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Sri Lanka: Lower secondary completion rate, total

91.92percent · 2023+4.3% since 2012

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 Sri Lanka from 1970 to 2023.

19722023

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202391.921
202295.648
202196.919
202094.877
201992.581
201792.588
201692.01
201594.144
201493.978
201392.548
201288.14
201190.948
201092.339
200985.702
200792.468
200696.527
200593.607
200389.686
200286.016
200185.288
199885.085
199271.3
199169.846
199069.365
198967.732
198763.218
198680.661
198573.557
198478.842
198370.29
198239.041
198162.087
198077.641
197977.208
197720.068
19767.187
197557.848
197456.636
197362.485
197246.944
197140.858
197039.795

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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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