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Adjusted savings: education expenditure > % of GNI	1.63 % of GNI		[154th of 168]
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Average years of schooling of adults	3.9		[75th of 100]
DEFINITION: Average years of schooling of adults is the years of formal schooling received, on average, by adults over age 15. (Data Source: Barro-Lee Data Set www.worldbank.org/html/prdmg/grthweb/ddbarle2.htm)
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Children out of school, primary	6,303,212		[1st 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: UNESCO
Duration of compulsory education	5 years		[169th 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	5		[143rd 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		[38th 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	401,056		[41st of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	1.8%		[127th 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)	7.8%		[93rd of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	63		[100th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Female enrolment share > Primary level	35.9%		[176th 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: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Female enrolment share > Secondary level	39.5%		[153rd 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	69.666		[99th 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+	54.3%		[13th of 138]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone		View time series
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	49.85 %		[103rd 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
Primary school girls out of school	55%		[16th of 99]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	10.94 %		[40th 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: Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	38.34		[28th 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
Scientific and technical journal articles	368		[54th of 175]
DEFINITION: Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	0.69		[8th of 138]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database		View time series

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