Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece
Greece: Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher was 0.987 GPIA in 2024. β² Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece, 1993β2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
In 2024, educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece stood at 0.987 GPIA. That is the highest value across all 32 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece peaked at 0.987 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.9304 GPIA, in 1993.
Greece ranks 54th of 104 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 32 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.9368 GPIA | 0.9304 GPIA | 0.9428 GPIA | 7 |
| 2000s | 0.9575 GPIA | 0.9428 GPIA | 0.9853 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9715 GPIA | 0.9632 GPIA | 0.9821 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9846 GPIA | 0.9795 GPIA | 0.987 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)
- School enrollment, primary 102.0% (2023)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0068 units per person (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece?
- Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece was 0.987 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Greece?
- The highest recorded value was 0.987 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.9304 GPIA in 1993.
- How does Greece rank for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher?
- Greece ranks 54th out of 104 countries with data for 2024.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher rising or falling in Greece?
- Over the last ten years it is up 1.6%. 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 primary education or higher, population 25+ years, urban, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release