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Afghanistan: Lower secondary completion rate, total

62.05percent · 2023+269.7% since 1981

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. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 1973 to 2023.

19732023

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202362.053
201960.446
201857.039
201754.772
201652.323
200517.356
199320.248
198513.549
198414.094
198212.477
198116.783
198013.455
19789.351
19777.045
19748.573
19739.788

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Lower secondary completion rate, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-lower-secondary-completion-rate-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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