Data for 1995

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1995

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1995
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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1995 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 97.54; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.74. The middle country reads 32.86. Against 1994, 157 values changed (121 up, 36 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1995

HighestSouth Korea

97.54

LowestSouth Sudan

0.74

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

160countries
3measures per country
1995the year it describes
160distinct values15 decimals, as published
Sep 12, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1995, 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, 1995: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	97.54	97.843	97.273
2	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	94.20	94.444	93.964
3	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	93.71	94.212	93.172
4	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	93.03	94.354	91.674
5	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	92.71	92.173	93.223
6	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	92.37	94.730	89.960
7	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	90.20	91.810	88.650
8	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	88.96	89.967	87.907
9	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	88.37	89.987	86.797
10	United States`USA`Northern America	87.89	88.957	86.897
11	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	87.87	88.970	86.810
12	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	86.76	87.629	85.939
13	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	86.66	91.465	81.915
14	Canada`CAN`Northern America	86.16	88.468	83.938
15	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	86.07	89.035	83.245
16	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	85.66	89.705	81.755
17	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	85.09	84.343	85.843
18	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	84.46	86.073	82.853
19	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	84.31	81.184	87.414
20	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	83.01	84.444	81.614
21	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	82.71	85.855	79.585
22	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	81.75	88.444	75.444
23	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	81.48	84.603	78.493
24	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	81.38	82.183	80.603
25	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	81.27	82.807	79.797
26	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	81.17	82.678	79.808
27	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	80.54	82.577	78.567
28	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	80.20	79.888	80.498
29	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	79.70	83.109	76.209
30	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	79.16	82.364	76.064
31	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	78.90	81.932	75.972
32	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	78.49	81.410	75.380
33	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	78.37	77.398	79.328
34	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	78.29	76.762	79.752
35	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	77.95	76.545	79.345
36	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	77.45	79.319	75.639
37	France`FRA`Western Europe	76.99	77.898	76.098
38	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	76.78	79.871	73.791
39	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	76.19	79.346	73.196
40	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	73.55	63.208	78.178
41	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	72.07	73.938	70.258
42	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	70.96	74.861	67.201
43	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	68.82	71.632	66.072
44	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	66.35	69.955	62.765
45	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	66.21	67.592	64.872
46	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	64.54	64.540	64.540
47	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	64.48	62.787	66.127
48	Chile`CHL`South America	63.28	64.552	62.042
49	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	62.44	66.853	58.263
50	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	60.68	64.789	56.709
51	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	59.39	62.904	55.794
52	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	58.58	64.253	53.183
53	Peru`PER`South America	58.54	55.715	61.315
54	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	57.06	61.830	52.510
55	Argentina`ARG`South America	54.70	59.266	50.236
56	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	53.21	47.252	58.752
57	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	50.49	45.217	55.537
58	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	49.58	42.690	56.930
59	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	47.23	47.403	47.053
60	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	46.68	43.401	50.001
61	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	45.78	44.208	47.468
62	Panama`PAN`Central America	45.34	49.613	41.183
63	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	44.90	48.090	42.140
64	Colombia`COL`South America	44.31	46.849	41.819
65	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	43.95	48.775	39.295
66	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	43.39	44.054	42.734
67	Bolivia`BOL`South America	41.35	37.867	44.747
68	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	41.27	41.237	41.297
69	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	40.94	40.372	41.532
70	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	39.14	45.317	33.077
71	Ecuador`ECU`South America	38.80	39.410	38.200
72	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	38.78	33.108	44.408
73	Paraguay`PRY`South America	38.66	39.000	38.330
74	Brazil`BRA`South America	36.74	40.776	32.736
75	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	35.87	34.642	36.922
76	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	35.21	31.233	38.923
77	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	34.92	41.579	28.169
78	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	34.88	31.432	38.272
79	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	34.01	30.145	37.755
80	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	33.09	33.829	32.359
81	Mexico`MEX`Central America	32.63	32.567	32.697
82	Guyana`GUY`South America	32.09	33.864	30.254
83	Uruguay`URY`South America	31.98	37.772	26.362
84	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	29.41	29.264	29.554
85	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	29.23	22.264	35.934
86	Venezuela`VEN`South America	28.89	33.796	24.086
87	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	28.59	33.772	23.512
88	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	27.76	25.585	30.045
89	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	27.41	20.896	33.096
90	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	27.32	26.370	28.270
91	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	25.20	24.927	25.377
92	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	24.27	22.619	25.969
93	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	24.07	24.607	23.517
94	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	23.78	20.417	27.137
95	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	23.35	21.208	25.448
96	India`IND`Southern Asia	22.53	15.167	29.347
97	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	21.45	23.646	19.246
98	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	18.88	17.147	20.527
99	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	18.42	19.246	17.616
100	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	18.12	6.214	29.654
101	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	17.83	16.077	19.537
102	Honduras`HND`Central America	16.73	18.657	14.807
103	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	16.00	8.429	23.319
104	Suriname`SUR`South America	15.85	17.991	13.821
105	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	15.61	14.331	16.881
106	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	15.56	14.725	16.415
107	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	15.41	14.482	16.322
108	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	15.39	14.016	16.796
109	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	15.20	12.501	17.951
110	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	15.16	8.487	21.727
111	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	14.00	8.813	19.213
112	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	13.47	9.039	18.099
113	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	13.07	9.128	16.878
114	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	12.59	8.511	16.721
115	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	12.42	8.538	16.318
116	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	11.83	6.358	17.528
117	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	11.18	7.773	14.413
118	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	10.91	11.876	9.906
119	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	10.77	10.140	11.350
120	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	10.54	5.711	15.551
121	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	10.53	6.366	14.786
122	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	10.50	4.020	16.990
123	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	10.16	8.282	12.852
124	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	9.07	10.246	7.936
125	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	8.80	5.411	12.141
126	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	8.61	3.591	13.661
127	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	8.59	5.911	11.261
128	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	8.56	4.734	12.944
129	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	7.31	5.048	9.758
130	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	7.25	4.800	9.740
131	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	6.88	3.691	10.261
132	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	6.71	1.666	11.726
133	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	6.62	2.496	10.726
134	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	6.61	5.886	7.326
135	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	6.50	4.481	8.501
136	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	6.32	3.913	8.583
137	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	5.98	3.729	8.269
138	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	5.90	4.589	7.029
139	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	5.72	3.256	8.246
140	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	5.67	5.101	6.261
141	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	5.55	2.408	8.658
142	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	5.33	1.715	8.935
143	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	5.02	3.038	6.988
144	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	4.75	2.610	7.010
145	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	4.62	4.265	4.995
146	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	4.06	2.012	6.142
147	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	3.89	1.820	5.950
148	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	3.83	2.004	5.654
149	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	3.80	1.968	5.568
150	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	3.74	1.799	5.719
151	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	3.57	1.323	5.713
152	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	3.49	2.633	4.513
153	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	3.27	1.107	5.457
154	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	3.07	1.819	4.339
155	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	3.01	2.060	3.880
156	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2.38	1.480	3.260
157	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	2.22	2.597	1.867
158	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.17	1.048	3.248
159	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	1.95	1.237	2.667
160	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	0.74	0.537	0.947

02In 1995

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea97.54
2Slovakia94.20
3Georgia93.71
4Turkmenistan93.03
5Czechia92.71

Lowest

160South Sudan0.74
159Burundi1.95
158Niger2.17
157Mauritius2.22
156Mozambique2.38

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 32.86. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea97.843
LowestSouth Sudan0.537
Middle country: 33.440
Male
HighestSouth Korea97.273
LowestSouth Sudan0.947
Middle country: 32.717

031994 → 1995

Since 1994

What changed between 1994 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
157values changed, of 160 in both
121 · 36rose · fell
3unchanged

Rose most

Azerbaijan42.47 → 45.78+3.31
Saint Lucia41.59 → 43.95+2.36
Thailand27.46 → 29.41+1.95
Iran33.32 → 35.21+1.89
Uzbekistan48.67 → 50.49+1.82

Fell most

Mongolia37.11 → 34.92−2.19
Latvia83.55 → 81.75−1.80
Romania79.44 → 77.95−1.49
Lithuania89.84 → 88.37−1.47
Estonia87.11 → 85.66−1.45

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) (1995). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1995 [data set], describing 1995. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/1995

0645 held

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