Average years of schooling of adults
6.8
6.5
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 42nd. 5% more than Thailand
Ranked 44th.
Duration of compulsory education
9 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 104th.
Ranked 74th.
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 129th.
Ranked 42nd.
Duration of education > Secondary level
5
6
DEFINITION:
Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 178th.
Ranked 82nd. 20% more than Malaysia
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level
632,309
2,205,581
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 33rd in 2002.
Ranked 14th in 2002. 2 times more than Malaysia
Education, primary completion rate
103
86
SOURCE:
Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Ranked 17th in 1999. 20% more than Thailand
Ranked 84th in 1999.
Education spending (% of GDP)
8.1%
5.2%
DEFINITION:
Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP , 2000-2002)
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 10th. 56% more than Thailand
Ranked 54th.
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
20.3%
28.3%
DEFINITION:
Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 19th.
Ranked 2nd. 39% more than Malaysia
Geographical aptitude results
76.266
76.61
DEFINITION:
Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE:
The Geography Zone
Ranked 42nd.
Ranked 40th.
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 13
1,230 hours
1,167 hours
DEFINITION:
Intended hours of instruction per year for 14 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Ranked 6th. 5% more than Thailand
Ranked 8th.
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9
964 hours
1,080 hours
DEFINITION:
Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Ranked 11th.
Ranked 2nd. 12% more than Malaysia
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure
19.99 %
28.3 %
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 18th in 2001.
Ranked 1st in 2001. 42% more than Malaysia
Public spending per student > Primary level
11.2
12.5
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 84th.
Ranked 75th. 12% more than Malaysia
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
17.51
20.68
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 112nd in 2003.
Ranked 86th in 2003. 18% more than Malaysia
School life expectancy > Male
11.2 years
10.7 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 62nd. 5% more than Thailand
Ranked 65th.
School life expectancy > Total
11.5 years
10.8 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 57th. 6% more than Thailand
Ranked 65th.
Spending on teaching materials
13.6
3.2
DEFINITION:
Public expenditure on teaching materials, primary level is the amount spent on teaching materials expressed as a percentage of total public current spending on primary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than Thailand
Ranked 12th.
Teachers as percentage of labor force
4.2%
3%
DEFINITION:
The percentage share of the total labor force who are classroom, academic staff, and other teachers. Data for 1999.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Ranked 17th. 40% more than Thailand
Ranked 31st.
Teaching weeks per year > Primary
41 weeks per year
40 weeks per year
DEFINITION:
Average number of weeks taught per year by primary level teachers. Data for 2000.
SOURCE:
UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Ranked 7th. 2% more than Thailand
Ranked 13th.
Tertiary enrollment
28.2%
35.3%
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 57th.
Ranked 43rd. 25% more than Malaysia
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