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Children out of school, primary
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14,161
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[48th of 126]
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Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level
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3,223,431 |
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[1st of 150]
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Education spending (% of GDP)
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4.2% |
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[79th of 132]
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DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002) |
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SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Education spending (% of total government expenditure)
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15.5% |
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[44th of 96]
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DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure. |
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SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme |
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Education, primary completion rate
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101 |
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[1st of 148]
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SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme |
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Geographical aptitude results
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59.809 |
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[174th of 191]
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DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game. |
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SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+
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1.9% |
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[115th of 138]
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SOURCE: The Geography Zone |
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Library books
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2,576,000 |
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[35th of 81]
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SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Mathematical literacy
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547 |
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[2nd of 27]
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DEFINITION: Mathematical literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old 2000 |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure
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14.98 %
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[34th of 103]
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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. |
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SOURCE: OECD |
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Pupil-teacher ratio, primary
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29.02
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[43rd of 159]
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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). |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Reading literacy
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525 |
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[6th of 27]
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DEFINITION: Reading literacy mean value of performance scale (15 years old, 2000) |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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School life expectancy > Male
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15.3 years |
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[10th of 97]
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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. |
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SOURCE: OECD |
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School life expectancy > Total
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14.6 years |
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[21st of 110]
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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. |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Scientific literacy
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552 |
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[1st of 27]
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DEFINITION: Scientific literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old (2000) |
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SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics |
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Universities > Top 100
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1 |
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[21st of 22]
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DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 100 |
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SOURCE: OECD |
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Universities > Top 200
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3 |
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[13th of 31]
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DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 200 |
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SOURCE: The Times, 2005 |
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Universities > Top 500
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8 |
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[13th of 38]
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DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 500 |
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SOURCE: The Times, 2005 |
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Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24
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1 |
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[22nd of 138]
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SOURCE: Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
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Young longtext readers
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14 |
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[23rd of 27]
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DEFINITION: Share of 15-year-olds who are frequent longtext readers(2000) |
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SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics |