Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Korea
Korea: Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or was 0.7647 GPIA in 2024. β² Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Korea, 2000β2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
Korea recorded 0.7647 GPIA for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in 2024. That is the highest value across all 18 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.1% on the previous year and up 9.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Korea peaked at 0.7647 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.5976 GPIA, in 2001.
Korea ranks 79th of 107 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 18 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.6246 GPIA | 0.5976 GPIA | 0.6549 GPIA | 5 |
| 2010s | 0.7132 GPIA | 0.688 GPIA | 0.7278 GPIA | 8 |
| 2020s | 0.7471 GPIA | 0.7306 GPIA | 0.7647 GPIA | 5 |
Countries ranked near Korea
More education data for Korea
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 173,133 (2024)
- 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 69.5% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 10.2% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 100.9% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, per capita 0.0033 units per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Korea?
- Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Korea was 0.7647 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Korea?
- The highest recorded value was 0.7647 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Korea?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.5976 GPIA in 2001.
- How does Korea rank for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or?
- Korea ranks 79th out of 107 countries with data for 2024.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or rising or falling in Korea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Korea 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, rural, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release