Completion rate, primary education, female in SDG: Least Developed Countries
SDG: Least Developed Countries: Completion rate, primary education, female was 70.4% in 2025. β² Rising
Completion rate, primary education, female in SDG: Least Developed Countries, 1990β2025
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
SDG: Least Developed Countries recorded 70.4% for completion rate, primary education, female in 2025. That is the highest value across all 36 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.4% on the previous year and up 19.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, completion rate, primary education, female in SDG: Least Developed Countries peaked at 70.4% in 2025 and was at its lowest, 24.4%, in 1990.
That places SDG: Least Developed Countries 36th out of 39 groups with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 36 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 29.0% | 24.4% | 34.2% | 10 |
| 2000s | 42.3% | 35.5% | 49.5% | 10 |
| 2010s | 58.0% | 51.3% | 63.9% | 10 |
| 2020s | 67.8% | 65.0% | 70.4% | 6 |
Countries ranked near SDG: Least Developed Countries
More education data for SDG: Least Developed Countries
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 93.3% (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in general 92.1% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female 36.37 million (2024)
- Share of all students in secondary education enrolled in vocational 6.7% (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male 39.55 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes 22.98 million (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes 4.43 million (2024)
- Enrolment in primary education, male 87.82 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, both sexes 74.48 million (2024)
- School age population, upper secondary education, male 37.68 million (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is completion rate, primary education, female in SDG: Least Developed Countries?
- Completion rate, primary education, female in SDG: Least Developed Countries was 70.4% in 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest completion rate, primary education, female recorded in SDG: Least Developed Countries?
- The highest recorded value was 70.4% in 2025.
- What is the lowest completion rate, primary education, female recorded in SDG: Least Developed Countries?
- The lowest recorded value was 24.4% in 1990.
- How does SDG: Least Developed Countries rank for completion rate, primary education, female?
- SDG: Least Developed Countries ranks 36th out of 39 groups with data for 2025.
- Is completion rate, primary education, female rising or falling in SDG: Least Developed Countries?
- Over the last ten years it is up 19.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this SDG: Least Developed Countries data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Completion rate, primary education, female (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release