Euro area - Lower secondary completion rate

Lower secondary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group)

Lower secondary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group) in Euro area was 96.09 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 96.35 in 2018, while its lowest value was 73.59 in 1973.

Definition: Lower secondary education completion rate is measured as the gross intake ratio to the last grade of lower secondary education (general and pre-vocational). It is calculated as the number of new entrants in the last grade of lower secondary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of lower secondary education.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1973 73.59
1974 74.34
1975 75.25
1976 76.11
1977 76.62
1978 78.80
1979 79.13
1980 79.53
1981 78.76
1982 77.83
1983 78.10
1984 78.63
1985 79.63
1986 80.75
1987 82.06
1988 83.88
1989 86.14
1990 86.47
1991 87.55
1992 88.87
1993 89.31
1994 88.18
1995 88.86
1996 89.71
1997 89.58
1998 90.25
1999 90.99
2000 91.22
2001 91.46
2002 92.63
2003 93.14
2004 93.85
2005 94.33
2006 95.61
2007 94.33
2008 93.98
2009 93.54
2010 93.77
2011 94.71
2012 95.12
2013 95.09
2014 95.37
2015 95.06
2016 95.42
2017 96.09
2018 96.35
2019 96.03
2020 96.09

Lower secondary completion rate, male (% of relevant age group)

Lower secondary completion rate, male (% of relevant age group) in Euro area was 95.37 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 95.37 in 2020, while its lowest value was 68.65 in 1973.

Definition: Lower secondary education completion rate is measured as the gross intake ratio to the last grade of lower secondary education (general and pre-vocational). It is calculated as the number of new entrants in the last grade of lower secondary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of lower secondary education.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also:

Year Value
1973 68.65
1974 69.29
1975 69.73
1976 70.55
1977 70.93
1978 72.63
1979 72.83
1980 72.94
1981 72.26
1982 71.26
1983 71.57
1984 72.14
1985 73.37
1986 74.71
1987 75.97
1988 78.76
1989 78.98
1990 80.49
1991 81.43
1992 82.64
1993 83.71
1994 82.60
1995 83.00
1996 83.63
1997 83.63
1998 83.71
1999 84.00
2000 85.54
2001 87.07
2002 88.99
2003 89.89
2004 91.20
2005 91.85
2006 93.63
2007 92.81
2008 92.20
2009 91.69
2010 91.74
2011 92.86
2012 93.58
2013 93.54
2014 94.02
2015 93.80
2016 94.14
2017 95.11
2018 95.32
2019 95.33
2020 95.37

Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)

Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) in Euro area was 95.72 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 95.82 in 2018, while its lowest value was 71.06 in 1973.

Definition: Lower secondary education completion rate is measured as the gross intake ratio to the last grade of lower secondary education (general and pre-vocational). It is calculated as the number of new entrants in the last grade of lower secondary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of lower secondary education.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also:

Year Value
1973 71.06
1974 71.75
1975 72.43
1976 73.27
1977 73.71
1978 75.64
1979 75.91
1980 76.16
1981 75.44
1982 74.47
1983 74.76
1984 75.31
1985 76.42
1986 77.66
1987 78.94
1988 81.26
1989 82.48
1990 83.56
1991 84.66
1992 85.96
1993 86.68
1994 85.48
1995 85.86
1996 86.59
1997 86.53
1998 86.90
1999 87.41
2000 88.31
2001 89.21
2002 90.77
2003 91.48
2004 92.49
2005 93.06
2006 94.60
2007 93.55
2008 93.07
2009 92.59
2010 92.73
2011 93.76
2012 94.33
2013 94.29
2014 94.67
2015 94.41
2016 94.76
2017 95.58
2018 95.82
2019 95.67
2020 95.72

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Outcomes