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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI	4.63 % of GNI		[47th of 168]
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Average years of schooling of adults	4		[74th 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
Duration of compulsory education	6 years		[145th 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		[41st 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		[80th 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	317,993		[44th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education, primary completion rate	74		[95th of 148]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	33%		[106th 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
Female enrolment share > Primary level	44%		[160th 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: UNESCO
Female enrolment share > Secondary level	37%		[159th 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: UNESCO
Geographical aptitude results	60.12		[171st of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Grade 1 intake rate	74		[41st 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+	59.6%		[6th of 138]
SOURCE: World Bank		View time series
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	74.05 %		[78th 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	26%		[43rd of 99]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	20.53		[64th 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: Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
School life expectancy > Male	10.3 years		[71st 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	9.1 years		[85th 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
Tertiary enrollment	13.6%		[88th 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 for Statistics
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	0.91		[27th of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series

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