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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI	4.39 % of GNI		[72nd of 168]
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Children out of school, primary	306,852		[19th 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: World Development Indicators database
Class size > Age 9	31.9 students		[2nd of 17]
DEFINITION: The average number of children in every class of nine-year-olds.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level	1,714,433		[22nd of 150]
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	4.9%		[58th 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)	17.7%		[34th of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	96		[48th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Geographical aptitude results	60.4		[167th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+	20.9%		[52nd of 138]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone		View time series
Library books	411,000		[58th of 81]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	77 %		[75th 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: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Literacy rate, youth total > % of people ages 15-24	86.33 %		[70th of 123]
DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Primary school girls out of school	7%		[71st of 99]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	22.85 %		[9th 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: Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	19.22		[68th 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 > Male	12 years		[43rd of 97]
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
School life expectancy > Total	11.3 years		[60th 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: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Scientific and technical journal articles	1,806		[36th 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
Students from households with study desk > Age 9	23%		[16th of 16]
DEFINITION: Percentage of nine-year-old students who come from households where there is at least one study desk.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	0.99		[5th of 138]
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002		View time series

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