Completion rate, lower secondary education, female (%) by country

Countries reporting

Highest

99.0%

United States

Lowest

13.4%

Benin

Median

69.2%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

391

What the numbers show

Completion rate, lower secondary education, female (%) is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 99.0% in United States; the lowest is 13.4% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 69.2%, and the mean is 62.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 374.0%), and the largest decrease in Zimbabwe (down 23.6%).

Completion rate, lower secondary education, female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United States	99.0%	2017	up 0.3%	flat
2	Chile	97.0%	2017	up 1.4%	flat
3	Mongolia	96.4%	2018	up 11.5%	rising
4	Ecuador	91.8%	2018	up 17.5%	rising
5	Peru	91.7%	2018	up 13.5%	rising
6	Dominican Republic	91.5%	2018	up 9.1%	rising
7	Bolivia	91.4%	2018	up 9.9%	rising
8	Mexico	89.7%	2018	up 10.5%	rising
9	Brazil	89.3%	2018	up 3.8%	rising
10	Indonesia	88.8%	2017	up 27.6%	rising
11	Panama	88.1%	2018	up 16.8%	rising
12	Philippines	87.7%	2018	up 14.2%	rising
13	Vietnam	86.2%	2014	up 37.0%	rising
14	Venezuela	85.2%	2014	up 18.8%	rising
15	Paraguay	82.7%	2018	up 16.7%	rising
16	Colombia	80.0%	2018	up 9.1%	rising
17	Uruguay	78.8%	2018	up 9.9%	rising
18	Costa Rica	75.4%	2018	up 24.1%	rising
19	El Salvador	75.1%	2018	up 27.5%	rising
20	Kenya	74.9%	2014	up 84.5%	rising
21	Bangladesh	70.5%	2019	up 57.2%	rising
22	Nepal	68.0%	2016	up 83.8%	rising
23	Nigeria	59.1%	2018	up 34.7%	rising
24	Honduras	56.0%	2018	up 14.7%	rising
25	Zimbabwe	54.4%	2019	down 23.6%	falling
26	Ghana	50.2%	2018	up 8.8%	flat
27	Zambia	48.4%	2018	up 32.4%	rising
28	Gambia	47.8%	2018	up 47.1%	rising
29	Guatemala	45.0%	2015	up 58.2%	rising
30	Sierra Leone	42.0%	2017	up 173.0%	volatile
31	Cameroon	41.0%	2014	up 105.1%	rising
32	Cambodia	39.6%	2014	up 71.1%	rising
33	Togo	39.3%	2017	up 86.3%	volatile
34	Haiti	37.6%	2017	up 45.7%	rising
35	Rwanda	30.2%	2015	up 374.0%	volatile
36	Senegal	24.7%	2017	up 226.3%	rising
37	Uganda	24.5%	2016	up 70.3%	rising
38	Mali	23.3%	2018	up 133.1%	rising
39	Ethiopia	21.0%	2016	up 166.5%	volatile
40	Malawi	20.9%	2016	down 1.5%	rising
41	Guinea	20.7%	2018	up 195.6%	rising
42	Benin	13.4%	2018	up 11.7%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, lower secondary education, female (%)
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 42 places, 391 data points, 1996–2019
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The number of persons in the relevant age group who have completed the last grade of the given level of education is expressed as a percentage of the total population (in the survey sample) of the same age group. The primary completion rate is the percentage of a cohort of children or young people aged 3-5 years above the intended age for the last grade of primary education who have completed that grade. The intended age for the last grade of primary education is the age at which pupils would enter the grade if they had started school at the official primary entrance age, had studied full-time and had progressed without repeating or skipping a grade. For example, if the official age of entry into primary education is 6 years, and if primary education has 6 grades, the intended age for the last grade of primary education is 11 years. In this case, 14-16 years (11 + 3 = 14 and 11 + 5 = 16) would be the reference age group for calculation of the primary completion rate. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/