Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators

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Primary completion rate is the percentage of students completing the last year of primary school. It is calculated by taking the total number of students in the last grade of primary school, minus the number of repeaters in that grade, divided by the total number of children of official graduation age. Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics.
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group) - MDGs - Millenium Development Goals - African Development Indicators (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value
1Seychelles (2007)113.86
2Tanzania (2008)111.67
3Tunisia (2007)99.86
4Egypt (2007)98.45
5Algeria (2007)95.14
6Botswana (2005)94.61
7Libya (1980)94.19
8Mauritius (2007)93.53
9Kenya (2005)92.62
10Zambia (2007)88.09
11Cape Verde (2007)86.24
12South Africa (2007)84.45
13Morocco (2007)83.38
14Zimbabwe (2003)81.03
15Sierra Leone (2007)80.75
16Lesotho (2006)78.32
17Ghana (2008)77.7
18Namibia (2007)77.08
19Sao Tome and Principe (2008)75.61
20Gabon (2003)74.7
21Swaziland (2007)74.62
22Nigeria (2004)72.37
23Republic of the Congo (2007)72.27
24Gambia (2008)69.02
25Equatorial Guinea (2007)66.72
26Benin (2006)64.4
27Guinea (2007)64.2
28Sub-Saharan Africa (2007)63.17
29Madagascar (2007)61.52
30Mauritania (2007)59.44
31Togo (2007)57.38
32Cameroon (2007)55.47
33Malawi (2007)55.36
34Liberia (2008)54.74
35Uganda (2005)54.43
36Mali (2007)52.18
37Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007)50.68
38Comoros (2005)50.49
39Senegal (2007)50.13
40Sudan (2007)49.97
41Eritrea (2007)46.38
42Mozambique (2007)46.32
43Ethiopia (2007)46.28
44Ivory Coast (2007)44.69
45Niger (2007)39.6
46Burundi (2007)39.23
47Burkina Faso (2008)37.07
48Rwanda (2004)35.5
49Djibouti (2006)35.48
50Angola (1991)34.75
51Central African Republic (2008)30.45
52Chad (2007)30.43
53Guinea-Bissau (2001)26.94
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