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Malaysia: Lower secondary completion rate, total

81.47percent · 2024+0.1% since 2014

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 Malaysia from 1998 to 2024.

19982024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202481.467
202381.822
202279.443
202179.53
202075.153
201973.901
201873.144
201776.944
201678.272
201581.943
201481.359
201382.488
201286.931
201186.62
201084.477
200982.93
200883.353
200783.219
200682.109
200580.972
200486.343
200391.944
200282.373
200183.169
200084.798
199984.942
199892.764

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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, 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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