# Countries by primary completion rate (gross intake to the last grade), 2023

All 137 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2023, so the places are comparable. 61 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `primary_completion_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: New entrants to the last grade of primary education, of any age, as a percentage of the population at the theoretical entrance age to that grade. UNESCO Institute for Statistics gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary, which World Development Indicators calls the primary completion rate.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Primary completion rate, total, % of relevant age group (SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/unesco-institute-for-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Primary completion rate, total, % of relevant age group (SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/primary-completion-rate/countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 124.3 |
| 2 | Nauru | 118.3 |
| 3 | Nepal | 117 |
| 4 | Fiji | 116.7 |
| 5 | Vanuatu | 116.1 |
| 6 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 109.6 |
| 7 | Moldova | 109.1 |
| 8 | Gibraltar | 107.7 |
| 9 | Tuvalu | 106.9 |
| 10 | Montenegro | 106.7 |
| 11 | Georgia | 106.2 |
| 12 | Kiribati | 105.8 |
| 13 | Lithuania | 105.2 |
| 14 | Morocco | 104.8 |
| 15 | Portugal | 104.5 |
| 16 | Mexico | 103.8 |
| 17 | Kazakhstan | 103.1 |
| 18 | Cayman Islands | 102.6 |
| 19 | Tonga | 102.6 |
| 20 | Venezuela | 102.2 |
| 21 | Thailand | 102.1 |
| 22 | Brunei | 101.7 |
| 23 | Cyprus | 101.4 |
| 24 | Uruguay | 101.2 |
| 25 | Marshall Islands | 101.1 |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 101.1 |
| 27 | Dominica | 101 |
| 28 | Chile | 100.9 |
| 29 | Slovakia | 100.7 |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 100.7 |
| 31 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100.5 |
| 32 | Croatia | 100.5 |
| 33 | Sierra Leone | 100.4 |
| 34 | Ecuador | 100.2 |
| 35 | Indonesia | 100 |
| 36 | Greece | 99.9 |
| 37 | Sweden | 99.6 |
| 38 | Spain | 99.6 |
| 39 | Germany | 99.3 |
| 40 | Denmark | 99.3 |
| 41 | United Arab Emirates | 99.2 |
| 42 | Argentina | 98.9 |
| 43 | Norway | 98.9 |
| 44 | Finland | 98.9 |
| 45 | Samoa | 98.8 |
| 46 | Czechia | 98.7 |
| 47 | Iceland | 98.6 |
| 48 | South Korea | 98.3 |
| 49 | Austria | 98 |
| 50 | Bangladesh | 98 |
| 51 | Turkmenistan | 97.8 |
| 52 | Latvia | 97.6 |
| 53 | Algeria | 97.5 |
| 54 | Iran | 97.4 |
| 55 | Slovenia | 97.4 |
| 56 | Namibia | 97.4 |
| 57 | Italy | 97.4 |
| 58 | Jordan | 97.2 |
| 59 | Malta | 97.1 |
| 60 | Israel | 96.9 |
| 61 | Switzerland | 96.9 |
| 62 | Singapore | 96.8 |
| 63 | Estonia | 96.8 |
| 64 | Hungary | 96.8 |
| 65 | Belize | 96.5 |
| 66 | Azerbaijan | 96.2 |
| 67 | Bolivia | 96.2 |
| 68 | Kyrgyzstan | 96.1 |
| 69 | San Marino | 96.1 |
| 70 | Uzbekistan | 96.1 |
| 71 | North Macedonia | 95.8 |
| 72 | South Africa | 95.3 |
| 73 | Albania | 95.1 |
| 74 | Maldives | 94.6 |
| 75 | Ukraine | 94.5 |
| 76 | Sri Lanka | 94.5 |
| 77 | Belarus | 94.5 |
| 78 | Bulgaria | 94.5 |
| 79 | Armenia | 94.3 |
| 80 | Mongolia | 94.1 |
| 81 | Seychelles | 94 |
| 82 | Egypt | 93.8 |
| 83 | Palau | 93.8 |
| 84 | Eswatini | 93.6 |
| 85 | Cuba | 93.6 |
| 86 | India | 93.5 |
| 87 | Panama | 93.3 |
| 88 | Timor-Leste | 93.2 |
| 89 | Qatar | 93.2 |
| 90 | Barbados | 92.2 |
| 91 | Malaysia | 91.8 |
| 92 | Dominican Republic | 91.7 |
| 93 | Trinidad and Tobago | 91.6 |
| 94 | Palestine | 91.2 |
| 95 | Saint Lucia | 91.1 |
| 96 | Türkiye | 90.6 |
| 97 | Afghanistan | 90.3 |
| 98 | Paraguay | 90.3 |
| 99 | Mauritius | 90.2 |
| 100 | Macao | 89.5 |
| 101 | Tanzania | 89.3 |
| 102 | Laos | 88.8 |
| 103 | Bahrain | 88.6 |
| 104 | Cambodia | 87.6 |
| 105 | Micronesia | 87.4 |
| 106 | Togo | 87.3 |
| 107 | Guatemala | 85.8 |
| 108 | Zimbabwe | 85.2 |
| 109 | Papua New Guinea | 82.7 |
| 110 | Jamaica | 81.1 |
| 111 | Romania | 81 |
| 112 | British Virgin Islands | 80.8 |
| 113 | El Salvador | 80.8 |
| 114 | Gambia | 80.2 |
| 115 | Luxembourg | 77.5 |
| 116 | Philippines | 77.2 |
| 117 | Côte d’Ivoire | 75.9 |
| 118 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 75.7 |
| 119 | Honduras | 73.5 |
| 120 | Cameroon | 72.2 |
| 121 | Republic of the Congo | 71.1 |
| 122 | Puerto Rico | 70.2 |
| 123 | Andorra | 69.4 |
| 124 | Pakistan | 68.6 |
| 125 | Malawi | 68.4 |
| 126 | Lebanon | 67.3 |
| 127 | Lesotho | 67 |
| 128 | Solomon Islands | 66.5 |
| 129 | Senegal | 61.5 |
| 130 | Syria | 60.1 |
| 131 | Rwanda | 59.3 |
| 132 | Madagascar | 58.3 |
| 133 | Ethiopia | 55.1 |
| 134 | Burkina Faso | 51.7 |
| 135 | Mali | 48.4 |
| 136 | Angola | 47.9 |
| 137 | Niger | 45.8 |