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Middle East > Yemen > Education

YEMENI EDUCATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Education enrolment by level > Tertiary level 173,130 Time series [51st of 150]
Education spending (% of GDP) 9.5% [5th of 132]
Education spending (% of total government expenditure) 32.8% [1st of 96]
Education, primary completion rate 62 Time series [123rd of 148]
Geographical aptitude results 57.537 [182nd of 191]
Illiteracy rates by sex, aged 15+ 49.7% Time series [16th of 138]
Literacy > Definition
age 15 and over can read and write
Literacy > Female 30% Time series [151st of 157]
Literacy > Male 70.5% Time series [129th of 156]
Literacy > Total population 50.2% Time series [144th of 160]
Literacy rate, adult total > % of people ages 15 and above 32.68 % Time series [113rd of 121]
Literacy rate, youth total > % of people ages 15-24 49.97 % Time series [110th of 123]
Primary school girls out of school 65% [12th of 99]
Public spending on education, total > % of GDP 9.64 % Time series [5th of 136]
Public spending on education, total > % of government expenditure 32.78 % Time series [1st of 103]
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary 26.13 Time series [59th of 159]
School life expectancy > Male 11.4 years [57th of 97]
School life expectancy > Total 8.5 years [91st of 110]
Scientific and technical journal articles 10 Time series [131st of 175]
Women to men parity index, as ratio of literacy rates, aged 15-24 0.65 Time series [32nd of 138]

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SOURCES: Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; United Nations Human Development Programme; The Geography Zone; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Development Indicators database; Household survey data, net enrolment data from UNESCO, and data from UNICEF country offices; UNESCO Institute for Statistics

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Yemen, Republic of Yemen, Al Jumhuriyah al Yamaniyah, Al Yaman, democratic yemen [former]

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