Saudi Arabia's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) was 103.54% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 3.58 percentage points from 99.97% in 2019.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 103.54% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 99.97% | 2019 |
| Highest | 116.07% | 2022 |
| Lowest | 43.24% | 1979 |
| Average since 2016 | 103.49% | 2016–2024 |
| First recorded | 43.24% | 1979 |
Over five years it is up 3.58 percentage points from 99.97% in 2019. Since 1979 it is up 60.3 percentage points from 43.24% in 1979. The World Bank has no value for 32 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 16.79 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.91 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 4% of the movement over 8 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Saudi Arabia had the 8th highest value of the 93 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | 103.54% | 2024 |
| World | 77.89% | 2024 |
| High income | 95.56% | 2024 |
Closest to Saudi Arabia in the 2024 ranking
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 14 values
| Year | Lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 103.54 |
| 2023 | no data |
| 2022 | 116.07 |
| 2021 | 99.28 |
| 2020 | 97.13 |
| 2019 | 99.97 |
| 2018 | 102.66 |
| 2017 | 107.57 |
| 2016 | 101.67 |
| 2015 | no data |
| 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 Saudi Arabia
- Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
- Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
- Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
- School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 83.88% (2024)
- School enrollment, tertiary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.01 (2024)
- School enrollment, tertiary, female (% gross) — 84.15% (2024)
- School enrollment, tertiary, male (% gross) — 83.65% (2024)
- Tertiary education, academic staff (% female) — 48.05% (2024)
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Questions people ask
- What is Saudi Arabia's lower secondary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)?
- 103.54% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1979?
- It is up 60.3 percentage points from 43.24% in 1979. The highest value was 116.07% in 2022 and the lowest 43.24% in 1979.
- How does Saudi Arabia rank?
- 8th highest of 93 economies with data for 2024.
- Where does this data come from?
- The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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..
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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