European Union - Lower secondary completion rate

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

Lower secondary completion rate, female (% of relevant age group) in European Union was 95.84 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 40 years was 96.03 in 2017, while its lowest value was 77.09 in 1982.

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
1980 78.01
1981 77.54
1982 77.09
1983 77.35
1984 77.55
1985 77.83
1986 78.24
1987 78.77
1988 80.13
1989 81.84
1990 81.69
1991 82.16
1992 82.84
1993 83.00
1994 82.69
1995 83.13
1996 84.51
1997 84.85
1998 85.48
1999 86.32
2000 87.01
2001 87.64
2002 88.65
2003 89.49
2004 90.68
2005 91.35
2006 92.54
2007 92.32
2008 92.67
2009 92.79
2010 93.05
2011 94.69
2012 94.52
2013 94.99
2014 95.38
2015 95.36
2016 95.61
2017 96.03
2018 95.97
2019 95.83
2020 95.84

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

Lower secondary completion rate, male (% of relevant age group) in European Union was 95.35 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 40 years was 95.60 in 2017, while its lowest value was 72.40 in 1982.

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
1980 73.35
1981 72.92
1982 72.40
1983 72.68
1984 72.88
1985 73.35
1986 73.89
1987 74.42
1988 76.39
1989 76.80
1990 77.44
1991 77.91
1992 78.50
1993 79.13
1994 78.93
1995 79.30
1996 80.31
1997 80.75
1998 81.24
1999 81.94
2000 83.43
2001 84.87
2002 86.38
2003 87.50
2004 89.01
2005 89.88
2006 91.47
2007 91.54
2008 91.65
2009 91.73
2010 91.89
2011 93.65
2012 93.72
2013 94.11
2014 94.63
2015 94.62
2016 94.94
2017 95.60
2018 95.34
2019 95.35
2020 95.35

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

Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) in European Union was 95.59 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 95.81 in 2017, while its lowest value was 74.94 in 1978.

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
1971 77.73
1972 77.62
1973 78.36
1974 78.92
1975 79.55
1976 80.32
1977 80.70
1978 74.94
1979 82.23
1980 82.21
1981 81.65
1982 80.94
1983 80.94
1984 81.36
1985 82.18
1986 82.92
1987 83.88
1988 78.22
1989 87.27
1990 87.78
1991 88.31
1992 88.77
1993 89.09
1994 88.62
1995 88.36
1996 89.05
1997 89.46
1998 89.75
1999 90.04
2000 90.45
2001 90.83
2002 91.63
2003 92.15
2004 93.13
2005 93.51
2006 94.51
2007 94.05
2008 93.91
2009 93.63
2010 93.45
2011 94.79
2012 94.41
2013 94.53
2014 94.99
2015 94.97
2016 95.27
2017 95.81
2018 95.64
2019 95.58
2020 95.59

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Outcomes