Completion rate, primary 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, primary education, rural — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — Rural is currently reported for 76 countries. The highest value is 100 % in Latvia; the lowest is 15.39 % in Liberia.
The median across all reporting countries is 96.46 %, and the mean is 83.08 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.
Over the past decade 60 countries rose and 14 fell. The largest increase was in Rwanda (up 103.1%), and the largest decrease in Benin (down 22.9%).
Completion rate, primary education, rural — Value — All age ranges or: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latvia | 100 % | 2021 | up 1.0% | flat |
| 1 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 100 % | 2019 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 1 | Norway | 100 % | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Armenia | 100 % | 2023 | up 0.3% | flat |
| 1 | Israel | 100 % | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Finland | 100 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 7 | Italy | 99.8 % | 2021 | up 0.4% | flat |
| 8 | Croatia | 99.78 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 9 | Austria | 99.73 % | 2021 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 10 | Greece | 99.69 % | 2021 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 10 | Slovenia | 99.69 % | 2021 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 12 | Estonia | 99.63 % | 2021 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 13 | Kyrgyzstan | 99.61 % | 2023 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 14 | Cyprus | 99.57 % | 2020 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 15 | Denmark | 99.5 % | 2021 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 16 | Lithuania | 99.44 % | 2021 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 17 | Sweden | 99.28 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 18 | Russian Federation | 99.23 % | 2022 | down 0.2% | flat |
| 19 | Switzerland | 99.03 % | 2021 | up 0.1% | flat |
| 20 | Ecuador | 99 % | 2023 | up 3.3% | rising |
| 20 | Chile | 99 % | 2022 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 22 | France | 98.96 % | 2021 | down 0.3% | flat |
| 23 | Costa Rica | 98.8 % | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 24 | Indonesia | 98.58 % | 2022 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 98.56 % | 2021 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 26 | Hungary | 98.46 % | 2021 | down 0.7% | flat |
| 27 | Thailand | 98.2 % | 2022 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 28 | Poland | 98.17 % | 2020 | down 0.9% | flat |
| 29 | Mongolia | 98.11 % | 2020 | up 7.8% | rising |
| 30 | Guyana | 98.02 % | 2019 | up 4.7% | flat |
| 31 | Germany | 97.94 % | 2020 | down 0.5% | flat |
| 32 | Peru | 97.9 % | 2023 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 33 | Uruguay | 97.81 % | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 34 | Romania | 97.56 % | 2020 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 35 | Mexico | 97.2 % | 2022 | up 3.5% | rising |
| 36 | South Africa | 97.16 % | 2024 | up 2.8% | rising |
| 37 | Jordan | 96.97 % | 2023 | down 1.1% | flat |
| 38 | China, mainland | 96.73 % | 2018 | up 2.4% | flat |
| 39 | Paraguay | 96.18 % | 2024 | up 13.3% | rising |
| 40 | Egypt | 95.75 % | 2022 | up 6.5% | rising |
| 41 | Brazil | 95.3 % | 2023 | up 11.5% | rising |
| 42 | Colombia | 95.27 % | 2024 | up 9.8% | rising |
| 43 | Philippines | 94.64 % | 2022 | up 10.8% | rising |
| 44 | Panama | 94.5 % | 2023 | up 3.6% | rising |
| 45 | India | 93.5 % | 2019 | up 7.7% | rising |
| 46 | Dominican Republic | 92.7 % | 2023 | up 10.2% | rising |
| 47 | Kenya | 89.46 % | 2024 | up 10.3% | rising |
| 48 | Bangladesh | 89.05 % | 2022 | up 21.2% | rising |
| 49 | Sao Tome and Principe | 87.53 % | 2019 | up 39.0% | rising |
| 50 | El Salvador | 86.8 % | 2023 | up 5.9% | rising |
| 51 | Zimbabwe | 85.62 % | 2019 | up 5.5% | flat |
| 52 | Honduras | 85.34 % | 2024 | up 13.2% | rising |
| 53 | Suriname | 85.31 % | 2022 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 54 | Nepal | 84.85 % | 2021 | up 15.2% | rising |
| 55 | Lesotho | 84.34 % | 2024 | up 41.4% | rising |
| 56 | Cambodia | 80.95 % | 2021 | up 17.7% | rising |
| 57 | Guatemala | 79.44 % | 2024 | up 22.8% | rising |
| 58 | Togo | 71.18 % | 2022 | up 54.4% | rising |
| 59 | Nigeria | 70.2 % | 2024 | up 29.4% | rising |
| 60 | Ghana | 62.01 % | 2022 | up 9.6% | rising |
| 61 | Cameroon | 58.66 % | 2018 | up 52.1% | rising |
| 62 | Rwanda | 58.58 % | 2022 | up 103.1% | rising |
| 63 | Sierra Leone | 55.68 % | 2019 | up 94.4% | volatile |
| 64 | Gambia | 51.26 % | 2023 | up 12.0% | rising |
| 65 | Ethiopia | 47.05 % | 2022 | up 55.3% | rising |
| 66 | Malawi | 44.72 % | 2020 | down 10.5% | rising |
| 67 | Madagascar | 43.83 % | 2021 | up 28.5% | rising |
| 68 | Senegal | 42.13 % | 2023 | up 15.5% | rising |
| 69 | Haiti | 42.04 % | 2017 | up 59.0% | rising |
| 70 | Benin | 40.42 % | 2022 | down 22.9% | rising |
| 71 | Uganda | 38.11 % | 2016 | up 53.2% | rising |
| 72 | Mozambique | 37.53 % | 2022 | up 46.7% | rising |
| 73 | Mali | 36.22 % | 2020 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 74 | Niger | 26.28 % | 2022 | up 41.3% | volatile |
| 75 | Chad | 19.29 % | 2019 | down 3.9% | rising |
| 76 | Liberia | 15.39 % | 2019 | down 9.8% | falling |
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) 99.62 %
- Côte d'Ivoire 46.12 %
- Viet Nam 98.2 %
- Lao People's Democratic Republic 84.16 %
- United Republic of Tanzania 68.52 %
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 53.15 %
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.