Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) - Country Ranking - Europe

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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Rank Country Value Year
1 Luxembourg 116.74 2019
2 Sweden 107.63 2019
3 Moldova 106.67 2020
4 Malta 104.02 2019
5 Denmark 103.62 2019
6 Poland 103.31 2019
7 Liechtenstein 102.56 2019
8 Finland 101.25 2019
9 Ireland 101.17 2019
10 Iceland 101.04 2019
11 Croatia 100.98 2019
12 Estonia 100.91 2019
13 Lithuania 100.42 2019
14 United Kingdom 99.95 2019
15 Norway 99.69 2019
16 France 99.46 2019
17 Cyprus 98.10 2019
18 Belarus 97.84 2018
19 Austria 97.65 2019
20 Spain 97.64 2019
21 Italy 97.54 2019
22 Latvia 96.89 2019
23 Slovenia 96.18 2019
24 Switzerland 95.62 2019
25 Serbia 95.24 2020
26 Ukraine 94.38 2014
27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 94.21 2018
28 Greece 93.95 2019
29 Hungary 93.74 2019
30 Portugal 93.60 2019
31 Albania 92.70 2020
32 Belgium 92.53 2019
33 Czech Republic 91.97 2019
34 Montenegro 89.69 2020
35 San Marino 88.80 2020
36 Turkey 88.79 2019
37 Romania 88.55 2019
38 North Macedonia 86.18 2018
39 Slovak Republic 83.19 2019
40 Germany 77.44 1997
41 Netherlands 61.55 1999
42 Bulgaria 46.99 2017

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Limitations and Exceptions: Data limitations preclude adjusting for students who drop out during the final year of lower secondary education. Thus this rate is a proxy that should be taken as an upper estimate of the actual lower secondary completion rate. There are many reasons why the rate can exceed 100 percent. The numerator may include late entrants and overage children who have repeated one or more grades of lower secondary education as well as children who entered school early, while the denominator is the number of children at the entrance age for the last grade of lower secondary education.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Lower secondary completion rate is calculated as the number of new entrants (enrollment minus repeaters) 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. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. Population data are drawn from the United Nations Population Division. Using a single source for population data standardizes definitions, estimations, and interpolation methods, ensuring a consistent methodology across countries and minimizing potential enumeration problems in national censuses. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual