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Asia > Sri Lanka > Education

SRI LANKAN EDUCATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI 2.55 % of GNI Time series [140th of 168]
Average years of schooling of adults 6.9 [41st of 100]
Children out of school, primary 47,067 Time series [46th of 126]
Duration of compulsory education 9 years [71st of 171]
Duration of education > Primary level 5 [135th of 181]
Duration of education > Secondary level 8 [3rd of 181]
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level 63,660 Time series [62nd of 150]
Education, primary completion rate 97 Time series [19th of 148]
Female enrolment share > Primary level 48.5% [74th of 176]
Female enrolment share > Secondary level 50.8% [36th of 170]
Geographical aptitude results 65.337 [135th of 191]
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+ 7.7% Time series [85th of 138]
Literacy > Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
Literacy > Male 94.8% Time series [65th of 156]
Literacy > Total population 92.3% Time series [72nd of 160]
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above 90.68 % Time series [48th of 121]
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure 8.41 % Time series [95th of 103]
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary 22.5 Time series [73rd of 159]
Tertiary enrollment 5.1% [112nd of 151]
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24 1.01 Time series [5th of 138]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; UNESCO; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; The Geography Zone; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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Suchita Vemuri
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5th March 2005 		About 10% of Sri Lankans speak English, and for about half of these use English as the first language.
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