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Nepal: Lower secondary completion rate, total

98.25percent · 2025+16.3% 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 Nepal from 1988 to 2025.

19882025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202598.249
2024101.486
2023103.467
2022100.666
202195.224
202098.954
201999.798
201794.939
201690.416
201587.478
201484.463
201380.094
201275.818
201169.304
201067.144
200856.249
200345.05
200245.941
200144.332
200040.8
199937.396
199236.187
199133.324
198830.303

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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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