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This is a list of countries by the proportion of the population that has attained at least a secondary education. The list is composed of the percent of the population of the relevant age groups that have completed an upper secondary education in the listed countries.
List of secondary education systems by country. Secondary education covers two phases on the ISCED scale. Level 2 or lower secondary education is considered the second and final phase of basic education, and level 3 or upper secondary education is the stage before tertiary education.
Worldwide, roughly 70 per cent of children complete lower secondary education. However, only 43 per cent of children from the poorest wealth quintile in their country do so, compared to 85 per cent of children from the richest wealth quintile.
In the chart, we see the number of children who aren’t in school across primary and secondary education. This number was around 244 million in 2023. Many children who attend primary school drop out and do not attend secondary school.
Educational attainment, at least completed lower secondary, population 25+, total (%) (cumulative)
Secondary education, pupils from The World Bank: Data
This article provides statistics on levels of education by country, age group and sex of the population of the European Union, EFTA and candidate countries
