Data for 2013

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2013

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2013
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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Figures for 2013, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2013 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 98.64; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.43. The middle country reads 54.70. Against 2012, 160 values changed (149 up, 11 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2013

HighestSouth Korea

98.64

LowestSouth Sudan

1.43

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

160countries
3measures per country
2013the year it describes
159distinct 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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	98.64	98.318	98.9178
2	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	95.74	95.968	95.5083
3	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	95.02	95.430	94.6296
4	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	94.36	95.825	92.9746
5	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	94.12	95.553	92.7326
6	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	93.28	96.613	89.8726
7	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	93.13	95.628	90.4176
8	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	93.00	93.347	92.6669
9	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	92.59	93.169	91.9993
10	United States`USA`Northern America	91.85	92.937	90.8375
11	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	91.70	91.792	91.6021
12	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	91.30	92.158	90.4675
13	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	90.97	92.258	89.7479
14	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	90.87	93.504	88.3442
15	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	90.85	92.804	88.9340
16	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	90.77	92.629	88.8388
17	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	90.69	91.320	90.0903
18	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	90.50	93.371	88.0506
19	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	90.19	92.953	87.5730
20	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	90.05	93.586	86.6563
21	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	89.92	92.765	87.2350
22	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	89.29	91.311	87.3609
23	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	89.25	90.433	88.1132
24	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	88.17	89.404	86.9942
25	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	88.07	89.782	86.4119
26	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	87.50	84.952	90.1415
27	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	87.10	88.486	85.7765
28	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	86.63	89.462	83.8924
29	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	86.33	85.001	87.5908
30	Canada`CAN`Northern America	85.90	88.855	83.1145
=31	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	85.14	87.909	82.4893
=31	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	85.14	86.346	83.9856
33	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	83.88	83.695	84.0551
34	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	83.86	84.656	83.1061
35	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	83.67	88.109	79.3390
36	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	83.14	88.260	78.3101
37	France`FRA`Western Europe	83.12	85.064	81.2343
38	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	82.72	86.926	78.7861
39	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	82.10	90.196	74.5264
40	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	81.74	83.644	79.8742
41	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	81.58	85.633	77.6332
42	Chile`CHL`South America	80.66	83.463	77.9633
43	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	80.32	86.300	74.1898
44	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	79.09	82.589	75.7387
45	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	78.48	76.991	78.8214
46	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	78.25	79.267	77.2865
47	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	78.10	79.383	76.8728
48	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	78.00	78.092	77.9123
49	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	77.45	80.532	74.5721
50	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	76.81	80.421	73.3708
51	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	76.44	79.013	74.0327
52	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	76.39	81.254	71.6644
53	Peru`PER`South America	75.73	75.256	76.2164
54	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	74.65	74.284	75.0037
55	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	73.92	79.141	68.8713
56	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	72.46	78.640	66.2404
57	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	71.24	76.750	66.0601
58	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	69.65	69.590	69.7100
59	Colombia`COL`South America	67.90	71.912	63.9818
60	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	67.61	75.280	60.4203
61	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	67.22	73.393	61.3132
62	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	66.69	56.183	77.8528
63	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	66.06	72.487	59.7571
64	Bolivia`BOL`South America	65.66	64.901	66.4006
65	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	64.61	72.373	57.0034
66	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	64.05	69.484	58.8838
67	Argentina`ARG`South America	63.64	69.737	57.7971
68	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	62.15	67.256	57.3860
69	Ecuador`ECU`South America	61.67	63.701	59.7010
70	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	61.36	65.072	57.7817
71	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	61.32	70.800	51.8399
72	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	61.31	59.782	62.7722
73	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	60.48	64.088	57.2575
74	Paraguay`PRY`South America	59.89	62.739	57.1392
75	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	59.44	64.121	55.1814
76	Brazil`BRA`South America	57.93	63.938	52.0478
77	Panama`PAN`Central America	57.70	63.162	52.4115
78	Guyana`GUY`South America	57.58	64.125	50.9047
79	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	57.24	64.263	50.3831
80	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	54.78	54.852	54.7118
81	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	54.62	52.360	56.5005
82	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	53.12	60.604	45.8341
83	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	51.96	59.454	44.8936
84	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	51.23	45.382	56.8824
85	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	50.33	54.266	46.3957
86	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	50.14	55.439	45.0491
87	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	50.09	50.144	50.0344
88	Mexico`MEX`Central America	49.72	51.345	48.0853
89	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	47.87	51.066	44.7459
90	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	47.04	53.158	41.5780
91	India`IND`Southern Asia	45.15	40.548	49.3681
92	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	44.66	50.310	39.0100
93	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	39.20	41.250	37.1897
94	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	38.78	41.972	35.6216
95	Venezuela`VEN`South America	38.63	46.160	31.4002
96	Honduras`HND`Central America	38.62	43.298	34.1084
97	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	38.36	40.174	36.5036
98	Uruguay`URY`South America	37.61	43.336	32.1256
99	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	35.02	33.671	36.3907
100	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	34.70	43.977	26.0969
101	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	34.69	36.585	32.8154
102	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	33.13	37.611	28.6813
103	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	32.23	35.070	29.5405
104	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	31.22	31.109	31.3289
105	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	30.89	33.335	28.3546
106	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	28.71	21.901	35.2412
107	Suriname`SUR`South America	28.63	35.391	22.2906
108	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	27.87	25.676	30.0262
109	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	26.74	26.307	27.1767
110	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	26.46	23.950	28.9697
111	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	25.03	24.994	25.0644
112	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	25.01	25.045	24.9753
113	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	24.06	26.324	22.6439
114	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	24.04	21.400	26.7096
115	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	23.94	25.596	22.3455
116	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	23.77	20.884	26.6245
117	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	22.64	21.710	23.5296
118	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	22.39	24.625	20.1647
119	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	21.15	24.019	18.2190
120	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	20.52	20.045	20.9653
121	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	19.36	16.085	22.6445
122	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	19.27	15.211	23.3715
123	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	19.09	17.787	20.3671
124	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	19.03	16.074	21.9744
125	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	19.02	21.740	16.3997
126	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	18.09	14.496	21.6756
127	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	16.94	16.332	17.5322
128	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	16.78	18.197	15.4273
129	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	16.54	10.477	22.6171
130	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	16.30	15.052	17.5624
131	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	15.67	14.109	17.2289
132	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	14.06	12.713	15.5128
133	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	13.09	11.084	15.2639
134	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	12.44	14.706	10.1059
135	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	12.26	8.593	15.8528
136	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	12.24	11.434	13.0436
137	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	12.18	8.818	15.5184
138	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	11.66	6.448	16.7679
139	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	11.35	9.664	13.0440
140	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	11.27	8.271	14.5805
141	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	11.19	11.352	11.0322
142	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	11.11	8.427	13.9166
143	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	10.97	8.999	12.7987
144	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	10.84	10.440	11.2596
145	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	10.43	9.870	10.9800
146	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	10.05	6.075	13.9149
147	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	8.93	7.895	10.0447
148	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	8.64	7.333	10.1530
149	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	8.57	5.878	11.2476
150	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	8.14	6.424	9.8940
151	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	7.23	1.915	12.4353
152	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	7.15	3.942	9.9723
153	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	7.03	5.528	8.5576
154	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	6.33	3.976	8.6558
155	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	6.23	5.379	7.0893
156	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	5.80	2.499	9.0592
157	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	4.76	3.481	6.0709
158	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	4.49	3.511	5.5208
159	Niger`NER`Western Africa	2.78	1.472	4.0321
160	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	1.43	0.868	1.9977

02In 2013

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea98.64
2Kazakhstan95.74
3Croatia95.02
4Ukraine94.36
5Turkmenistan94.12

Lowest

160South Sudan1.43
159Niger2.78
158Central African Republic4.49
157Mozambique4.76
156Chad5.80

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 54.70. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSouth Korea98.318
LowestSouth Sudan0.868
Middle country: 57.818
Male
HighestSouth Korea98.9178
LowestSouth Sudan1.9977
Middle country: 51.3723

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −0countries joined / left
160values changed, of 160 in both
149 · 11rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

China56.39 → 60.48+4.09
Mauritius20.59 → 23.94+3.35
Albania66.46 → 69.65+3.19
Uzbekistan83.45 → 86.33+2.88
Ecuador58.85 → 61.67+2.82

Fell most

Cuba77.07 → 76.44−0.63
Zimbabwe8.91 → 8.64−0.27
Kyrgyzstan91.93 → 91.70−0.23
Argentina63.85 → 63.64−0.21
Czechia90.89 → 90.69−0.20

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

159 distinct values among 160
Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 85.14. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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Every one of the 160 countries has every column.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2013). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/2013

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