School completion rates by country (UNESCO UIS)

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School completion rates (percent) by country/region and year, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/data/indicators). Each row is one (year, area, indicator): the share of young people completing primary (CR.1), lower secondary (CR.2) and upper secondary (CR.3) education. Method: keyless UIS Data API v1; modelled series (CR.MOD.*) excluded. Units: percent. Caveats: survey-based and sparse for many countries; latest 1-2 years provisional and revised; regional aggregates have no iso3 code. Coverage: worldwide, 1990 to 2025, yearly granularity. Provenance: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, CC BY-SA 4.0 — please cite the UIS with the extraction date. Primary key: (indicator_id, area, year). Join keys: iso3 (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly. Sample use: filter indicator_id='CR.2' to compare lower-secondary completion across countries.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Rows: 7,863
Columns: 6
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 23, 2026
Theme: education

Column	Type	Description
year	integer	Reference year of the observation.
iso3	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code; null for UIS regional aggregates.
area	string	Country name (resolved from the ISO code via hub.normalize) or the UIS regional aggregate label verbatim; with indicator_id and year forms the primary key.
indicator_id	string	UIS indicator code (e.g. LR.AG15T99, CR.1).
indicator_label	string	Human-readable UIS indicator label, from the SDG 4 monitoring framework.
value_pct	float	Indicator value in percent. (unit: percent)

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

year	iso3	area	indicator_id	indicator_label	value_pct
2,011	AFG	Afghanistan	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	40.726
2,015	AFG	Afghanistan	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	54.485
2,022	AFG	Afghanistan	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	44.242
2,000	ALB	Albania	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	95.19
2,005	ALB	Albania	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	98.91
2,009	ALB	Albania	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	98.191
2,017	ALB	Albania	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	95.402
2,013	DZA	Algeria	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	94.241
2,019	DZA	Algeria	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	94.054
2,015	AGO	Angola	CR.1	Completion rate, primary education (%)	59.956

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_completion_rates" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_completion_rates").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_completion_rates

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). (2026). School completion rates by country (UNESCO UIS) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T064237Z-9f283928a226, sha256 9f283928a226]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-23, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_completion_rates?snapshot=20260923T064237Z-9f283928a226

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@misc{dz_unesco_uis_unesco_uis_completion_rates_9f283928,
  title        = {{School completion rates by country (UNESCO UIS)}},
  author       = {{UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/unesco_uis/unesco_uis_completion_rates?snapshot=20260923T064237Z-9f283928a226}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260923T064237Z-9f283928a226, sha256 9f283928a226843de2f3e7c528c3fb77c589dce6a6ab18ec750e8234b824ccd6; accessed 2026-09-23}
}

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