Data for 2023

Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2023

Name: Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2023
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2023 covers 160 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.19; South Sudan is lowest, at 2.01. The middle country reads 64.22. Against 2022, 160 values changed (160 up, 0 down), the same countries are covered.

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Upper Secondary Completion Rate · Data for 2023

HighestSouth Korea

99.19

LowestSouth Sudan

2.01

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

160countries
3measures per country
2023the year it describes
159distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 12, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.19	98.923	99.433
2	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	98.59	98.682	98.502
3	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	97.80	98.082	97.532
4	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	97.53	97.464	97.594
5	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	96.84	97.969	95.769
6	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	95.39	98.235	92.595
7	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	95.18	96.505	93.905
8	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	94.86	93.394	96.204
9	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	94.59	96.286	93.056
10	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	94.51	95.548	93.498
11	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	94.29	96.628	91.948
12	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	94.01	94.822	93.242
13	United States`USA`Northern America	93.30	94.337	92.327
14	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	93.14	93.309	92.979
15	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	92.95	99.345	86.885
16	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	92.81	92.681	92.941
17	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	92.73	95.494	90.084
18	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	92.71	95.203	90.403
19	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	92.65	93.893	91.493
20	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	92.57	96.235	89.055
21	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	92.47	94.499	90.429
22	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	92.17	93.339	91.069
23	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	91.82	94.294	89.444
24	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	91.53	93.752	89.402
25	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	91.22	93.456	89.056
26	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	91.03	92.631	89.491
27	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	90.78	85.387	93.547
28	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	90.13	91.040	89.260
29	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	89.91	91.652	88.262
30	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	89.48	90.802	88.242
31	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	88.94	90.610	87.450
32	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	88.65	91.626	85.836
33	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	88.04	90.958	85.178
34	Canada`CAN`Northern America	87.95	91.014	85.014
35	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	87.83	92.022	83.902
36	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	87.35	89.898	84.978
37	France`FRA`Western Europe	86.94	89.607	84.417
38	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	86.83	96.559	78.508
39	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	86.82	87.282	86.382
40	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	86.81	91.505	82.315
41	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	86.78	89.394	84.274
42	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	86.43	89.007	84.047
43	Chile`CHL`South America	85.89	88.274	83.574
44	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	85.85	87.276	84.506
45	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	85.73	88.648	82.968
46	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	85.71	90.005	81.605
47	Peru`PER`South America	85.59	85.882	85.302
48	Tonga`TON`Polynesia	85.39	91.722	78.312
49	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	85.36	89.749	81.209
50	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	84.73	86.025	83.455
51	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	83.87	89.586	78.396
52	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	83.61	77.169	90.499
53	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	82.11	88.112	76.772
54	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	81.66	86.614	76.664
55	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	81.47	80.811	82.101
56	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	81.13	85.833	76.653
57	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	80.74	84.611	77.071
58	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	80.63	83.100	78.360
59	Bolivia`BOL`South America	80.36	82.177	78.587
60	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	80.21	84.060	76.580
61	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	79.39	84.185	74.765
62	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	76.23	81.890	70.750
63	Ecuador`ECU`South America	76.14	80.036	72.376
64	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	76.04	78.588	73.598
65	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	73.92	87.469	59.999
66	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	73.82	80.196	67.846
67	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	73.72	77.661	70.081
68	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	73.47	80.628	66.638
69	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	72.97	76.632	69.462
70	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	72.61	80.602	64.752
71	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	70.81	74.177	67.607
72	Brazil`BRA`South America	70.67	75.113	66.353
73	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	70.25	78.105	62.785
74	Guyana`GUY`South America	68.70	77.643	60.063
75	Argentina`ARG`South America	67.60	74.691	60.821
76	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	67.29	72.700	61.980
77	Paraguay`PRY`South America	66.98	71.033	63.073
78	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	65.94	74.480	57.550
79	Colombia`COL`South America	65.85	68.381	63.391
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	65.22	71.503	59.463
81	Panama`PAN`Central America	63.21	69.514	57.144
82	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	63.06	70.279	55.859
83	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	62.83	71.535	54.435
84	India`IND`Southern Asia	62.61	61.011	64.061
85	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	60.81	70.473	52.153
86	Mexico`MEX`Central America	60.12	62.612	57.672
87	Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	59.76	70.425	50.005
88	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	56.85	62.190	51.730
89	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	56.11	50.937	61.097
90	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	55.89	61.143	50.563
91	Tuvalu`TUV`Polynesia	55.43	65.050	45.810
92	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	54.69	59.311	50.151
93	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	53.92	46.786	60.756
94	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	52.80	58.131	47.611
95	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	52.22	57.009	47.199
96	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	51.29	54.399	48.259
97	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	49.96	55.395	44.565
98	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	47.65	62.779	33.079
99	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	47.45	50.841	43.951
100	Honduras`HND`Central America	46.49	51.848	41.358
101	Venezuela`VEN`South America	43.56	53.222	34.552
102	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	42.55	40.233	44.833
103	Uruguay`URY`South America	41.82	47.910	35.980
104	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	40.84	41.106	40.566
105	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	39.23	39.674	38.794
106	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	38.41	44.488	32.488
107	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	37.97	34.579	41.229
108	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	37.95	47.436	31.516
109	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	36.85	37.245	36.475
110	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	36.56	41.185	31.985
111	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	36.30	34.275	38.395
112	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	36.04	41.056	31.146
113	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	36.02	35.397	36.737
114	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	35.17	35.681	34.671
115	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	35.09	38.891	31.471
116	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	33.81	41.749	26.099
117	Suriname`SUR`South America	33.27	41.826	24.876
118	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	33.17	36.494	29.874
119	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	32.33	33.778	30.898
120	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	32.10	32.020	32.180
121	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	30.88	27.834	33.904
=122	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	27.14	32.310	21.940
=122	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	27.14	26.847	27.437
124	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	26.24	26.569	25.929
125	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	25.51	24.723	26.303
126	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	23.76	25.112	22.412
127	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	23.42	22.159	24.689
128	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	23.39	17.869	28.799
129	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	23.30	27.572	19.202
130	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	22.13	26.680	17.600
131	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	21.84	19.930	23.850
132	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	21.77	21.945	21.595
133	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	20.88	22.000	19.710
134	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	20.58	14.425	26.585
135	Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	19.88	25.444	14.434
136	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	17.49	11.629	23.179
137	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	17.16	17.981	16.331
138	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	17.11	17.881	16.341
139	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	17.09	17.234	16.944
140	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	15.93	11.891	19.591
141	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	14.98	13.978	15.968
142	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	14.80	17.066	12.566
143	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	14.72	10.139	19.219
144	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	14.06	14.191	13.931
145	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	13.82	13.200	14.430
146	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	13.76	12.869	14.569
147	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	12.95	9.873	15.983
148	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	12.06	9.446	14.646
149	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	11.02	10.268	11.788
150	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	10.91	7.817	13.917
151	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	9.54	9.789	9.289
152	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	8.66	6.210	10.880
153	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	8.53	2.916	14.046
154	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	8.36	7.218	9.498
155	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	8.03	6.159	9.929
156	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	7.97	6.194	9.834
157	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	6.26	3.288	9.188
158	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	5.36	4.910	5.860
159	Niger`NER`Western Africa	4.73	3.069	6.329
160	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	2.01	1.315	2.695

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea99.19
2Uzbekistan98.59
3Croatia97.80
4Kazakhstan97.53
5Ukraine96.84

Lowest

160South Sudan2.01
159Niger4.73
158Central African Republic5.36
157Chad6.26
156Zimbabwe7.97

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 64.22. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestSaint Lucia99.345
LowestSouth Sudan1.315
Middle country: 70.753
Male
HighestSouth Korea99.433
LowestSouth Sudan2.695
Middle country: 60.031

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Nepal32.26 → 36.30+4.04
Ghana39.55 → 42.55+3.00
Mauritius48.93 → 51.29+2.36
China84.96 → 86.83+1.87
Jordan65.45 → 67.29+1.84

Fell most

None.

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.

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159 distinct values among 160
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 27.14. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2023). Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/upper-secondary-completion/2023

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