Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Panama
Panama: Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or was 0.4565 LPIA in 2023. ▲ Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Panama, 1980–2023
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in LPIA.
Analysis
Panama recorded 0.4565 LPIA for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in 2023. That is the highest value across all 25 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.9% on the previous year and up 37.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Panama peaked at 0.4565 LPIA in 2023 and was at its lowest, 0.1593 LPIA, in 1980.
Panama ranks 76th of 105 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 25 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.1593 LPIA | 0.1593 LPIA | 0.1593 LPIA | 1 |
| 1990s | 0.2556 LPIA | 0.2556 LPIA | 0.2556 LPIA | 1 |
| 2000s | 0.319 LPIA | 0.2737 LPIA | 0.3556 LPIA | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.3612 LPIA | 0.3316 LPIA | 0.4436 LPIA | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.4502 LPIA | 0.4419 LPIA | 0.4565 LPIA | 3 |
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More education data for Panama
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 19,072 (2017)
- 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 65.8% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 24.5% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- Primary secondary enrollment completion rates, gaps filled 96.94 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 96.9% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Panama?
- Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Panama was 0.4565 LPIA in 2023, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Panama?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4565 LPIA in 2023.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Panama?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1593 LPIA in 1980.
- How does Panama rank for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or?
- Panama ranks 76th out of 105 countries with data for 2023.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or rising or falling in Panama?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Panama data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or higher, population 25+ years, adjusted location parity index (LPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release