Secondary school enrolment

Enrolment as a share of the population of secondary-school age.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
years covered: 1970–2025
subject: Society

Higher is generally taken as better.

How this is measured

The gross ratio: everyone enrolled in secondary education, whatever their age, over the population of the official age for it. That is why it passes 100 in countries where pupils repeat years or start late, and why it measures places filled rather than children educated.

Ranked for 2024

85 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1970.

#	Country	Region	Secondary school
1	Finland	Europe	142.4%
2	Sweden	Europe	132.0%
3	Australia	Asia-Pacific	131.9%
4	Denmark	Europe	125.6%
5	South Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	122.1%
6	Costa Rica	Americas	121.8%
7	Spain	Europe	118.5%
8	Norway	Europe	116.3%
9	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	114.2%
10	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	110.7%
11	Luxembourg	Europe	108.6%
12	Estonia	Europe	108.5%
13	Albania	Europe	108.4%
14	Peru	Americas	108.3%
15	Poland	Europe	107.9%
16	Hungary	Europe	107.4%
17	Cyprus	Europe	106.7%
18	Chile	Americas	105.6%
19	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	105.2%
20	Lithuania	Europe	104.9%
21	Brazil	Americas	104.1%
22	France	Europe	103.8%
23	Mexico	Americas	103.1%
24	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	102.1%
25	Switzerland	Europe	101.4%
26	Latvia	Europe	101.3%
27	Georgia	Eurasia	101.0%
28	Austria	Europe	100.6%
29	Germany	Europe	100.2%
30	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	99.6%
31	Moldova	Eurasia	99.3%
32	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	98.8%
33	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	98.5%
34	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	98.1%
35	Venezuela	Americas	97.8%
36	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	97.2%
37	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	96.8%
38	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	96.3%
39	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	95.7%
40	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	95.1%
41	Belarus	Eurasia	94.8%
42	Bulgaria	Europe	94.8%
43	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	94.6%
44	Slovakia	Europe	93.2%
45	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	92.5%
46	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	91.8%
47	Cuba	Americas	91.7%
48	Guyana	Americas	91.4%
49	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	91.3%
50	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	91.1%
51	Armenia	Eurasia	90.9%
52	Bolivia	Americas	90.5%
53	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	90.4%
54	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	90.0%
55	Serbia	Europe	89.8%
56	Tajikistan	Eurasia	86.9%
57	Belize	Americas	86.5%
58	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	86.2%
59	Ukraine	Eurasia	86.2%
60	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	85.3%
61	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	84.8%
62	Jamaica	Americas	84.5%
63	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	82.0%
64	Puerto Rico	Americas	81.5%
65	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	80.3%
66	Bahamas	Americas	79.5%
67	Paraguay	Americas	79.1%
68	India	Asia-Pacific	78.1%
69	Dominican Republic	Americas	76.4%
70	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	75.7%
71	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	65.3%
72	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	64.3%
73	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	63.8%
74	El Salvador	Americas	62.1%
75	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	58.8%
76	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	56.8%
77	Laos	Asia-Pacific	51.9%
78	Honduras	Americas	51.8%
79	Guatemala	Americas	49.6%
80	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	48.8%
81	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	48.3%
82	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	38.7%
83	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	30.0%
84	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	23.5%
85	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	19.9%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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