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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI	3.55 % of GNI		[105th of 168]
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Average years of schooling of adults	4.8		[70th of 100]
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: World Development Indicators database
Children out of school, primary	70,026		[41st 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
Duration of compulsory education	6 years		[159th of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Duration of education > Primary level	6		[98th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Secondary level	5		[165th 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	96,612		[77th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education, primary completion rate	79		[83rd of 148]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Female enrolment share > Primary level	49.6%		[9th of 176]
DEFINITION: Girls' enrolment share, primary level is the number of girls enrolled in primary school, expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in primary school.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Geographical aptitude results	59.724		[175th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Grade 1 intake rate	48.5		[80th of 114]
DEFINITION: Total number of new entrants in first grade of primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population at the official primary school-entrance age
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+	23.2%		[47th of 138]
SOURCE: World Bank		View time series
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	80.01 %		[70th of 121]
DEFINITION: Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.		View time series
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Primary school girls out of school	9%		[64th of 99]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Public spending per student > Tertiary level	59.4		[47th of 123]
DEFINITION: Public expenditure per student, tertiary level is the total reported current spending by the government on tertiary education, divided by the total number of pupils in tertiary education, expressed as a percentage of per capita GDP.
SOURCE: Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	32.9		[40th 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: UNESCO
School life expectancy > Total	8.7 years		[89th 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
Scientific and technical journal articles	11		[128th of 175]
DEFINITION: Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.		View time series
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Tertiary enrollment	14.7%		[84th 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: World Development Indicators database
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	1.05		[2nd of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series

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