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

Countries reporting

Highest

93.4%

United States

Lowest

12.1%

Benin

Median

36.4%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

385

What the numbers show

Completion rate, upper secondary education, male (%) is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 93.4% in United States; the lowest is 12.1% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 36.4%, and the mean is 44.1%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 8.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 342.3%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 39.5%).

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

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	United States	93.4%	2017	up 5.8%	rising
2	Peru	86.1%	2018	up 15.2%	rising
3	Chile	83.3%	2017	up 6.7%	rising
4	Bolivia	75.0%	2018	up 18.6%	rising
5	Philippines	73.9%	2018	up 30.4%	rising
6	Mongolia	72.5%	2018	up 22.9%	rising
7	Ecuador	70.6%	2018	up 34.4%	rising
8	Colombia	69.3%	2018	up 16.8%	rising
9	Venezuela	64.5%	2014	up 51.0%	rising
10	Indonesia	63.6%	2017	up 41.6%	rising
11	Panama	63.5%	2018	up 22.2%	rising
12	Brazil	62.2%	2018	up 10.5%	rising
13	Paraguay	60.8%	2018	up 21.9%	rising
14	El Salvador	58.1%	2018	up 93.9%	rising
15	Nigeria	57.4%	2018	up 7.1%	rising
16	Mexico	56.5%	2018	up 29.3%	rising
17	Dominican Republic	54.2%	2018	up 26.5%	rising
18	Costa Rica	53.5%	2018	up 38.7%	rising
19	Vietnam	50.1%	2014	up 78.6%	rising
20	Kenya	46.0%	2014	up 73.2%	rising
21	Guatemala	36.4%	2015	up 36.2%	rising
22	Ghana	36.2%	2018	up 14.8%	volatile
23	Uruguay	34.3%	2018	up 22.1%	rising
24	Honduras	32.5%	2018	up 11.3%	rising
25	Zambia	32.4%	2018	up 41.6%	rising
26	Bangladesh	31.6%	2019	up 215.4%	rising
27	Togo	31.3%	2017	up 168.2%	volatile
28	Gambia	28.2%	2018	up 4.7%	rising
29	Sierra Leone	24.6%	2017	up 67.2%	volatile
30	Guinea	23.4%	2018	up 208.6%	rising
31	Cambodia	21.6%	2014	up 64.9%	rising
32	Uganda	20.0%	2016	up 58.9%	rising
33	Rwanda	19.2%	2015	up 342.3%	volatile
34	Cameroon	18.1%	2014	up 84.9%	rising
35	Haiti	17.0%	2017	up 22.9%	rising
36	Zimbabwe	16.6%	2019	up 3.2%	rising
37	Mali	16.0%	2018	up 36.7%	rising
38	Malawi	15.4%	2016	down 39.5%	flat
39	Senegal	14.5%	2017	up 197.3%	rising
40	Ethiopia	12.3%	2016	up 42.2%	rising
41	Benin	12.1%	2018	down 16.3%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, upper secondary education, male (%)
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/