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Ghana: Lower secondary completion rate, total

85.11percent · 2024+38.3% since 2008

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 Ghana from 1971 to 2024.

19712024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202485.112
201974.75
201874.414
201770.198
201572.075
201465.536
201367.423
201264.757
201165.982
200969.004
200861.539
200552.888
200450.057
200348.457
200250.562
200146.339
200049.528
199948.502
199255.191
199153.919
198940.551
197547.011
197447.932
197247.036
197146.201

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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