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Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level	173,130		[51st of 150]
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Education expenditure of government > As percentage of GNI	10.3%		[1st of 127]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Education expenditure of government > As percentage of total government	32.8%		[1st of 85]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Education spending (% of GDP)	9.5%		[5th 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)	32.8%		[1st of 96]
DEFINITION: Public educational expenditure as a percent of overall government expenditure.
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme
Education, primary completion rate	62		[123rd of 148]
SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme		View time series
Geographical aptitude results	57.537		[182nd 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
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+	49.7%		[16th of 138]
SOURCE: The Geography Zone		View time series
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+ > Women	69.8%		[8th of 138]
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics		View time series
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above	32.68 %		[113rd of 121]
DEFINITION: Adult literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15 and above who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.		View time series
SOURCE: Source: UNESCO UIS Data \| UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Literacy rate, youth female > % of females ages 15-24	25.05 %		[120th of 123]
DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Literacy rate, youth total > % of people ages 15-24	49.97 %		[110th of 123]
DEFINITION: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can, with understanding, read and write a short, simple statement on their everyday life.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Primary school girls out of school	65%		[12th of 99]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Public spending on education, total > % of GDP	9.64 %		[5th of 136]
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: Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure	32.78 %		[1st 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: World Development Indicators database
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary	26.13		[59th 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: World Development Indicators database
School life expectancy > Male	11.4 years		[57th 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	8.5 years		[91st 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 and technical journal articles	10		[131st of 175]
DEFINITION: Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.		View time series
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24	0.65		[32nd of 138]
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database		View time series