Data · Education & health
Educational attainment, at least completed upper secondary, population 25+, total (%) (cumulative): Vietnam, 1979–2023
- Latest (2023)
- 39.5 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SE.SEC.CUAT.UP.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed upper secondary education.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1979 to 2023 (16 years of data). It moved from 28.6 to 39.5 %, a change of 38.2%. The highest value was 41.9 in 2022 and the lowest 25.7 in 2009. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 39.5 |
| 2022 | 41.9 |
| 2021 | 36.9 |
| 2020 | 36.2 |
| 2019 | 31.9 |
| 2018 | 30.7 |
| 2017 | 30.3 |
| 2016 | 29.3 |
| 2015 | 28.1 |
| 2014 | 29.0 |
| 2013 | 28.1 |
| 2012 | 27.3 |
| 2011 | 26.6 |
| 2010 | 25.8 |
| 2009 | 25.7 |
| 1979 | 28.6 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2023 | 39.5 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 39.1 |
| Indonesia | 2023 | 39.1 |
| Malaysia | 2022 | 69.8 |
| Philippines | 2022 | 34.5 |
| Singapore | 2022 | 79.0 |
| Cambodia | 2023 | 10.4 |
| Laos | 2023 | 20.6 |
| Myanmar | 2019 | 22.8 |
| China | 2020 | 31.8 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Educational attainment, at least completed upper secondary, population 25+, total (%) (cumulative), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.CUAT.UP.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name se_sec_cuat_up_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.