Data for 2011

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2011

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2011
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 98.53; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.25. The middle country reads 50.86. Against 2010, 160 values changed (151 up, 9 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2011

HighestSouth Korea

98.53

LowestSouth Sudan

1.25

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

160countries
3measures per country
2011the year it describes
157distinct values14 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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	98.53	98.204	98.8041
2	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	95.18	95.518	94.8375
3	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	94.07	94.646	93.5164
=4	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	93.87	95.304	92.4840
=4	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	93.87	95.324	92.4837
6	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	93.08	93.508	92.6681
7	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	92.78	96.241	89.2707
8	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	92.66	95.329	89.6789
9	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	92.48	93.203	91.7330
10	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	92.11	92.238	91.9783
11	United States`USA`Northern America	91.25	92.445	90.1354
12	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	91.14	93.754	88.6235
13	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	91.09	91.795	90.4146
14	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	90.68	91.466	89.9159
15	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	90.55	91.832	89.3420
16	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	90.25	92.118	88.3279
17	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	89.73	93.114	86.4743
18	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	89.72	93.034	86.6541
19	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	89.38	91.692	87.0722
20	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	89.35	92.121	87.0908
21	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	89.23	92.395	86.1953
22	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	88.40	89.701	87.1410
23	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	88.08	89.378	86.8381
24	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	87.71	89.361	86.1009
25	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	87.63	89.886	85.4757
26	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	86.64	88.472	84.8917
27	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	85.71	88.554	82.9636
28	Canada`CAN`Northern America	85.47	88.397	82.6474
29	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	85.22	82.410	88.1297
30	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	84.96	87.951	82.1015
31	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	84.62	85.412	83.8524
32	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	83.74	87.472	80.0918
33	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	83.52	84.495	82.5946
34	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	83.35	82.996	83.6855
35	France`FRA`Western Europe	82.30	84.214	80.4335
36	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	81.88	86.533	77.5328
37	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	81.60	86.991	76.4612
38	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	80.83	79.511	82.0813
39	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	80.52	84.514	76.6142
40	Chile`CHL`South America	79.74	82.560	77.0304
41	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	79.32	85.262	73.2923
42	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	79.07	80.916	77.2463
43	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	78.87	86.923	71.1828
44	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	77.73	79.316	76.1955
45	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	77.24	80.938	73.6679
46	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	77.17	79.987	74.4566
47	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	77.02	77.394	76.6636
48	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	76.84	76.304	76.9742
49	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	76.81	79.906	73.8663
50	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	76.53	79.909	73.2589
51	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	76.14	76.611	75.6908
52	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	75.84	80.470	71.3199
53	Peru`PER`South America	74.00	73.053	74.9627
54	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	73.92	79.186	68.8359
55	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	71.81	71.280	72.3301
56	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	69.68	75.829	63.5186
57	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	67.84	73.519	62.4193
58	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	66.41	73.655	59.5853
59	Colombia`COL`South America	66.10	69.729	62.5590
60	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	64.45	70.735	58.4348
61	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	63.91	69.055	59.0045
62	Argentina`ARG`South America	63.82	69.285	58.5850
63	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	63.15	61.518	64.6976
64	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	63.04	52.524	74.3540
65	Bolivia`BOL`South America	62.96	61.981	63.9112
66	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	61.83	68.624	55.1837
67	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	60.59	65.763	55.6231
68	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	60.34	69.007	51.8373
69	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	59.45	56.696	62.0864
70	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	59.25	67.588	50.9584
71	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	58.66	61.820	55.5997
72	Paraguay`PRY`South America	58.31	61.230	55.4905
73	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	58.30	62.627	54.2474
74	Brazil`BRA`South America	56.64	62.356	51.0356
75	Ecuador`ECU`South America	56.60	57.676	55.5562
=76	Panama`PAN`Central America	56.04	61.338	50.9179
=76	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	56.04	62.426	49.8264
78	Guyana`GUY`South America	55.40	61.157	49.5670
79	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	51.92	53.312	50.6615
80	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	51.15	45.156	56.9662
81	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	50.56	57.866	43.4355
=82	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	50.38	46.654	53.6138
=82	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	50.38	56.939	44.1190
84	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	50.25	49.840	50.6401
85	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	49.81	48.419	51.1793
86	Mexico`MEX`Central America	48.40	49.843	46.9431
87	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	48.35	53.536	43.3663
88	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	47.05	49.902	44.2820
89	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	46.84	49.863	43.7829
90	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	44.53	49.634	39.8638
91	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	42.42	47.180	37.6600
92	India`IND`Southern Asia	41.13	35.972	45.8718
93	Venezuela`VEN`South America	37.78	45.057	30.7669
94	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	36.68	38.511	34.8007
95	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	36.56	38.122	35.0322
96	Uruguay`URY`South America	36.47	42.433	30.7634
97	Honduras`HND`Central America	35.88	40.332	31.5821
98	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	35.69	37.342	34.0818
99	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	34.37	35.906	32.7961
100	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	32.32	31.015	33.6346
101	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	32.08	36.165	27.9751
102	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	31.68	39.357	24.5368
103	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	31.47	33.857	29.1670
104	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	28.98	28.586	29.3662
105	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	28.81	30.602	26.9524
106	Suriname`SUR`South America	27.69	33.445	22.2450
107	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	27.49	19.769	34.8992
108	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	26.81	24.266	29.2955
109	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	25.93	22.232	29.6318
110	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	25.50	25.031	25.9811
111	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	22.93	22.676	23.1764
112	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	22.10	19.080	25.1396
113	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	22.01	18.185	25.7951
114	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	21.96	20.679	23.1887
115	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	21.64	22.367	21.1671
116	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	21.06	19.686	22.4158
117	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	20.53	21.370	19.6597
118	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	19.64	22.041	17.1805
119	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	18.70	15.229	22.1790
120	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	18.66	17.810	19.4600
121	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	18.58	14.313	22.8926
122	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	17.19	18.911	15.5208
123	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	17.00	19.542	14.5518
124	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	16.18	13.603	18.7530
125	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	15.96	16.751	15.2010
126	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	15.89	14.440	17.3201
127	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	15.37	13.786	16.9763
128	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	14.99	13.287	16.6570
129	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	14.97	8.950	21.0403
130	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	14.73	13.158	16.2979
131	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	14.54	10.741	18.3306
132	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	12.80	10.467	15.4069
133	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	11.37	10.211	12.6610
134	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	11.33	10.108	12.5477
135	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	11.32	13.155	9.4248
136	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	11.06	7.650	14.4501
137	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	10.99	5.729	16.1793
138	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	10.91	8.855	12.9752
139	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	10.62	7.730	13.5900
140	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	10.35	8.485	12.1053
141	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	10.27	9.788	10.7380
142	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	10.17	7.069	13.2092
143	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	9.56	8.990	10.1199
144	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	9.45	9.068	9.8483
145	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	9.41	5.549	13.1594
146	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	9.28	7.769	11.0188
147	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	9.02	6.272	11.9817
148	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	8.57	7.474	9.7236
149	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	7.88	5.451	10.3009
150	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	7.13	5.482	8.8220
151	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	6.98	1.781	12.0413
152	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	6.85	3.528	9.6884
153	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	6.45	4.944	7.9940
154	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	5.68	2.371	8.9607
155	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	5.35	3.346	7.3256
156	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	5.28	4.415	6.1546
157	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	4.48	3.408	5.6382
158	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	4.43	3.168	5.7285
159	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.44	1.295	3.5349
160	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	1.25	0.745	1.7652

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea98.53
2Kazakhstan95.18
3Croatia94.07
4Turkmenistanshared93.87
4Ukraineshared93.87

Lowest

160South Sudan1.25
159Niger2.44
158Mozambique4.43
157Central African Republic4.48
156Burundi5.28

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 50.86. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea98.204
LowestSouth Sudan0.745
Middle country: 53.424
Male
HighestSouth Korea98.8041
LowestSouth Sudan1.7652
Middle country: 50.6508

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
160values changed, of 160 in both
151 · 9rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

China47.55 → 51.92+4.37
Mauritius13.95 → 17.19+3.24
Albania59.98 → 63.15+3.17
Mongolia57.76 → 60.34+2.58
Botswana44.33 → 46.84+2.51

Fell most

Zimbabwe9.73 → 9.28−0.45
Poland91.50 → 91.14−0.36
Norway76.84 → 76.53−0.31
Iceland64.21 → 63.91−0.30
Czechia91.32 → 91.09−0.23

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 14 decimals. 2 countries share 93.87. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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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) (2011). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/2011

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