NationMaster - American Education statistics

Average years of schooling of adults	12	[1st of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	12 years	[12th of 171]
Duration of education > Primary level	6	[83rd of 181]
Duration of education > Secondary level	6	[109th of 181]
Education spending (% of GDP)	5.7%	[39th of 132]
Educational attainment > Tertiary	37%	[2nd of 18]
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	88.1%	[21st of 135]
Grade 12 advanced students math	442	[15th of 15]
Grade 12 advanced students science	423	[16th of 15]
Literacy > Adults at high literacy level	19%	[9th of 17]
Literacy > Total population	99%	[20th of 160]
Mathematical literacy	493	[18th of 27]
Primary teacher salary > Starting	$25,707.00	[5th of 22]
Reading literacy	504	[15th of 27]
School life expectancy > Male	14.8 years	[16th of 97]
School life expectancy > Total	15.2 years	[14th of 110]
Scientific literacy	499	[14th of 27]
Student attitude > Dislike of school	35%	[5th of 17]
Student attitude > Find school boring	61%	[2nd of 17]
Tertiary enrollment	72.6%	[1st of 151]

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SOURCES: UNESCO; United Nations Human Development Programme; OECD Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2003; TIMSS; OECD; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD; UNESCO Institute of Statistics; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; OECD

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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Kim 23rd September 2009	There should be a data checker for this information and it should be updated more frequently, alot of this information is nearly a decade old!
mary 15th November 2005	i think you should have charts of the literacy rate in the united states

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