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Children out of school, primary	2,868		[94th of 126]
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Duration of compulsory education	10 years		[58th of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Duration of education > Primary level	6		[104th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Secondary level	7		[54th 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	3,077		[122nd of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education, primary completion rate	77		[87th of 148]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	78.3%		[41st 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 > Secondary level	50.4%		[50th 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	77.201		[27th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Library books	800,000		[52nd of 81]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Mathematical literacy	446		[26th of 27]
DEFINITION: Mathematical literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old 2000
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	8.5 %		[74th 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: OECD
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	11.53		[136th 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
Reading literacy	441		[26th of 27]
DEFINITION: Reading literacy mean value of performance scale (15 years old, 2000)
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
School life expectancy > Male	12.9 years		[38th 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: OECD
School life expectancy > Total	13.1 years		[39th 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 literacy	443		[26th of 27]
DEFINITION: Scientific literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old (2000)
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Teachers as percentage of labor force	3.7%		[23rd of 36]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of the total labor force who are classroom, academic staff, and other teachers. Data for 1999.
SOURCE: OECD
Tertiary enrollment	9.3%		[99th 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
Young longtext readers	19.9		[17th of 27]
DEFINITION: Share of 15-year-olds who are frequent longtext readers(2000)
SOURCE: UNESCO

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