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

Countries reporting

Highest

99.2%

Mongolia

Lowest

57.9%

Benin

Median

91.0%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

392

What the numbers show

Completion rate, primary education, urban, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 99.2% in Mongolia; the lowest is 57.9% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 91.0%, and the mean is 87.0%.

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

Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 205.6%), and the largest decrease in Benin (down 7.7%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Mongolia	99.2%	2018	up 1.8%	rising
2	Ecuador	99.0%	2018	up 2.9%	rising
3	Panama	98.2%	2018	up 1.4%	flat
4	Mexico	98.1%	2018	up 2.0%	flat
5	Vietnam	98.1%	2014	up 3.9%	flat
6	Bolivia	98.0%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
7	Indonesia	97.9%	2017	up 2.3%	flat
8	Peru	97.8%	2018	up 2.3%	rising
9	Uruguay	97.5%	2018	up 3.0%	flat
10	Argentina	97.5%	2018	up 2.1%	flat
11	Zimbabwe	97.3%	2019	up 1.2%	flat
12	Costa Rica	96.4%	2018	up 2.6%	rising
13	Chile	96.3%	2017	unchanged	flat
14	Brazil	95.8%	2018	up 0.5%	flat
15	Paraguay	95.7%	2018	up 3.8%	rising
16	Colombia	95.0%	2018	up 2.2%	rising
17	Dominican Republic	94.4%	2018	up 9.1%	rising
18	Philippines	93.2%	2018	up 2.9%	flat
19	El Salvador	92.9%	2018	up 9.5%	rising
20	Kenya	91.9%	2014	up 29.2%	rising
21	Honduras	91.0%	2018	up 3.7%	rising
22	Nigeria	88.0%	2018	up 1.7%	rising
23	Zambia	87.5%	2018	up 7.4%	rising
24	Nepal	87.2%	2016	up 15.0%	rising
25	Guatemala	86.6%	2015	up 13.3%	rising
26	Cameroon	86.4%	2014	up 16.2%	flat
27	Togo	85.7%	2017	up 10.6%	rising
28	Cambodia	84.9%	2014	up 16.9%	rising
29	Ethiopia	83.3%	2016	up 18.8%	rising
30	Bangladesh	83.0%	2019	up 20.1%	rising
31	Sierra Leone	82.8%	2017	up 16.0%	rising
32	Ghana	78.7%	2018	up 2.8%	flat
33	Mali	73.8%	2018	up 37.2%	rising
34	Gambia	73.3%	2018	down 0.9%	rising
35	Malawi	73.3%	2016	up 7.6%	flat
36	Haiti	69.4%	2017	up 14.4%	rising
37	Rwanda	67.7%	2015	up 205.6%	rising
38	Guinea	67.5%	2018	up 19.7%	rising
39	Senegal	65.3%	2017	up 61.2%	rising
40	Uganda	64.0%	2016	up 2.1%	flat
41	Benin	57.9%	2018	down 7.7%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, primary 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/