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Average years of schooling of adults
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8.8 |
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[21st of 100]
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Children out of school, primary
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21,899
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[55th of 126]
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DEFINITION: Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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Duration of compulsory education
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9 years |
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[69th of 171]
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DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Duration of education > Primary level
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6 |
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[30th of 181]
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DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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Duration of education > Secondary level
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6 |
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[73rd of 181]
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DEFINITION: Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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Education spending (% of GDP)
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4% |
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[83rd of 132]
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DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002) |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
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13.8% |
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[54th of 96]
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DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure. |
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SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme |
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Education, primary completion rate
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99 |
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[43rd of 148]
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SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme |
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Enrolment ratio > Secondary level
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79.1% |
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[40th of 135]
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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. |
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SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Geographical aptitude results
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66.702 |
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[125th of 191]
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DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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Hours of instruction for pupils aged 13
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936 hours |
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[20th of 38]
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DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 14 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000. |
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SOURCE: The Geography Zone |
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Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9
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729 hours |
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[31st of 38]
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DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics |
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Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure
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12.02 %
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[47th of 103]
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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. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics |
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Public spending per student > Primary level
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12.5 |
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[74th of 126]
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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. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
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17.34
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[115th of 159]
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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). |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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School life expectancy > Male
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13.6 years |
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[28th of 97]
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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. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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School life expectancy > Total
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14.3 years |
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[24th of 110]
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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. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Teaching weeks per year > Primary
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38 weeks per year |
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[19th of 36]
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DEFINITION: Average number of weeks taught per year by primary level teachers. Data for 2000. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Tertiary enrollment
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48% |
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[28th of 151]
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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. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics |
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Universities > Top 500
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1 |
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[37th of 38]
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DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 500 |
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SOURCE: UNESCO |
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