Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI
4.15 % of GNI
4.79 % of GNI
DEFINITION:
Education expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 81st in 2005.
Ranked 59th in 2005. 15% more than Croatia
Children out of school, primary
14,129
1,324,215
DEFINITION:
Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 64th in 2003.
Ranked 4th in 2003. 93 times more than Croatia
Duration of compulsory education
8 years
12 years
DEFINITION:
Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 107th.
Ranked 12th. 50% more than Croatia
Duration of education > Primary level
4
6
DEFINITION:
Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 155th.
Ranked 83rd. 50% more than Croatia
Duration of education > Secondary level
8
6
DEFINITION:
Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 4th. 33% more than United States
Ranked 109th.
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level
121,722
16,611,711
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 72nd in 2002.
Ranked 1st in 2002. 135 times more than Croatia
Education expenditure of government > As percentage of total government
10%
15.2%
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 58th in 2003.
Ranked 29th in 2003. 52% more than Croatia
Education spending (% of GDP)
4.5%
5.7%
DEFINITION:
Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP , 2000-2002)
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 71st.
Ranked 39th. 27% more than Croatia
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
10%
17.1%
DEFINITION:
Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 85th.
Ranked 38th. 71% more than Croatia
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level
66%
88.1%
DEFINITION:
Net enrolment ratio, secondary level, is the ratio of the number of children of official secondary school age enrolled in school to the number of children of official secondary school age in the population .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 70th.
Ranked 21st. 33% more than Croatia
Female enrolment share > Primary level
48.5%
48.7%
DEFINITION:
Girls' enrolment share, primary level is the number of girls enrolled in primary school, expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in primary school.
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 75th.
Ranked 50th.
Female enrolment share > Secondary level
49.7%
49%
DEFINITION:
Girls' enrolment share, secondary level is the number of girls enrolled in secondary school, expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in secondary school.
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 66th. 1% more than United States
Ranked 92nd.
Geographical aptitude results
78.391
70.069
DEFINITION:
Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE:
The Geography Zone
Ranked 2nd. 12% more than United States
Ranked 96th.
Primary school girls out of school
20%
0%
SOURCE:
Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Ranked 48th.
Ranked 96th.
Public spending on education, total > % of GDP
4.7 %
5.9 %
DEFINITION:
Public expenditure on education consists of current and capital public expenditure on education plus subsidies to private education at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 63rd in 2003.
Ranked 34th in 2003. 26% more than Croatia
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
15.1
14.21
DEFINITION:
Primary school pupil-teacher ratio is the number of pupils enrolled in primary school divided by the number of primary school teachers (regardless of their teaching assignment).
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 117th in 2004. 6% more than United States
Ranked 121st in 2004.
School life expectancy > Male
11.3 years
14.8 years
DEFINITION:
School life expectancy and transition from primary to secondary for school years 1998/99 and 1999/00, published in http://www.uis.unesco.org accessed on Sept. 2002 and Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), Version 4, CD-ROM (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.XVII.4) based on data provided by UNESCO in 1999.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 59th.
Ranked 16th. 31% more than Croatia
School life expectancy > Total
11.4 years
15.2 years
DEFINITION:
School life expectancy and transition from primary to secondary for school years 1998/99 and 1999/00, published in http://www.uis.unesco.org accessed on Sept. 2002 and Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), Version 4, CD-ROM (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.XVII.4) based on data provided by UNESCO in 1999.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 58th.
Ranked 14th. 33% more than Croatia
Scientific and technical journal articles
845
211,233
DEFINITION:
Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 44th in 2003.
Ranked 1st in 2003. 249 times more than Croatia
Tertiary enrollment
28.3%
72.6%
DEFINITION:
Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary level is the sum of all tertiary level students enrolled at the start of the school year, expressed as a percentage of the mid-year population in the 5 year age group after the official secondary school leaving age.
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 56th.
Ranked 1st. 157% more than Croatia
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