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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 98.45; South Sudan is lowest, at 0.72. The middle country reads 45.00. Against 2005, 160 values changed (146 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2006

HighestSouth Korea

98.45

LowestSouth Sudan

0.72

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia98.4598.245698.6256
2SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe93.3893.993892.7938
3TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia93.2194.647591.8175
4KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia92.9493.640492.2304
5UkraineUKREastern Europe92.7593.985191.5751
6PolandPOLEastern Europe92.6194.865190.4251
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia92.2992.710191.8501
8CzechiaCZEEastern Europe92.1092.521291.7012
9BarbadosBRBCaribbean91.4095.149587.5795
10ArmeniaARMWestern Asia91.1494.634787.2747
11CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe91.0991.764890.4448
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia90.8991.841689.9016
13MoldovaMDAEastern Europe89.6591.633587.5635
14United StatesUSANorthern America89.5390.773488.3734
15SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe89.4592.853486.2234
16BelarusBLREastern Europe89.3491.084887.6748
17IsraelISRWestern Asia88.3891.188685.6786
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe87.9191.335984.5759
19SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe87.8788.327587.4175
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe87.5889.098986.0788
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe87.2689.077785.5277
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe87.1988.648385.7483
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe86.6589.640583.7205
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia86.3789.336883.7468
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe86.2689.425083.2350

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Korea98.45
  2. 2Slovakia93.38
  3. 3Turkmenistan93.21
  4. 4Kazakhstan92.94
  5. 5Ukraine92.75

Lowest

  1. 160South Sudan0.72
  2. 159Niger2.03
  3. 158Burundi3.45
  4. 157Mozambique3.60
  5. 156Burkina Faso3.63

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 45.00. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 160 in both
  • 146 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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

Read before you use

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

How values are stored

  • 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

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2006). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/2006

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07Questions

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest upper secondary completion rate in Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006?

South Korea, at 98.45, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006 cover?

160.

Where can I download Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2006 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2025.

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