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Lesotho: Progression to secondary school

87.53percent · 2015+6.5% since 2005

Progression to secondary school refers to the number of new entrants to the first grade of secondary school in a given year as a percentage of the number of students enrolled in the final grade of primary school in the previous year (minus the number of repeaters from the last grade of primary education in the given year). Annual figures for Lesotho from 1971 to 2015.

19712015

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201587.53
201486.596
201384.901
201284.711
201185.607
201085.013
200987.703
200884.726
200780.424
200676.252
200582.159
200474.31
200373.677
200278.362
200175.882
200068.501
199964.198
199867.238
199766.804
198667.679
198563.648
197245.498
197133.898

Source

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

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World Bank (2026). Progression to secondary school. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-progression-to-secondary-school (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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