Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Guatemala
Guatemala: Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or was 0.9203 GPIA in 2024. ▲ Rising
Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Guatemala, 2000–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in GPIA.
Analysis
Guatemala recorded 0.9203 GPIA for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in 2024. That is the highest value across all 16 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 8.2% on the previous year and up 30.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Guatemala peaked at 0.9203 GPIA in 2024 and was at its lowest, 0.7059 GPIA, in 2014.
That places Guatemala 87th out of 137 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 16 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 0.7856 GPIA | 0.7292 GPIA | 0.8462 GPIA | 4 |
| 2010s | 0.8241 GPIA | 0.7059 GPIA | 0.8991 GPIA | 8 |
| 2020s | 0.8756 GPIA | 0.8504 GPIA | 0.9203 GPIA | 4 |
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More education data for Guatemala
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 122,362 (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 4 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 64.0% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 31.0% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 13 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 7 years (2025)
- Primary secondary enrollment completion rates, gaps filled 101.49 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 101.5% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Guatemala?
- Educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or in Guatemala was 0.9203 GPIA in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Guatemala?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9203 GPIA in 2024.
- What is the lowest educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or recorded in Guatemala?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7059 GPIA in 2014.
- How does Guatemala rank for educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or?
- Guatemala ranks 87th out of 137 countries with data for 2024.
- Is educational attainment rate, completed upper secondary education or rising or falling in Guatemala?
- Over the last ten years it is up 30.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Guatemala 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 gender parity index (GPIA). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
February 2026 Data Release