Data for 1997

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1997

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1997
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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1997 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 97.87; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.77. The middle country reads 34.47. Against 1996, 158 values changed (129 up, 29 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 1997

HighestSouth Korea

97.87

LowestSouth Sudan

0.77

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

160countries
3measures per country
1997the year it describes
157distinct 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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	97.87	98.098	97.6676
2	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	94.18	94.506	93.8655
3	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	93.07	93.525	92.5754
4	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	92.80	94.148	91.4175
5	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	92.78	92.479	93.0691
6	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	90.76	93.906	87.5761
7	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	90.42	92.364	88.5435
8	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	89.52	90.720	88.2695
9	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	87.96	89.102	86.8616
10	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	87.82	92.395	83.2948
11	United States`USA`Northern America	87.73	88.928	86.6175
12	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	87.20	88.009	86.4091
13	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	87.08	89.963	84.3227
14	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	86.38	87.692	85.0925
15	Canada`CAN`Northern America	86.30	88.797	83.9075
16	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	85.66	85.115	86.2054
17	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	85.31	87.462	83.1718
18	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	85.11	82.707	87.4674
19	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	84.75	87.368	82.1679
20	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	84.00	86.579	81.5088
21	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	83.96	86.289	81.7489
22	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	83.55	85.249	81.8893
23	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	82.96	87.522	78.5416
24	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	82.30	85.287	79.2272
25	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	82.22	84.401	80.1207
26	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	82.10	84.225	80.1654
27	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	81.97	84.204	79.5937
28	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	81.40	82.016	80.8062
29	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	81.39	80.818	81.9481
30	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	81.20	81.430	80.9798
31	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	79.89	82.697	77.1572
32	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	79.66	82.745	76.6750
33	France`FRA`Western Europe	78.64	79.888	77.4184
34	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	78.28	80.138	76.4680
35	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	77.85	80.954	74.8240
36	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	77.75	76.678	78.7882
37	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	77.51	84.477	70.7967
38	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	77.33	81.047	73.8466
39	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	73.95	73.350	74.5396
40	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	73.65	75.850	71.5204
41	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	73.50	64.115	78.3451
42	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	72.00	76.242	67.9321
43	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	69.96	73.129	66.8785
44	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	67.93	71.595	64.3345
45	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	66.88	68.844	64.9842
46	Chile`CHL`South America	65.77	67.443	64.1431
47	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	65.75	64.877	66.6072
48	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	64.99	65.441	64.5211
49	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	64.47	69.444	59.7638
50	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	63.19	67.342	59.1816
51	Peru`PER`South America	59.87	57.564	62.1340
52	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	59.12	64.586	53.9157
53	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	58.63	63.029	54.1386
54	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	57.52	63.539	51.7992
55	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	56.19	50.840	61.1902
56	Argentina`ARG`South America	56.15	60.756	51.6862
57	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	54.15	49.654	58.4439
58	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	53.70	51.494	56.1536
59	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	51.83	44.478	59.7076
60	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	49.72	47.893	51.5832
61	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	48.83	54.459	43.4089
62	Colombia`COL`South America	48.15	50.598	45.7480
63	Panama`PAN`Central America	45.81	50.274	41.4743
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	45.20	46.111	44.2807
65	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	45.10	49.145	41.4853
66	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	45.04	46.328	43.8480
67	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	44.64	44.843	44.4232
68	Bolivia`BOL`South America	44.39	41.136	47.5562
69	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	42.57	49.239	36.0585
70	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	42.42	42.406	42.4360
71	Paraguay`PRY`South America	41.27	41.793	40.7633
72	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	40.74	34.704	46.6937
73	Ecuador`ECU`South America	39.87	40.496	39.2560
74	Brazil`BRA`South America	39.17	43.459	34.9190
75	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	39.04	36.580	41.3503
76	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	37.25	36.715	37.7148
77	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	35.89	32.880	38.8404
78	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	35.23	35.857	34.6075
79	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	34.80	32.685	36.8454
80	Guyana`GUY`South America	34.61	36.709	32.4492
81	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	34.33	35.104	33.5637
82	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	33.83	26.905	40.5354
83	Mexico`MEX`Central America	33.19	33.378	32.9880
84	Uruguay`URY`South America	31.83	37.462	26.3120
85	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	31.12	36.249	26.0989
86	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	31.03	37.714	24.2037
87	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	30.19	23.917	35.6068
88	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	29.97	27.974	32.0744
89	Venezuela`VEN`South America	29.64	34.673	24.7229
90	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	29.04	28.780	29.3000
91	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	26.44	26.425	26.4548
92	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	25.69	24.433	27.0030
93	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	24.33	25.472	23.1618
94	India`IND`Southern Asia	23.69	16.713	30.1234
95	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	23.51	20.651	26.3607
96	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	22.99	21.247	24.6974
97	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	22.22	24.419	19.9989
98	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	21.72	20.108	23.2480
99	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	20.77	22.200	19.3801
100	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	19.93	18.400	21.4097
101	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	19.64	7.656	31.2057
102	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	18.23	10.669	25.5486
103	Suriname`SUR`South America	16.97	19.792	14.3123
104	Honduras`HND`Central America	16.82	19.144	14.5241
105	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	16.53	15.892	17.1918
106	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	16.26	14.999	17.5395
107	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	15.38	14.434	16.3041
108	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	15.14	12.907	17.4069
109	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	15.13	13.556	16.6859
110	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	14.81	9.091	20.4512
111	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	14.08	9.228	18.9382
112	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	13.78	9.584	18.1544
113	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	13.49	9.183	17.6432
114	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	13.25	9.446	17.0263
115	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	13.24	7.297	19.3274
116	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	12.38	12.338	12.4185
117	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	12.24	8.724	15.7536
118	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	11.95	13.152	10.6819
119	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	11.46	8.442	14.3125
120	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	11.41	4.990	17.8300
121	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	11.14	6.371	16.0309
122	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	10.47	6.502	14.5019
123	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	10.20	6.906	13.3663
124	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	9.92	11.314	8.5739
125	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	9.50	5.851	13.7410
126	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	9.45	7.597	12.0974
127	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	9.25	4.206	14.3157
128	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	8.57	6.187	10.9469
129	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	8.39	5.917	10.9670
130	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	8.07	5.707	10.4674
131	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	6.76	4.510	8.9001
132	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	6.75	4.889	8.5994
=133	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	6.47	3.648	9.3482
=133	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	6.47	2.675	10.2348
135	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	6.33	1.526	11.0862
136	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	6.28	3.565	9.2647
137	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	6.16	4.845	7.2553
138	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	6.07	5.567	6.5673
139	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	6.02	2.664	9.3640
140	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	5.89	3.566	8.2463
141	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	5.71	5.253	6.1734
142	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	5.40	1.896	8.7858
143	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	5.35	3.336	7.3460
=144	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	5.19	3.129	7.3492
=144	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	5.19	4.958	5.4283
146	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	4.24	2.089	6.4190
=147	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	4.16	2.250	5.9999
=147	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	4.16	2.284	6.0242
149	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	4.01	2.117	5.9075
150	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	3.89	2.049	5.7285
151	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	3.75	3.085	4.5249
152	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	3.65	1.644	5.5740
153	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	3.63	1.352	5.9318
154	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	3.14	1.952	4.3419
155	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	3.00	2.165	3.7947
156	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	2.54	3.153	1.9628
157	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2.46	1.558	3.3777
158	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.22	1.101	3.2908
159	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2.14	1.495	2.7852
160	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	0.77	0.548	0.9981

02In 1997

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea97.87
2Slovakia94.18
3Georgia93.07
4Turkmenistan92.80
5Czechia92.78

Lowest

160South Sudan0.77
159Burundi2.14
158Niger2.22
157Mozambique2.46
156Mauritius2.54

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 34.47. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea98.098
LowestSouth Sudan0.548
Middle country: 35.481
Male
HighestSouth Korea97.6676
LowestSouth Sudan0.9981
Middle country: 34.7632

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
158values changed, of 160 in both
129 · 29rose · fell
2unchanged

Rose most

Azerbaijan49.73 → 53.70+3.97
Thailand32.10 → 35.23+3.13
Türkiye31.37 → 33.83+2.46
Saint Lucia46.40 → 48.83+2.43
Colombia46.06 → 48.15+2.09

Fell most

Latvia79.61 → 77.51−2.10
Romania75.83 → 73.95−1.88
Mongolia32.72 → 31.03−1.69
Lithuania86.81 → 85.31−1.50
Albania45.98 → 44.64−1.34

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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What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

157 distinct values among 160
Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 6.47. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 160 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1997). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/1997

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