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Average years of schooling of adults	5.3		[63rd of 100]
Children out of school, primary	532,592		[11th of 126]
DEFINITION: Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.		View time series
SOURCE: UNESCO
Class size > Age 13	30.5 students		[3rd of 29]
DEFINITION: The average number of 13-year-old students per class.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Duration of compulsory education	8 years		[121st of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Duration of education > Primary level	5		[150th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Secondary level	6		[133rd of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level	989,745		[24th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.2%		[52nd of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)	15.6%		[42nd of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	97		[43rd of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	56.5%		[83rd of 135]
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: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Geographical aptitude results	77.164		[28th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Library books	429,238		[57th of 81]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	11.06 %		[38th of 103]
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.		View time series
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	28.54		[44th of 159]
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).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
School life expectancy > Total	10 years		[77th of 110]
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: World Development Indicators database
Students from households with computer > Age 13	11%		[27th of 28]
DEFINITION: Percentage of 13-year-old students who come from households with at least one computer.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Students whose mothers have secondary education > Age 13	30%
DEFINITION: Percentage of 13-year-old students whose mothers have at least secondary education.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Tertiary enrollment	23.3%		[65th of 151]
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: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	1.01		[1st of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series

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