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

Countries reporting

Highest

89.4%

Peru

Lowest

14.9%

Benin

Median

51.0%

Years covered

1996–2019

Data points

382

What the numbers show

Completion rate, upper secondary education, urban, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 39 countries. The highest value is 89.4% in Peru; the lowest is 14.9% in Benin.

The median across all reporting countries is 51.0%, and the mean is 52.6%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Senegal (up 233.6%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 27.0%).

Completion rate, upper secondary education, urban, both sexes: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Peru	89.4%	2018	up 10.1%	rising
2	Chile	86.6%	2017	up 6.2%	rising
3	Mongolia	84.7%	2018	up 6.7%	rising
4	Bolivia	80.8%	2018	up 12.6%	rising
5	Ecuador	79.0%	2018	up 21.3%	rising
6	Colombia	78.3%	2018	up 10.0%	rising
7	Indonesia	74.1%	2017	up 26.4%	rising
8	Panama	73.4%	2018	up 10.5%	rising
9	Paraguay	71.5%	2018	up 12.8%	rising
10	El Salvador	71.4%	2018	up 72.0%	rising
11	Nigeria	71.3%	2018	up 5.2%	rising
12	Argentina	70.6%	2018	up 8.1%	rising
13	Brazil	70.5%	2018	up 5.9%	rising
14	Vietnam	70.1%	2014	up 28.9%	rising
15	Dominican Republic	66.2%	2018	up 15.6%	rising
16	Mexico	63.4%	2018	up 24.5%	rising
17	Costa Rica	60.1%	2018	up 26.8%	rising
18	Kenya	56.5%	2014	up 40.4%	rising
19	Honduras	52.5%	2018	up 7.4%	rising
20	Guatemala	51.0%	2015	up 27.7%	rising
21	Ghana	48.9%	2018	up 13.6%	volatile
22	Cambodia	48.0%	2014	up 84.3%	rising
23	Zambia	46.2%	2018	up 23.3%	rising
24	Uruguay	40.9%	2018	up 20.1%	rising
25	Ethiopia	39.8%	2016	up 15.2%	rising
26	Rwanda	38.0%	2015	up 153.7%	rising
27	Bangladesh	35.4%	2019	up 109.1%	rising
28	Malawi	34.9%	2016	down 27.0%	falling
29	Guinea	33.3%	2018	up 229.3%	rising
30	Uganda	32.7%	2016	up 18.3%	rising
31	Togo	32.0%	2017	up 106.3%	volatile
32	Gambia	31.6%	2018	down 2.5%	rising
33	Sierra Leone	28.8%	2017	up 47.4%	volatile
34	Mali	27.8%	2018	up 29.9%	rising
35	Zimbabwe	26.4%	2019	up 3.0%	rising
36	Haiti	26.0%	2017	up 35.1%	rising
37	Cameroon	25.0%	2014	up 122.1%	rising
38	Senegal	18.3%	2017	up 233.6%	rising
39	Benin	14.9%	2018	down 9.9%	rising

About this data

Indicator: Completion rate, upper secondary education, urban, both sexes (%)
Unit: %
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 39 places, 382 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/