Year Proportion of people with minimum seconday education degree within the 20–24 year-old population, % Of which:
male female
2000 83.5 83.0 84.0
2001 84.7 84.5 85.0
2002 85.9 85.5 86.3
2003 84.7 83.4 86.1
2004 83.5 82.0 84.9
2005 83.4 81.9 84.9
2006 82.9 81.1 84.8
2007 83.7 82.3 85.2
2008 83.5 81.8 85.3
2009 83.6 81.8 85.4
2010 83.5 81.8 85.2
2011 82.7 81.5 84.0
2012 83.2 81.8 84.7
2013 84.2 83.0 85.4
2014 85.3 83.3 87.3
2015 84.2 83.3 85.2
2016 83.5 82.9 84.1
2017 84.3 84.2 84.5
2018 84.9 84.5 85.4
2019 86.4 85.7 87.2
2020 85.7 84.4 87.0
2021 84.3 83.3 85.4
2022 83.7 82.3 85.2
2023 85.2 83.2 87.4

Footnotes

*Source: Labour Force Survey, HCSO.
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