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Malawi: Lower secondary completion rate, total

24.38percent · 2024+23.6% since 2011

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 Malawi from 1974 to 2024.

19752024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202424.378
202222.262
202120.989
201822.097
201721.664
201622.599
201523.519
201422.8
201321.992
201219.314
201119.718
201018.775
200920.513
200819.781
200718.655
200620.771
200517.69
199931.666
199645.606
199547.576
199424.578
199334.067
199222.347
199130.16
199028.061
198927.731
198827.768
198727.964
198630.348
198532.036
198432.346
198330.874
198231.039
198127.846
198028.971
197921.649
197825.1
197724.451
197621.686
197520.416
197417.499

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Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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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 2026-11-05.

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