Completion rate, upper secondary education, female (%) by country

Countries reporting

Highest

95.2%

United States

Lowest

5.4%

Benin

Median

42.9%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

385

What the numbers show

Completion rate, upper secondary education, female (%) is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 95.2% in United States; the lowest is 5.4% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 42.9%, and the mean is 44.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 18.

Over the past decade 38 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Guinea (up 413.9%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 19.9%).

Completion rate, upper secondary education, female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United States	95.2%	2017	up 3.4%	flat
2	Chile	88.2%	2017	up 9.0%	rising
3	Peru	86.8%	2018	up 17.1%	rising
4	Philippines	83.4%	2018	up 16.4%	rising
5	Mongolia	82.0%	2018	up 26.4%	rising
6	Bolivia	77.2%	2018	up 35.0%	rising
7	Venezuela	76.1%	2014	up 36.6%	rising
8	Colombia	74.5%	2018	up 18.0%	rising
9	Ecuador	74.1%	2018	up 28.0%	rising
10	Brazil	72.7%	2018	up 9.0%	rising
11	Dominican Republic	71.6%	2018	up 17.9%	rising
12	Panama	71.3%	2018	up 16.8%	rising
13	Paraguay	66.3%	2018	up 31.3%	rising
14	Costa Rica	63.4%	2018	up 44.6%	rising
15	Indonesia	62.7%	2017	up 45.3%	rising
16	Mexico	60.8%	2018	up 29.9%	rising
17	Vietnam	60.4%	2014	up 108.4%	rising
18	El Salvador	60.2%	2018	up 85.5%	rising
19	Uruguay	46.8%	2018	up 22.1%	rising
20	Nigeria	43.3%	2018	down 0.0%	rising
21	Honduras	42.9%	2018	up 17.2%	rising
22	Kenya	39.1%	2014	up 70.0%	rising
23	Ghana	35.3%	2018	up 43.6%	volatile
24	Guatemala	32.9%	2015	up 40.9%	rising
25	Bangladesh	27.3%	2019	up 303.3%	volatile
26	Zambia	26.5%	2018	up 37.1%	rising
27	Gambia	24.8%	2018	up 46.4%	rising
28	Cambodia	20.9%	2014	up 166.2%	volatile
29	Haiti	16.2%	2017	up 46.4%	rising
30	Rwanda	16.2%	2015	up 276.8%	volatile
31	Uganda	15.8%	2016	up 78.2%	rising
32	Sierra Leone	14.8%	2017	up 121.9%	volatile
33	Cameroon	14.2%	2014	up 148.7%	volatile
34	Ethiopia	13.7%	2016	up 59.4%	rising
35	Malawi	13.0%	2016	down 19.9%	rising
36	Togo	11.9%	2017	up 73.1%	volatile
37	Guinea	11.8%	2018	up 413.9%	volatile
38	Zimbabwe	11.7%	2019	up 13.8%	rising
39	Senegal	10.1%	2017	up 387.8%	rising
40	Mali	9.7%	2018	up 68.9%	volatile
41	Benin	5.4%	2018	down 4.8%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, upper secondary education, female (%)
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 41 places, 385 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/