Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or higher, population 25+ years, non-immigrant background, male (%) by country

February 2026 Data Release

Countries reporting
39
Highest
100.0%
Norway
Lowest
30.1%
Honduras
Median
96.2%
Years covered
31
1994–2024
Data points
508

What the numbers show

Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or higher, population 25+ years, non-immigrant background, male (%) is currently reported for 39 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Norway; the lowest is 30.1% in Honduras.

The median across all reporting countries is 96.2%, and the mean is 91.0%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 31 countries rose and 6 fell. The largest increase was in Albania (up 83.1%), and the largest decrease in Denmark (down 6.3%).

Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Norway 100.0% 2023 up 0.0% flat
2 Czechia 99.8% 2023 up 0.0% flat
3 Austria 99.7% 2021 down 0.1% flat
4 Switzerland 99.6% 2024 up 0.4% flat
5 Iceland 99.5% 2023 up 18.7% rising
6 Slovak Republic 99.5% 2023 down 0.0% flat
7 Slovenia 99.4% 2023 up 1.1% flat
8 Hungary 99.3% 2023 up 0.5% flat
9 Armenia 99.2% 2023 down 0.2% flat
10 Latvia 99.1% 2023 up 0.1% flat
11 Poland 99.1% 2023 up 0.6% flat
12 United States 98.8% 2024 down 0.4% flat
13 Estonia 98.5% 2023 up 0.2% flat
14 Lithuania 98.4% 2023 up 3.8% rising
15 Germany 98.2% 2023 down 0.6% flat
16 Croatia 97.8% 2023 up 2.5% rising
17 Montenegro 97.6% 2018 β€” flat
18 Bulgaria 97.5% 2023 up 1.6% flat
19 Sweden 96.4% 2023 up 2.4% flat
20 Luxembourg 96.2% 2023 up 1.1% rising
21 Romania 95.3% 2023 up 3.3% rising
22 Albania 94.3% 2023 up 83.1% rising
23 Netherlands 93.7% 2023 up 1.0% flat
24 Denmark 93.7% 2023 down 6.3% falling
25 France 93.5% 2023 up 7.3% rising
26 Belgium 92.2% 2023 up 7.0% rising
27 Brunei Darussalam 91.9% 2023 up 4.0% flat
28 Mongolia 91.3% 2024 up 8.1% rising
29 Finland 90.9% 2023 up 7.2% rising
30 Italy 87.4% 2023 up 7.9% rising
31 Spain 86.8% 2023 up 16.0% rising
32 Cyprus 86.0% 2023 up 9.5% rising
33 Ireland 85.7% 2020 up 9.8% rising
34 Malta 85.0% 2017 up 10.5% rising
35 Greece 81.7% 2024 up 11.4% rising
36 Ghana 81.3% 2024 up 27.7% rising
37 Portugal 62.0% 2024 up 60.7% rising
38 Costa Rica 52.3% 2024 β€” rising
39 Honduras 30.1% 2023 up 8.2% rising

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or by country. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 21 August 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/stat/educational-attainment-rate-completed-lower-secondary-education-or-higher-population-25-16/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/stat/educational-attainment-rate-completed-lower-secondary-education-or-higher-population-25-16/">Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or by country</a> β€” Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or higher, population 25+ years, non-immigrant background, male (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
39 places, 508 data points, 1994–2024
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release