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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020

Figures for 2020, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.04; South Sudan is lowest, at 1.82. The middle country reads 62.21. Against 2019, 160 values changed (157 up, 3 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2020

HighestSouth Korea

99.04

LowestSouth Sudan

1.82

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia99.0498.764199.294
2UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia97.7197.566897.847
3KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia97.1597.119497.179
4CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe97.0897.302196.872
5UkraineUKREastern Europe96.1997.426395.016
6TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia94.9096.232993.583
7BarbadosBRBCaribbean94.8497.858391.958
8ArmeniaARMWestern Asia93.9496.404591.545
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe93.5894.776092.426
10GreeceGRCSouthern Europe93.5695.308091.968
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia93.2491.375595.066
12United StatesUSANorthern America93.1394.180592.150
13BelarusBLREastern Europe93.0894.078692.139
14SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe92.8192.947992.678
15SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe92.0693.167491.017
=16KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia91.9291.999991.840
=16MoldovaMDAEastern Europe91.9293.968189.828
18CyprusCYPWestern Asia91.9094.615789.296
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe91.8794.348589.719
20IsraelISRWestern Asia91.7795.419188.279
21GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia91.5992.713990.534
22PolandPOLEastern Europe91.0893.308688.949
23LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe90.9593.536488.556
24Saint LuciaLCACaribbean90.4997.501983.512
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe90.3191.737788.938

02In 2020

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Korea99.04
  2. 2Uzbekistan97.71
  3. 3Kazakhstan97.15
  4. 4Croatia97.08
  5. 5Ukraine96.19

Lowest

  1. 160South Sudan1.82
  2. 159Niger4.45
  3. 158Central African Republic5.09
  4. 157Chad5.86
  5. 156Mozambique6.57

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 62.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 160 in both
  • 157 · 3rose · 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

  • 158 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 91.92. 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

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) (2020). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/2020

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07Questions

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest upper secondary completion rate in Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020?

South Korea, at 99.04, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020 cover?

160.

Where can I download Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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