Completion rate, lower secondary education, urban, both sexes (%) by country

Countries reporting

Highest

97.5%

Mongolia

Lowest

28.1%

Benin

Median

75.3%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

392

What the numbers show

Completion rate, lower secondary education, urban, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 97.5% in Mongolia; the lowest is 28.1% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 75.3%, and the mean is 72.1%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 5 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 136.7%), and the largest decrease in Benin (down 16.6%).

Completion rate, lower secondary education, urban, both sexes: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Mongolia	97.5%	2018	up 6.0%	rising
2	Chile	96.0%	2017	up 1.7%	flat
3	Bolivia	95.4%	2018	up 4.7%	rising
4	Ecuador	94.1%	2018	up 10.1%	rising
5	Peru	93.6%	2018	up 6.6%	rising
6	Mexico	90.8%	2018	up 7.8%	rising
7	Indonesia	90.7%	2017	up 11.4%	rising
8	Panama	89.6%	2018	up 10.0%	rising
9	Vietnam	88.8%	2014	up 16.9%	rising
10	Brazil	87.6%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
11	Dominican Republic	87.4%	2018	up 7.2%	rising
12	Paraguay	84.8%	2018	up 6.6%	rising
13	Philippines	84.5%	2018	up 10.0%	rising
14	El Salvador	82.9%	2018	up 18.3%	rising
15	Kenya	82.7%	2014	up 33.1%	rising
16	Argentina	82.7%	2018	up 8.5%	rising
17	Colombia	81.7%	2018	up 3.6%	rising
18	Nigeria	81.0%	2018	up 13.7%	rising
19	Zimbabwe	78.2%	2019	down 12.7%	flat
20	Costa Rica	75.4%	2018	up 13.7%	rising
21	Nepal	75.3%	2016	up 18.0%	rising
22	Uruguay	73.4%	2018	up 10.6%	rising
23	Zambia	72.1%	2018	up 15.4%	rising
24	Honduras	71.3%	2018	up 17.1%	rising
25	Bangladesh	67.4%	2019	up 38.2%	rising
26	Cambodia	65.9%	2014	up 53.3%	rising
27	Sierra Leone	64.4%	2017	up 59.3%	rising
28	Guatemala	64.3%	2015	up 33.0%	rising
29	Ghana	60.8%	2018	down 1.1%	falling
30	Togo	60.6%	2017	up 33.1%	rising
31	Cameroon	59.9%	2014	up 73.1%	rising
32	Ethiopia	58.9%	2016	up 43.3%	rising
33	Mali	54.6%	2018	up 52.6%	rising
34	Gambia	53.7%	2018	down 1.8%	rising
35	Malawi	51.2%	2016	down 5.9%	rising
36	Haiti	50.3%	2017	up 17.4%	rising
37	Uganda	47.5%	2016	up 33.8%	rising
38	Guinea	47.4%	2018	up 72.0%	rising
39	Rwanda	46.1%	2015	up 136.7%	rising
40	Senegal	38.0%	2017	up 109.7%	rising
41	Benin	28.1%	2018	down 16.6%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, lower secondary education, urban, both sexes (%)
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 41 places, 392 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/