Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI
4.31 % of GNI
4.39 % 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 75th in 2005.
Ranked 72nd in 2005. 2% more than Germany
Education enrolment by level > Primary level
3,303,737
7,028,924
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 35th in 2002.
Ranked 18th in 2002. 113% more than Germany
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level
2,334,569
1,714,433
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 10th in 2002. 36% more than Iran
Ranked 22nd in 2002.
Education expenditure of government > As percentage of GNI
4.6%
4.7%
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 59th in 2004.
Ranked 57th in 2004. 2% more than Germany
Education expenditure of government > As percentage of total government
9.8%
17.9%
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 69th in 2004.
Ranked 21st in 2004. 83% more than Germany
Education, primary completion rate
94
96
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 57th in 2005.
Ranked 48th in 2005. 2% more than Germany
Education spending (% of GDP)
4.6%
4.9%
DEFINITION:
Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP , 2000-2002)
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 69th.
Ranked 58th. 7% more than Germany
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
9.5%
17.7%
DEFINITION:
Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 88th.
Ranked 34th. 86% more than Germany
Geographical aptitude results
75.494
60.4
DEFINITION:
Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE:
The Geography Zone
Ranked 53rd. 25% more than Iran
Ranked 167th.
Library books
34,687,800
411,000
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 3rd. 83 times more than Iran
Ranked 58th.
Primary school girls out of school
10%
7%
SOURCE:
Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Ranked 62nd. 43% more than Iran
Ranked 71st.
Public spending on education, total > % of GDP
4.7 %
4.8 %
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 61st in 2003.
Ranked 59th in 2003. 1% more than Germany
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure
9.72 %
17.69 %
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 61st in 2003.
Ranked 16th in 2003. 82% more than Germany
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
14.19
20.01
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 122nd in 2004.
Ranked 88th in 2004. 41% more than Germany
School life expectancy > Male
15.5 years
12 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 9th. 29% more than Iran
Ranked 43rd.
School life expectancy > Total
15.3 years
11.3 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 12th. 35% more than Iran
Ranked 60th.
Scientific and technical journal articles
44,305
1,806
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 4th in 2003. 24 times more than Iran
Ranked 36th in 2003.
Unemployment with primary education > % of total unemployment
27 %
38.3 %
DEFINITION:
Unemployment by level of educational attainment shows the unemployed by level of educational attainment, as a percentage of the unemployed. The levels of educational attainment accord with the International Standard Classification of Education 1997 of the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO).
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 47th in 2002.
Ranked 30th in 2002. 42% more than Germany
Unemployment with secondary education > % of total unemployment
60.7 %
37.1 %
DEFINITION:
Unemployment by level of educational attainment shows the unemployed by level of educational attainment, as a percentage of the unemployed. The levels of educational attainment accord with the International Standard Classification of Education 1997 of the United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO).
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 15th in 2002. 64% more than Iran
Ranked 47th in 2002.
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