Arab World's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) was 67.43% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 5.7 percentage points from 61.73% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 67.43% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 63.7% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 61.73% | 2014 |
| Highest | 67.58% | 2023 |
| Lowest | 43.61% | 1974 |
| Average since 2015 | 64.7% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 43.61% | 1974 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Arab World's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) fell 0.15 percentage points on 2023 (from 67.58% to 67.43%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.4 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.86 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.68 percentage points in 2013. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.7 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 91% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Arab World | 67.43% | 2024 |
| World | 77.89% | 2024 |
What this measures
Lower secondary education completion rate is measured as the gross intake ratio to the last grade of lower secondary education (general and pre-vocational). It is calculated as the number of new entrants in the last grade of lower secondary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of lower secondary education.
Limitations: The data do not account for students who drop out during the final year of Lower secondary education. Therefore, this rate serves as a proxy and should be considered an upper estimate of the actual Lower secondary completion rate. There are many reasons why the primary completion rate can exceed 100 percent. The numerator may include late entrants and overage children who have repeated one or more grades of primary education as well as children who entered school early, while the denominator is the number of children at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 51 values
| Year | Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 67.43 |
| 2023 | 67.58 |
| 2022 | 66.82 |
| 2021 | 66.88 |
| 2020 | 64.29 |
| 2019 | 63.7 |
| 2018 | 62.98 |
| 2017 | 62.52 |
| 2016 | 62.58 |
| 2015 | 62.17 |
| 2014 |
Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 62.05% (2023)
- Algeria — 79.03% (2025)
- Bahrain — 99.78% (2024)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 83.87% (2024)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 85.24% (2023)
- Israel — 97.81% (2024)
- Jordan — 91.31% (2024)
- Kuwait — 85.33% (2021)
- Lebanon
More education data for Arab World
- Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- School enrollment, tertiary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.08 (2024)
- Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) — 83.15% (2024)
- Primary education, pupils — 55.62 million (2024)
- School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 91.56% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 89.65% (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 93.4% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers — 2.58 million (2024)
- Primary education, teachers (% female)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Arab World's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)?
- 67.43% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1974?
- It is up 23.82 percentage points from 43.61% in 1974. The highest value was 67.58% in 2023 and the lowest 43.61% in 1974.
- Is the latest change in lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) unusual for Arab World?
- In 2024, Arab World's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) fell 0.15 percentage points on 2023 (from 67.58% to 67.43%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.43 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.4 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.4 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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