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Average years of schooling of adults	9.8	[10th of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	9 years	[77th 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	[54th 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	[89th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.6%	[41st of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)	12.8%	[63rd of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	90.9%	[11th 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: United Nations Human Development Programme
Expected duration of education for all students	16.3 years	[19th of 30]
DEFINITION: Expected years of schooling for a 5-year-old under current conditions, excluding education for children under 5. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Geographical aptitude results	72.13	[80th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Library books	2,730,670	[31st of 81]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Literacy > Adults at high literacy level	5.8%	[16th of 17]
DEFINITION: Percentage of adults whose level of document literacy is rated 'high'. Data for 1998.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Literacy > Adults at low literacy level	76.1%	[2nd of 17]
DEFINITION: Percentage of adults whose level of document literacy is rated 'low'. Data for 1998
SOURCE: OECD
Mathematical literacy	470	[22nd of 27]
DEFINITION: Mathematical literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old 2000
SOURCE: OECD
Public spending per student > Primary level	26.5	[10th 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: OECD
Reading literacy	479	[23rd of 27]
DEFINITION: Reading literacy mean value of performance scale (15 years old, 2000)
SOURCE: UNESCO
School life expectancy > Male	14 years	[26th 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	14.4 years	[23rd 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	483	[21st of 27]
DEFINITION: Scientific literacy mean value of performance scale 15 years old (2000)
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Tertiary enrollment	55.5%	[18th 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: OECD
Universities > Top 500	3	[27th of 38]
DEFINITION: Number of universities in the top 500
SOURCE: UNESCO