.651	32.45
69	Paraguay`PRY`South America	33.74	33.096	34.38
70	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	32.10	32.455	31.75
71	Bolivia`BOL`South America	31.34	27.165	35.47
72	Mexico`MEX`Central America	31.02	29.106	33.02
73	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	30.36	24.204	36.62
74	Uruguay`URY`South America	30.29	34.937	25.72
75	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	29.43	25.233	33.05
76	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	28.35	25.048	31.45
77	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	28.00	26.043	29.90
78	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	27.58	30.994	24.22
79	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	26.63	20.930	32.29
80	Venezuela`VEN`South America	26.01	28.877	23.20
81	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	24.99	25.987	24.05
82	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	24.92	27.441	22.41
83	Guyana`GUY`South America	24.72	24.177	25.28
84	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	24.33	17.773	30.34
85	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	24.12	15.813	32.30
86	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	23.74	18.237	29.25
87	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	23.69	19.545	27.76
88	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	21.38	18.987	23.77
89	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	21.19	15.003	26.94
90	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	21.03	18.020	24.04
91	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	20.44	18.537	22.28
92	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	20.31	12.679	27.75
93	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	19.81	18.955	20.45
94	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	19.30	20.372	18.21
95	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	18.52	14.887	22.19
96	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	18.37	15.188	22.06
97	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	17.90	16.739	19.12
98	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	17.49	8.384	26.73
99	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	17.35	13.602	21.45
100	Honduras`HND`Central America	17.26	18.423	16.05
101	India`IND`Southern Asia	16.08	9.349	22.31
102	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	16.05	12.777	19.18
103	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	15.58	11.250	19.89
104	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	14.73	13.123	16.30
105	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	14.46	6.914	22.04
106	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	14.29	12.150	16.43
107	Suriname`SUR`South America	14.23	14.034	14.41
108	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	13.49	11.952	15.10
109	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	12.66	7.733	17.73
110	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	12.39	8.049	16.46
111	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	12.17	6.502	17.93
112	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	11.58	5.284	17.52
113	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	11.43	7.015	15.71
114	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	11.17	1.460	20.79
115	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	10.75	7.787	13.84
116	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	10.68	4.831	16.62
117	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	10.17	7.996	12.34
118	Belize`BLZ`Central America	9.83	8.544	11.11
119	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	9.27	6.579	11.97
120	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	8.99	1.728	15.84
121	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	8.86	7.458	10.25
122	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	8.61	4.022	13.69
123	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	8.56	8.914	8.18
124	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	8.42	5.822	11.01
125	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	8.01	3.018	12.94
126	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	7.88	8.256	7.52
127	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	7.82	4.389	11.25
128	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	7.43	2.625	12.24
129	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	7.40	2.816	11.73
130	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	6.79	4.183	9.46
131	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	6.77	1.283	12.19
132	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	6.73	2.536	11.31
133	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	6.63	1.740	11.45
134	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	6.52	3.555	9.06
135	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	6.35	3.628	9.18
136	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	6.28	0.287	12.33
137	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	5.70	3.635	7.54
138	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	5.63	1.265	10.13
139	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	5.16	4.027	6.27
140	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	5.04	2.174	7.95
141	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	4.97	1.125	8.95
142	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	4.63	3.313	5.99
143	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	4.46	1.042	7.78
144	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	4.44	2.728	6.46
145	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	4.16	1.619	6.76
146	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	3.67	1.211	6.36
147	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	3.66	1.216	6.26
148	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	3.55	1.736	5.51
149	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	3.46	1.327	5.79
150	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	3.29	1.618	4.95
151	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	2.91	1.744	4.16
152	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	2.84	1.298	4.40
153	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	2.82	0.719	4.93
154	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	2.71	1.956	3.48
155	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.60	1.160	3.98
156	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	2.32	0.846	3.82
157	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	2.19	1.021	3.36
158	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	2.16	0.371	3.85
159	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2.05	0.987	3.14
160	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	1.86	0.925	2.80
161	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	1.59	0.868	2.32
162	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	1.52	0.558	2.49
163	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	1.27	1.026	1.50
164	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	0.58	0.369	0.79

02In 1986

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea96.20
2Lithuania94.38
3Slovakia93.72
4Armenia93.63
5Turkmenistan93.15

Lowest

164South Sudan0.58
163Mauritius1.27
162Burundi1.52
161Burkina Faso1.59
160Rwanda1.86

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 24.82. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea96.742
LowestDjibouti0.287
Middle country: 22.554
Male
HighestSouth Korea95.71
LowestSouth Sudan0.79
Middle country: 27.35

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
163values changed, of 164 in both
152 · 11rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Trinidad and Tobago58.74 → 60.60+1.86
Saint Lucia23.34 → 24.99+1.65
Kazakhstan66.37 → 67.79+1.42
Spain51.02 → 52.44+1.42
Croatia63.98 → 65.39+1.41

Fell most

China18.58 → 16.05−2.53
Costa Rica32.85 → 32.10−0.75
Azerbaijan38.02 → 37.77−0.25
Iraq18.68 → 18.52−0.16
Benin5.13 → 5.04−0.09

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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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1986). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/1986

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