% of cohort - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's year 12 completion rate was 84.9% as of January 2025. Proportion of young people who complete Year 12 (or equivalent) secondary schooling. Year 12 completion is strongly associated with better employment, health, and social outcomes. Data is sourced from Source retired — the ABS Survey of Education and Work ceased; May 2025 was the final release. Historical data only. and updated annually.
Proportion of young people who complete Year 12 (or equivalent) secondary schooling.
Year 12 completion is strongly associated with better employment, health, and social outcomes.
Higher is better
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (Source retired — the ABS Survey of Education and Work ceased; May 2025 was the final release. Historical data only.), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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