Completion rate, lower secondary education, rural — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — Rural by country
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and...
What the numbers show
Completion rate, lower secondary education, rural — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — Rural is currently reported for 78 countries. The highest value is 100 % in Armenia; the lowest is 4.99 % in Niger.
The median across all reporting countries is 85.14 %, and the mean is 72.39 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 20.
Over the past decade 66 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Sierra Leone (up 417.9%), and the largest decrease in Malawi (down 6.6%).
Completion rate, lower secondary education, rural — Value — All age: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armenia | 100 % | 2023 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 1 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 100 % | 2019 | up 0.8% | flat |
| 1 | Russian Federation | 100 % | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Norway | 100 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Latvia | 100 % | 2021 | up 1.9% | flat |
| 1 | Georgia | 100 % | 2023 | up 1.8% | rising |
| 1 | Finland | 100 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 8 | Italy | 99.61 % | 2021 | up 0.9% | flat |
| 9 | Croatia | 99.55 % | 2021 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 10 | Austria | 99.46 % | 2021 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 11 | Greece | 99.39 % | 2021 | up 4.3% | rising |
| 12 | Slovenia | 99.38 % | 2021 | up 1.4% | flat |
| 13 | Estonia | 99.26 % | 2021 | up 2.6% | flat |
| 14 | Chile | 99.1 % | 2022 | up 5.1% | rising |
| 15 | Denmark | 98.99 % | 2021 | down 1.0% | flat |
| 16 | Lithuania | 98.88 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 17 | Sweden | 98.55 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 18 | Switzerland | 98.06 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 19 | France | 97.92 % | 2021 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 20 | Portugal | 97.9 % | 2021 | up 5.0% | rising |
| 21 | Luxembourg | 97.11 % | 2021 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 22 | Hungary | 96.92 % | 2021 | down 1.4% | flat |
| 23 | Bulgaria | 96.79 % | 2021 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 24 | Spain | 96.04 % | 2021 | up 11.6% | rising |
| 25 | Mongolia | 95.96 % | 2023 | up 31.2% | rising |
| 26 | Uruguay | 94.97 % | 2024 | up 66.0% | rising |
| 27 | Germany | 94.73 % | 2021 | down 3.7% | flat |
| 28 | Poland | 94.64 % | 2021 | down 3.8% | flat |
| 29 | Romania | 94.09 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 30 | Belgium | 93.38 % | 2021 | up 6.2% | rising |
| 31 | Cyprus | 92.85 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 32 | Peru | 91.7 % | 2023 | up 25.6% | rising |
| 33 | Ecuador | 90.6 % | 2023 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 34 | South Africa | 89.97 % | 2024 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 35 | Jordan | 89.74 % | 2023 | down 5.0% | flat |
| 36 | Thailand | 88.98 % | 2022 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 37 | Costa Rica | 87 % | 2023 | up 46.2% | rising |
| 38 | Egypt | 86.31 % | 2022 | up 12.2% | rising |
| 39 | Indonesia | 85.38 % | 2022 | up 29.1% | rising |
| 40 | Dominican Republic | 84.9 % | 2023 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 41 | Mexico | 84.6 % | 2022 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 42 | Kenya | 84.44 % | 2024 | up 30.5% | rising |
| 43 | India | 84.22 % | 2019 | up 15.6% | rising |
| 44 | China, mainland | 83.72 % | 2018 | up 7.6% | rising |
| 45 | Brazil | 83.2 % | 2023 | up 23.4% | rising |
| 46 | Panama | 82.3 % | 2023 | up 34.5% | rising |
| 47 | Philippines | 81.2 % | 2022 | up 23.3% | rising |
| 48 | Guyana | 80.51 % | 2019 | up 10.1% | rising |
| 49 | Paraguay | 80.36 % | 2024 | up 24.8% | rising |
| 50 | Colombia | 73.64 % | 2024 | up 28.1% | rising |
| 51 | Nepal | 71.31 % | 2021 | up 26.1% | rising |
| 52 | Bangladesh | 70.78 % | 2022 | up 47.4% | rising |
| 53 | El Salvador | 70.2 % | 2023 | up 24.7% | rising |
| 54 | Nigeria | 68.46 % | 2024 | up 86.0% | rising |
| 55 | Suriname | 65.46 % | 2022 | up 125.3% | rising |
| 56 | Zimbabwe | 62.04 % | 2015 | up 29.5% | rising |
| 57 | Sao Tome and Principe | 58.49 % | 2019 | up 182.0% | rising |
| 58 | Ghana | 52.06 % | 2022 | up 57.7% | rising |
| 59 | Cambodia | 50.16 % | 2021 | up 58.8% | rising |
| 60 | Lesotho | 45.35 % | 2024 | up 119.3% | rising |
| 61 | Honduras | 43.68 % | 2024 | up 44.2% | rising |
| 62 | Guatemala | 41 % | 2024 | up 17.1% | rising |
| 63 | Togo | 31.44 % | 2022 | up 136.6% | volatile |
| 64 | Gambia | 30.48 % | 2023 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 65 | Sierra Leone | 29.26 % | 2019 | up 417.9% | volatile |
| 66 | Cameroon | 26.79 % | 2018 | up 172.8% | rising |
| 67 | Rwanda | 25.58 % | 2022 | up 93.1% | volatile |
| 68 | Haiti | 22.79 % | 2017 | up 57.4% | rising |
| 69 | Senegal | 20.29 % | 2023 | up 65.8% | volatile |
| 70 | Benin | 18.66 % | 2022 | up 2.0% | rising |
| 71 | Ethiopia | 18.65 % | 2022 | up 173.9% | volatile |
| 72 | Uganda | 18.28 % | 2016 | up 86.5% | rising |
| 73 | Malawi | 16.55 % | 2020 | down 6.6% | rising |
| 74 | Mozambique | 12.36 % | 2022 | up 135.9% | volatile |
| 75 | Liberia | 9.09 % | 2019 | up 27.8% | rising |
| 76 | Mali | 8.95 % | 2020 | up 27.0% | volatile |
| 77 | Chad | 6.93 % | 2019 | up 38.0% | rising |
| 78 | Niger | 4.99 % | 2022 | up 345.5% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 90.47 %
- Côte d'Ivoire 13.4 %
- Viet Nam 84.67 %
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 47.8 %
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 38.8 %
- United Republic of Tanzania 18.94 %
About this data
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and on the recommendations of an expert consultation held in December 2023, and covers key dimensions including economic participation, governance, agency, social norms, assets and services, education, health, and nutrition. Indicator selection was informed by expert judgment and by the availability of data with sufficient geographic and temporal coverage to enable meaningful comparisons across regions and over time. While most indicators are produced and published by FAO and other international organizations, the objective of this domain is to provide a one-stop shop for sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems.