Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece
Greece: Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher was 0.981 GPIA in 2024. β² Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece, 1981β2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
Greece recorded 0.981 GPIA for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in 2024.
The figure is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Greece peaked at 0.9818 GPIA in 2022 and was at its lowest, 0.7987 GPIA, in 1981.
Greece ranks 79th of 133 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 34 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.7987 GPIA | 0.7987 GPIA | 0.7987 GPIA | 1 |
| 1990s | 0.9155 GPIA | 0.896 GPIA | 0.9236 GPIA | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.9432 GPIA | 0.9266 GPIA | 0.9792 GPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.9623 GPIA | 0.949 GPIA | 0.977 GPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.9793 GPIA | 0.9748 GPIA | 0.9818 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 0.981 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 0.9818 GPIA in 2022.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Greece?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7987 GPIA in 1981.
- How does Greece rank for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher?
- Greece ranks 79th out of 133 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 1.9%. 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 primary 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