Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)
ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508): Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in was 26.4% in 2024. ▼ Falling
Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), 1997–2024
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2024, share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) stood at 26.4%. That is the lowest value across all 28 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 5.0% on the previous year and down 4.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) peaked at 42.3% in 2002 and was at its lowest, 26.4%, in 2024.
That places ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) 66th out of 221 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 28 years of available data.
Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508), year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 38.7% | — |
| 1998 | 40.5% | +4.7% |
| 1999 | 41.5% | +2.6% |
| 2000 | 41.8% | +0.6% |
| 2001 | 41.9% | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 42.3% | +0.8% |
| 2003 | 40.5% | -4.1% |
| 2004 | 39.9% | -1.7% |
| 2005 | 37.3% | -6.5% |
| 2006 | 34.1% | -8.5% |
| 2007 | 31.4% | -8.0% |
| 2008 | 30.1% | -4.2% |
| 2009 | 28.2% | -6.2% |
| 2010 | 28.1% | -0.4% |
| 2011 | 28.5% | +1.3% |
| 2012 | 28.0% | -1.6% |
| 2013 | 28.4% | +1.4% |
| 2014 | 27.7% | -2.3% |
| 2015 | 28.1% | +1.1% |
| 2016 | 28.4% | +1.3% |
| 2017 | 29.3% | +3.2% |
| 2018 | 29.5% | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 29.9% | +1.3% |
| 2020 | 30.6% | +2.2% |
| 2021 | 29.9% | -2.1% |
| 2022 | 29.4% | -1.7% |
| 2023 | 27.8% | -5.5% |
| 2024 | 26.4% | -5.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 40.2% | 38.7% | 41.5% | 3 |
| 2000s | 36.7% | 28.2% | 42.3% | 10 |
| 2010s | 28.6% | 27.7% | 29.9% | 10 |
| 2020s | 28.8% | 26.4% | 30.6% | 5 |
Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)
More education data for ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), gaps filled 13.85 million (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 3.95 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), annual growth rate 2.26 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, male (number), gaps filled 14.75 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, female (number), annual growth rate 2.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 1.67 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), gaps filled 28.59 million (2024)
- Enrolment in secondary education, both sexes (number), annual growth 2.58 % change on previous year (2024)
- Enrolment in pre-primary education, both sexes (number), annual 2.7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Teachers in primary education, both sexes (number), annual growth rate 3.4 % change on previous year (2024)
All data for ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) →
Frequently asked questions
- What is share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
- Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) was 26.4% in 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in recorded in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
- The highest recorded value was 42.3% in 2002.
- What is the lowest share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in recorded in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
- The lowest recorded value was 26.4% in 2024.
- How does ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) rank for share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in?
- ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) ranks 66th out of 221 groups with data for 2024.
- Is share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508)?
- Over the last ten years it is down 4.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this ESCWA: Arab Middle-income Countries (mics) (unsdcode:98508) data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of Share of all students in upper secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes, both sexes (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 28 observations, free to reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics).
About this data
February 2026 Data Release