Adolescent Lower Secondary School Completion Rates by UNICEF

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset on the percentage of adolescents aged 3-5 years above the intended age for the last grade of lower secondary education who have completed that level. The data was last updated on March 26, 2026. It is available in CSV and XML formats under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Analyze educational attainment gaps based on age-cohort completion rates.
• Model trends in lower secondary education completion for adolescents.
• Benchmark country-level performance on adolescent education completion metrics.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), an authoritative source.
• Last updated date is explicitly stated as 2026-03-26.
• Available in two structured formats: CSV and XML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Percentage of a cohort of children or young people aged 3-5 years above the intended age for the last grade of lower secondary education who have completed lower secondary education.

Time Range

The description suggests a cohort-based temporal coverage, but specific years are not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 10:09:55.087083

Geography

The description does not specify a geographic scope.