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Malawi: Primary completion rate, total

70.14percent · 2024+4.5% since 2008

Primary completion rate, or gross intake ratio to the last grade of primary education, is the number of new entrants (enrollments minus repeaters) in the last grade of primary education, regardless of age, divided by the population at the entrance age for the last grade of primary education. Data limitations preclude adjusting for students who drop out during the final year of primary education. Annual figures for Malawi from 1974 to 2024.

19762024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202470.14
202368.363
202186.042
201976.565
201477.703
201377.632
201273.543
201170.186
201065.861
200968.133
200867.11
200761.873
200660.704
200560.88
200460.892
200269.479
200166.095
200064.357
199966.179
199661.078
199551.4
199437.629
199335.381
199234.7
199132.746
199030.792
198929.194
198828.245
198734.312
198633.658
198533.955
198432.617
198334.205
198234.6
198135.359
198033.143
197932.866
197830.776
197729.626
197624.913
197522.599
197421.327

Source

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

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World Bank (2026). Primary completion rate, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-primary-completion-rate-total (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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