Year-over-year change: +0.7 pp, trend up
5-year change: +3.8 pp, trend up
Peru
Lower secondary completion rate: 95.7%
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Rankings at a glance
Highest 10 · Percentage of children who complete lower secondary education (2024)
Among the 10 countries with 2024 data, Peru has the highest percentage of children who complete lower secondary education at 95.68% in 2024, followed by South Africa (92.49%) and Uruguay (88.71%). Paraguay (88%) and Kenya (86.58%) complete the top 5. Colombia (85.44%) and Nigeria (74.07%) follow close behind. Honduras (57.6%), Guatemala (56.5%), and Lesotho (55.99%) round out the top ten. The spread across the top ten is substantial: Peru has 1.7× the figure recorded by Lesotho (55.99%). Four of the top ten are in South America.
Rank changes
How percentage of children who complete lower secondary education changed between 2019 and 2024
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Historical trends
Key terms
- Literacy rate
- — Percentage of population who can read and write a short, simple statement about everyday life.
- Gross enrollment ratio
- — Total enrollment in a level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the eligible school-age population.
- Completion rate
- — Percentage of a cohort of children who complete a given level of education.
- Out-of-school rate
- — Percentage of children of official school age who are not enrolled in school.
- Pupil-teacher ratio
- — Enrolled pupils per TRAINED teacher at a given level of education. It measures how thinly trained teachers are spread, not average class size: the ratio rises when fewer teachers meet the training requirement, whatever happens to the number of pupils in a room.
- Educational attainment
- — Highest level of education completed by the population aged 25 and over.
Frequently asked questions
- Which country has the highest percentage of children who complete lower secondary education?
- Peru has the highest percentage of children who complete lower secondary education among the 10 countries with 2024 data at 95.7% as of 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Which country has the lowest percentage of children who complete lower secondary education?
- Lesotho has the lowest percentage of children who complete lower secondary education among the 10 countries with 2024 data at 56.0% as of 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.