Indicators on Education, in the OECD

3   Percentage of upper secondary graduation rates to total population at typical age of graduation. 1999
  General programmes Pre-vocational/ Vocational programmes
  M + W Women M + W Women
OECD countries        
Australia .. .. .. ..
Austria .. .. .. ..
Belgium (Fl.) 33 38 63 64
Canada .. .. .. ..
Czech Republic3 13 15 43 49
Denmark 54 66 59 63
Finland 53 64 67 71
France 33 39 67 61
Germany2 33 36 59 58
Greece 59 62 20 16
Hungary 24 30 71 65
Iceland 54 65 43 32
Ireland2 78 85 15 16
Italy 28 37 65 63
Japan 69 73 27 26
Korea 56 53 36 38
Luxembourg1 26 30 34 33
Mexico1 28 29 4 4
Netherlands1 35 39 56 56
New Zealand1 .. .. .. ..
Norway1 67 82 66 48
Poland1 30 41 69 59
Portugal .. .. .. ..
Slovak Republic .. .. .. ..
Spain 47 53 29 31
Sweden 41 45 33 31
Switzerland1 .. .. .. ..
Turkey1 20 19 19 16
United Kingdom .. .. .. ..
United States .. .. .. ..
Country mean 37 42 43 40
1  Gross graduation rate may include some double counting.
2  Year of reference 1998.
3  Low fiigure due to extension of lower secondary education by one year in 1995.
Source: OECD.

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