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

Countries reporting

Highest

99.7%

United States

Lowest

42.0%

Uganda

Median

84.0%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

391

What the numbers show

Completion rate, primary education, male (%) is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 99.7% in United States; the lowest is 42.0% in Uganda.

The median across all reporting countries is 84.0%, and the mean is 78.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 40 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 375.4%), and the largest decrease in Benin (down 7.6%).

Completion rate, primary education, male: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United States	99.7%	2017	up 0.0%	flat
2	Ecuador	98.7%	2018	up 5.2%	rising
3	Mongolia	97.9%	2018	up 3.8%	rising
4	Mexico	97.5%	2018	up 3.1%	rising
5	Bolivia	96.9%	2018	up 5.2%	rising
6	Uruguay	96.9%	2018	up 3.9%	flat
7	Peru	96.9%	2018	up 4.7%	rising
8	Vietnam	96.2%	2014	up 6.6%	rising
9	Chile	95.7%	2017	up 0.3%	flat
10	Panama	95.7%	2018	up 5.1%	rising
11	Indonesia	95.6%	2017	up 4.5%	rising
12	Costa Rica	95.4%	2018	up 7.5%	rising
13	Brazil	93.9%	2018	up 1.8%	rising
14	Venezuela	92.9%	2014	up 7.8%	rising
15	Paraguay	92.4%	2018	up 8.5%	rising
16	Dominican Republic	91.2%	2018	up 13.6%	rising
17	Colombia	90.9%	2018	up 4.6%	rising
18	Philippines	89.0%	2018	up 11.4%	rising
19	El Salvador	88.1%	2018	up 15.5%	rising
20	Zimbabwe	86.4%	2019	up 5.5%	flat
21	Honduras	84.0%	2018	up 11.4%	rising
22	Nepal	84.0%	2016	up 21.8%	rising
23	Togo	83.0%	2017	up 34.4%	rising
24	Kenya	81.4%	2014	up 56.2%	rising
25	Guatemala	79.9%	2015	up 22.0%	rising
26	Bangladesh	76.3%	2019	up 23.1%	rising
27	Cameroon	74.8%	2014	up 25.2%	rising
28	Zambia	71.1%	2018	up 18.1%	rising
29	Nigeria	70.7%	2018	down 1.1%	rising
30	Ghana	68.9%	2018	up 7.1%	rising
31	Cambodia	67.7%	2014	up 14.8%	rising
32	Sierra Leone	63.2%	2017	up 28.9%	rising
33	Gambia	61.3%	2018	up 3.0%	rising
34	Guinea	52.3%	2018	up 18.1%	rising
35	Mali	52.2%	2018	up 43.6%	rising
36	Ethiopia	51.9%	2016	up 57.5%	rising
37	Benin	50.9%	2018	down 7.6%	rising
38	Senegal	48.6%	2017	up 74.5%	rising
39	Haiti	48.4%	2017	up 31.7%	rising
40	Rwanda	47.6%	2015	up 375.4%	rising
41	Malawi	42.6%	2016	up 5.0%	rising
42	Uganda	42.0%	2016	up 49.3%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, primary education, male (%)
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/