Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece
Greece: Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or was 0.923 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece, 1981–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2024, educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece stood at 0.923 GPIA. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 3.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece peaked at 0.923 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.6755 GPIA, in 1981.
Greece ranks 84th of 131 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.6755 GPIA | 0.6755 GPIA | 0.6755 GPIA | 1 |
| 2000s | 0.874 GPIA | 0.8546 GPIA | 0.9098 GPIA | 4 |
| 2010s | 0.8944 GPIA | 0.8882 GPIA | 0.9 GPIA | 7 |
| 2020s | 0.9142 GPIA | 0.8981 GPIA | 0.923 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near Greece
More education data for Greece
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 70,680 (2023)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 2 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 4 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 62.7% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 12.9% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- Primary secondary enrollment completion rates, gaps filled 102.02 (2023)
- School enrollment, primary 102.0% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece?
- Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or in Greece was 0.923 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 0.923 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6755 GPIA in 1981.
- How does Greece rank for educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or?
- Greece ranks 84th out of 131 countries with data for 2024.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is up 3.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Greece data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Educational attainment rate, completed lower secondary education or higher, population 25+ years, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release