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Children out of school, primary	13,512		[70th of 126]
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Class size > Age 13	15.4 students		[22nd of 29]
DEFINITION: The average number of 13-year-old students per class.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Duration of compulsory education	9 years		[97th of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Duration of education > Primary level	4		[177th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Secondary level	8		[17th 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	167,606		[64th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.9%		[33rd of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education, primary completion rate	98		[50th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	88.6%		[17th 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
Geographical aptitude results	77.371		[23rd of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Grade 12 advanced students math	516		[6th of 15]
DEFINITION: Results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) involving a half-million students in 41 countries.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Library books	5,760,990		[16th of 81]
SOURCE: TIMSS
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	15.66 %		[28th 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 for Statistics
Public spending per student > Primary level	61.4		[1st 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	14.72		[119th 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 > Male	11.6 years		[54th 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	11.6 years		[52nd 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
Students whose mothers have secondary education > Age 13	49%
DEFINITION: Percentage of 13-year-old students whose mothers have at least secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Tertiary enrollment	52.5%		[22nd 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: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	1		[8th of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series

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