Completion rate, primary education, female (%) by country

Countries reporting

Highest

99.8%

United States

Lowest

39.1%

Guinea

Median

89.6%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

391

What the numbers show

Completion rate, primary education, female (%) is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 99.8% in United States; the lowest is 39.1% in Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 89.6%, and the mean is 80.5%.

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

Over the past decade 41 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 458.8%), and the largest decrease in Chile (down 0.1%).

Completion rate, primary education, female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United States	99.8%	2017	up 0.1%	flat
2	Mongolia	99.4%	2018	up 3.3%	rising
3	Ecuador	98.6%	2018	up 4.0%	rising
4	Uruguay	98.4%	2018	up 1.9%	flat
5	Mexico	98.3%	2018	up 3.0%	rising
6	Bolivia	97.8%	2018	up 7.3%	rising
7	Indonesia	97.6%	2017	up 3.5%	rising
8	Costa Rica	97.3%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
9	Peru	97.1%	2018	up 5.0%	rising
10	Vietnam	97.0%	2014	up 10.3%	rising
11	Chile	96.9%	2017	down 0.1%	flat
11	Dominican Republic	96.9%	2018	up 8.5%	rising
13	Panama	96.5%	2018	up 2.9%	flat
14	Brazil	96.4%	2018	up 0.4%	flat
15	Colombia	95.5%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
16	Paraguay	95.4%	2018	up 6.6%	rising
17	Venezuela	95.3%	2014	up 3.2%	rising
18	Philippines	95.2%	2018	up 6.1%	rising
19	Zimbabwe	91.6%	2019	up 1.8%	flat
20	El Salvador	91.4%	2018	up 15.2%	rising
21	Honduras	90.1%	2018	up 10.4%	rising
22	Bangladesh	89.1%	2019	up 23.5%	rising
23	Kenya	86.9%	2014	up 48.3%	rising
24	Nepal	82.4%	2016	up 40.0%	rising
25	Cambodia	77.2%	2014	up 31.1%	rising
26	Togo	76.4%	2017	up 29.0%	rising
27	Guatemala	76.2%	2015	up 28.0%	rising
28	Ghana	73.1%	2018	up 11.0%	rising
29	Zambia	73.1%	2018	up 16.0%	rising
30	Cameroon	72.5%	2014	up 23.3%	rising
31	Nigeria	70.9%	2018	up 3.8%	rising
32	Gambia	69.3%	2018	up 20.8%	rising
33	Sierra Leone	64.9%	2017	up 39.3%	rising
34	Rwanda	61.1%	2015	up 458.8%	volatile
35	Haiti	57.9%	2017	up 28.9%	rising
36	Ethiopia	52.3%	2016	up 124.3%	rising
37	Malawi	51.7%	2016	up 8.9%	rising
38	Senegal	51.5%	2017	up 131.5%	rising
39	Uganda	45.3%	2016	up 38.7%	rising
40	Benin	44.1%	2018	up 5.1%	rising
41	Mali	42.3%	2018	up 72.3%	rising
42	Guinea	39.1%	2018	up 64.3%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, primary 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/