Table 3 Percentage of upper secondary graduation rates to total population at typical age of graduation. 1999

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.