Average years of schooling of adults
6.2
6.8
DEFINITION:
Average years of schooling of adults is the years of formal schooling received, on average, by adults over age 15. (Data Source: Barro-Lee Data Set www.worldbank.org/html/prdmg/grthweb/ddbarle2.htm )
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 49th.
Ranked 42nd. 10% more than Guyana
Duration of compulsory education
10 years
9 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 38th. 11% more than Malaysia
Ranked 104th.
Duration of education > Primary level
6
6
DEFINITION:
Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 55th.
Ranked 129th.
Duration of education > Secondary level
5
5
DEFINITION:
Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 151st.
Ranked 178th.
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level
4,848
632,309
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 119th in 2002.
Ranked 33rd in 2002. 129 times more than Guyana
Education, primary completion rate
96
91
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 59th in 2003. 5% more than Malaysia
Ranked 84th in 2003.
Education spending (% of GDP)
8.4%
8.1%
DEFINITION:
Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP , 2000-2002)
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 9th. 4% more than Malaysia
Ranked 10th.
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
18.4%
20.3%
DEFINITION:
Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 28th.
Ranked 19th. 10% more than Guyana
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level
65.7%
70.2%
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 71st.
Ranked 60th. 7% more than Guyana
Female enrolment share > Primary level
48.6%
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 61st.
Ranked 55th.
Female enrolment share > Secondary level
51.4%
51.2%
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 26th.
Ranked 32nd.
Geographical aptitude results
77.067
76.266
DEFINITION:
Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE:
The Geography Zone
Ranked 31st. 1% more than Malaysia
Ranked 42nd.
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+
1.2%
11.1%
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 124th in 2003.
Ranked 78th in 2003. 8 times more than Guyana
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure
18.39 %
20.3 %
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 22nd in 2002.
Ranked 13th in 2002. 10% more than Guyana
Public spending per student > Primary level
1
11.2
DEFINITION:
Public expenditure per student, primary level is the total reported current spending by the government on primary education , divided by the total number of pupils in primary education , expressed as a percentage of per capita GDP .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 126th.
Ranked 84th. 10 times more than Guyana
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
26.55
17.51
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 59th in 2003. 52% more than Malaysia
Ranked 112nd in 2003.
School life expectancy > Male
9.8 years
11.2 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 76th.
Ranked 62nd. 14% more than Guyana
School life expectancy > Total
9.9 years
11.5 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 79th.
Ranked 57th. 16% more than Guyana
Tertiary enrollment
9.7%
28.2%
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 97th.
Ranked 57th. 191% more than Guyana
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24
1
0.97
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 23rd in 1984. 3% more than Malaysia
Ranked 68th in 1984.
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