Average years of schooling of adults
9.4
12
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 16th.
Ranked 1st. 28% more than United Kingdom
Duration of compulsory education
12 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 9th.
Ranked 12th.
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 50th.
Ranked 83rd.
Duration of education > Secondary level
7
6
DEFINITION:
Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education .
SOURCE:
UNESCO
Ranked 27th. 17% more than United States
Ranked 109th.
Educational attainment > Senior secondary
37%
50%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of adult population (aged 25-64) educated till senior secondary level (year 2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2003
Ranked 13th.
Ranked 6th. 35% more than United Kingdom
Educational attainment > Tertiary
26%
37%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of adult population (aged 25-64) educated till tertiary level (year 2000).
SOURCE:
OECD Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2003
Ranked 12th.
Ranked 2nd. 42% more than United Kingdom
Education spending (% of GDP)
5.3%
5.7%
DEFINITION:
Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP , 2000-2002)
SOURCE:
United Nations Human Development Programme
Ranked 47th.
Ranked 39th. 8% more than United Kingdom
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level
93.7%
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 6th. 6% more than United States
Ranked 21st.
Literacy > Adults at high literacy level
19.1%
19%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of adults whose level of document literacy is rated 'high'. Data for 1998.
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 8th. 1% more than United States
Ranked 9th.
Literacy > Adults at low literacy level
50.4%
49.6%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of adults whose level of document literacy is rated 'low'. Data for 1998
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 6th. 2% more than United States
Ranked 7th.
Mathematical literacy
529
493
DEFINITION:
Mathematical literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old 2000
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 8th. 7% more than United States
Ranked 18th.
Reading literacy
523
504
DEFINITION:
Reading literacy mean value of performance scale (15 years old, 2000)
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 7th. 4% more than United States
Ranked 15th.
School life expectancy > Male
16 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 5th. 8% more than United States
Ranked 16th.
School life expectancy > Total
16.4 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 4th. 8% more than United States
Ranked 14th.
Scientific literacy
532
499
DEFINITION:
Scientific literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old (2000)
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 4th. 7% more than United States
Ranked 14th.
Student attitude > Find school boring
54%
61%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of students who do find school boring (2000).
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 10th.
Ranked 2nd. 13% more than United Kingdom
Student attitude > Report class disorder
27%
28%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of students who report high noise level and disorder in classes (2000).
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 12th.
Ranked 11th. 4% more than United Kingdom
Student attitude > Dislike of school
28%
35%
DEFINITION:
Percentage of schoolgoing children who do not like going to school (2000).
SOURCE:
OECD
Ranked 11th.
Ranked 5th. 25% more than United Kingdom
Tertiary enrollment
59.5%
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 11th.
Ranked 1st. 22% more than United Kingdom
Universities > Top 10
2
7
DEFINITION:
Number of universities in the top 10
SOURCE:
The Times, 2005
Ranked 2nd.
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than United Kingdom
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