Education in Paraguay - Data for 2006

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Average years of schooling of adults	6.2		[48th of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	9 years		[86th 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		[85th 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		[112nd 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	146,892		[69th of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	4.4%		[74th of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)	11.4%		[77th of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	89		[90th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	46.7%		[93rd 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	73.507		[72nd of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 13	1,011 hours		[16th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 14 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9	753 hours		[25th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	10.75 %		[56th 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 of Statistics
Public spending per student > Primary level	10.9		[86th 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	27.84		[55th 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	10 years		[75th 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	10 years		[75th 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
Teachers as percentage of labor force	3.5%		[27th of 36]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of the total labor force who are classroom, academic staff, and other teachers. Data for 1999.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Teaching weeks per year > Primary	35 weeks per year		[32nd of 36]
DEFINITION: Average number of weeks taught per year by primary level teachers. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Tertiary enrollment	10.1%		[96th 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