Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Uruguay
Uruguay: Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher was 86.1% in 2024. β² Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Uruguay, 2006β2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
Uruguay recorded 86.1% for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in 2024. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.2% on the previous year and up 11.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Uruguay peaked at 86.1% in 2024 and was at its lowest, 68.8%, in 2006.
That places Uruguay 58th out of 100 countries with data for 2024, putting it 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 71.1% | 68.8% | 73.1% | 3 |
| 2010s | 78.3% | 74.4% | 82.0% | 10 |
| 2020s | 84.3% | 81.6% | 86.1% | 4 |
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More education data for Uruguay
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 18,882 (2023)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 3 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 65.8% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 17.9% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 104.5% (2023)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0056 units per person (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Uruguay?
- Educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher in Uruguay was 86.1% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 86.1% in 2024.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 68.8% in 2006.
- How does Uruguay rank for educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher?
- Uruguay ranks 58th out of 100 countries with data for 2024.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed primary education or higher rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is up 11.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Uruguay 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, rural, male (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release