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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI	4.4 % of GNI		[70th of 168]
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Children out of school, primary	1,798		[101st 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
Duration of compulsory education	11 years		[31st 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		[113rd 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		[59th 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	8,946		[114th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education, primary completion rate	100		[39th of 148]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	79.2%		[39th 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	48.6%		[71st 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	48.7%		[102nd 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	73.863		[68th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+	7.2%		[89th of 138]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone		View time series
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	87.87 %		[57th 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
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	10.09 %		[68th 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: World Development Indicators database
Public spending per student > Primary level	12.5		[76th 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	18.78		[93rd 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	13.5 years		[31st 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	13.4 years		[36th 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	21.5%		[71st 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	1.04		[1st of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series