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Average years of schooling of adults	7.6		[32nd of 100]
Duration of compulsory education	10 years		[59th 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		[105th 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		[121st 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	98,520		[81st of 150]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	2.6%		[118th 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)	9.6%		[87th of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	91		[87th of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Enrolment ratio > Secondary level	69.9%		[62nd 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	77.018		[32nd of 191]
DEFINITION: Overall score based upon test results of the Geography Challenge, an online geography quiz game.
SOURCE: UNESCO
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 13	1,011 hours		[15th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 14 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: The Geography Zone
Hours of instruction for pupils aged 9	455 hours		[36th of 38]
DEFINITION: Intended hours of instruction per year for 9 year olds in public educational institutions. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute of Statistics
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	7.86 %		[67th 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	8.2		[101st 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
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	20.83		[84th 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: UNESCO
School life expectancy > Male	13 years		[37th 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: World Development Indicators database
School life expectancy > Total	13.7 years		[30th 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
Teachers as percentage of labor force	4.2%		[15th of 36]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of the total labor force who are classroom, academic staff, and other teachers. Data for 1999.
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Tertiary enrollment	36.1%		[41st 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
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	1.01		[1st of 138]
SOURCE: UNESCO		View time series