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Sri Lanka: Progression to secondary school

99.43percent · 2017+1.0% since 2001

Progression to secondary school refers to the number of new entrants to the first grade of secondary school in a given year as a percentage of the number of students enrolled in the final grade of primary school in the previous year (minus the number of repeaters from the last grade of primary education in the given year). Annual figures for Sri Lanka from 1971 to 2017.

19712017

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201799.434
201499.724
201399.732
201299.723
201198.457
201098.74
200897.346
200699.445
200599.289
200298.033
200198.418
199196.522
199097.496
198996.348
198896.029
198694.444
198587.873
198485.105
198386.791
198289.42
198178.556
198082.203
197982.625
197880.683
197684.995
197584.855
197480.915
197378.784
197191.659

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Progression to secondary school. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-progression-to-secondary-school (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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