Completion rate, primary education, rural, both sexes (%) by country

Countries reporting

Highest

98.5%

Uruguay

Lowest

27.2%

Guinea

Median

79.3%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

369

What the numbers show

Completion rate, primary education, rural, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 38 countries. The highest value is 98.5% in Uruguay; the lowest is 27.2% in Guinea.

The median across all reporting countries is 79.3%, and the mean is 71.8%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 510.1%), and the largest decrease in Nigeria (down 6.8%).

Completion rate, primary education, rural, both sexes: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Uruguay	98.5%	2018	up 1.4%	flat
2	Ecuador	98.1%	2018	up 7.5%	rising
3	Mongolia	97.6%	2018	up 6.0%	rising
5	Chile	96.3%	2017	up 0.6%	rising
6	Costa Rica	96.1%	2018	up 9.6%	rising
7	Vietnam	96.0%	2014	up 9.1%	rising
8	Bolivia	95.8%	2018	up 10.0%	rising
9	Indonesia	95.1%	2017	up 5.0%	rising
10	Peru	95.0%	2018	up 10.4%	rising
11	Dominican Republic	92.4%	2018	up 16.6%	rising
12	Brazil	92.2%	2018	up 3.1%	rising
14	Paraguay	91.5%	2018	up 12.3%	rising
15	Philippines	90.9%	2018	up 14.1%	rising
16	Colombia	87.7%	2018	up 10.0%	rising
17	Zimbabwe	85.6%	2019	up 5.5%	flat
18	El Salvador	85.5%	2018	up 26.7%	rising
19	Honduras	82.8%	2018	up 15.8%	rising
20	Bangladesh	82.5%	2019	up 23.5%	rising
21	Kenya	81.1%	2014	up 54.9%	rising
22	Nepal	77.6%	2016	up 25.8%	rising
23	Togo	75.6%	2017	up 57.3%	rising
24	Guatemala	72.2%	2015	up 44.6%	rising
25	Cambodia	70.1%	2014	up 24.3%	rising
26	Ghana	64.9%	2018	up 16.7%	rising
27	Cameroon	60.4%	2014	up 53.7%	rising
28	Zambia	60.4%	2018	up 36.0%	rising
29	Nigeria	57.0%	2018	down 6.8%	rising
30	Rwanda	51.4%	2015	up 510.1%	volatile
31	Gambia	46.3%	2018	down 0.9%	rising
32	Sierra Leone	44.4%	2017	up 55.1%	volatile
33	Ethiopia	43.4%	2016	up 127.4%	volatile
34	Malawi	42.7%	2016	up 10.9%	rising
35	Haiti	42.2%	2017	up 59.6%	rising
36	Benin	40.4%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
37	Uganda	38.0%	2016	up 52.8%	rising
38	Senegal	37.6%	2017	up 257.0%	rising
39	Mali	36.7%	2018	up 68.7%	rising
40	Guinea	27.2%	2018	up 52.0%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, primary education, rural, both sexes (%)
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 40 places, 369 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/