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Average years of schooling of adults	6.5		[44th of 100]
Class size > Age 13	23.8 students		[5th of 29]
DEFINITION: The average number of 13-year-old students per class.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Class size > Age 9	19.4 students		[12th 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	9 years		[74th 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	6		[42nd 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		[82nd of 181]
DEFINITION: Duration of secondary education is the number of grades (or years) in general secondary education.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.2%		[54th of 132]
DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)
SOURCE: UNESCO
Education spending (% of total government expenditure)	28.3%		[2nd of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	86		[84th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Geographical aptitude results	76.61		[40th of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9	1,080 hours		[2nd of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	27.53 %		[4th 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	12.5		[75th 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	10.7 years		[65th 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	10.8 years		[65th 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	3.2		[12th 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
Spending per primary school student	$1,048.00 per student		[21st of 21]
DEFINITION: Primary school spending per pupil in 1998, converted into US dollars by purchasing power parity.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Students whose mothers have secondary education > Age 13	9%
DEFINITION: Percentage of 13-year-old students whose mothers have at least secondary education.
SOURCE: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2001)
Teaching weeks per year > Primary	40 weeks per year		[13th of 36]
DEFINITION: Average number of weeks taught per year by primary level teachers. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: "Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World" by Eric A. Hanushek and Javier A. Luque, April 2002
Tertiary enrollment	35.3%		[43rd 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