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Lesotho: Lower secondary completion rate, female

54.59percent · 2024+2.5% since 2012

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 Lesotho from 1972 to 2024.

19722024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202454.592
202348.976
202255.764
202057.366
201951.367
201854.211
201753.701
201655.056
201455.679
201352.773
201253.271
201051.59
200946.294
200836.427
200733.863
200633.887
200532.126
200430.898
200328.955
200228.016
200128.733
200027.252
199928.339
199826.848
198722.842
198621.582
197312.488
19726.636

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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, female. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-lower-secondary-completion-rate-female (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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