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Average years of schooling of adults	5.1		[65th of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	8 years		[116th of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Primary level	6		[96th 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		[164th 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	11,295,041		[3rd of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	4.1%		[82nd 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)	12.7%		[68th of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	90		[71st of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Female enrolment share > Secondary level	39.6%		[152nd of 170]
DEFINITION: Girls' enrolment share, secondary level is the number of girls enrolled in secondary school, expressed as a percentage of the total number of pupils in secondary school.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Geographical aptitude results	77.883		[17th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 13	1,176 hours		[7th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 14 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9	1,051 hours		[5th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	10.74 %		[57th 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 of Statistics
Public spending per student > Primary level	7.2		[107th of 126]
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.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	40.2		[27th 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
Teaching weeks per year > Primary	42 weeks per year		[4th of 36]
DEFINITION: Average number of weeks taught per year by primary level teachers. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Tertiary enrollment	10.5%		[94th 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: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Universities > Top 100	2		[14th of 22]
DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 100
SOURCE: UNESCO
Universities > Top 500	3		[26th of 38]
DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 500
SOURCE: The Times, 2005
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	0.8		[25th of 138]
SOURCE: Shanghai Jiao Tong University		View time series

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