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Average years of schooling of adults	7.1		[37th of 100]
Class size > Age 13	21.3 students		[10th of 29]
DEFINITION: The average number of 13-year-old students per class.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Class size > Age 9	21.9 students		[8th of 17]
DEFINITION: The average number of children in every class of nine-year-olds.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Duration of compulsory education	7 years		[132nd of 171]
DEFINITION: Duration of compulsory education is the number of grades (or years) that a child must legally be enrolled in school.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Duration of education > Primary level	4		[168th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of primary education is the number of grades (or years) in primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Duration of education > Secondary level	8		[12th of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education spending (% of GDP)	6.1%		[29th of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education, primary completion rate	102		[20th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	88.6%		[16th 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	75.008		[59th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Grade 12 advanced students math	475		[11th of 15]
DEFINITION: Results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) involving a half-million students in 41 countries.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Grade 12 advanced students science	523		[4th of 15]
DEFINITION: Results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) involving a half-million students in 41 countries.
SOURCE: TIMSS
Library books	1,360,340		[44th of 81]
SOURCE: TIMSS
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	12.56 %		[44th 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 for Statistics
Public spending per student > Primary level	20.6		[26th 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
School life expectancy > Male	13.6 years		[30th 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: UNESCO
School life expectancy > Total	14.1 years		[28th 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
Spending on teaching materials	4.2		[10th of 30]
DEFINITION: Public expenditure on teaching materials, primary level is the amount spent on teaching materials expressed as a percentage of total public current spending on primary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Students whose mothers have secondary education > Age 13	60%
DEFINITION: Percentage of 13-year-old students whose mothers have at least secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Tertiary enrollment	60.5%		[9th 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: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002