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Zambia: Primary completion rate, total

81.83percent · 2013+37.0% since 2002

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 Zambia from 1972 to 2013.

19722013

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201381.827
201289.407
201188.318
201098.689
200985.407
200891.108
200787.137
200683.407
200581.793
200470.451
200259.739
200060.372
199962.945
199865.589
198689.628
198491.007
198385.985
198283.561
198181.673
198081.115
197980.538
197881.612
197777.08
197675.284
197574.645
197472.478
197368.408
197266.436

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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). 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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