Share of the population with post-secondary education, 1970 to 2020
Percentage of the population aged 25 and over who have completed post-secondary education.
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- Completion rate of primary education
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- Duration of compulsory education
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- Gross enrolment ratio in secondary education
- Gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education
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- Lower-secondary school completion rates, adjusted gender parity index
- Net attendance rate of primary school
- Net enrollment rates in lower-secondary education, adjusted gender parity index
- Net enrollment rates in primary education, adjusted gender parity index
- Number of adults with no formal education by region
- Numeracy rate in men
- Numeracy rate in women
- Official entrance age to compulsory education
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education
- Participation rate in formal and non-formal education and training
- Percentage of primary schools with toilets
- Percentage of teachers in lower-secondary education who are qualified
- Percentage of teachers in pre-primary education who are qualified
- Percentage of teachers in primary education who are qualified
- Percentage of teachers in upper-secondary education who are qualified
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- Primary school completion rates, adjusted gender parity index
- Primary school life expectancy, adjusted gender parity index
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- Share enrolled in private institutions at the primary education level
- Share of 15-year-olds in the highest mathematics score level, girls vs. boys
- Share of academic staff in tertiary education who are women
- Share of adolescents who are not in secondary school
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- Share of schools with access to electricity
- Share of schools with access to computers for teaching
- Share of schools with access to single-sex basic sanitation
- Share of schools with adaptations for disabled students
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- Share of students achieving minimum math proficiency by the end of lower-secondary education
- Share of students achieving minimum math proficiency by the end of primary education
- Share of students achieving minimum math proficiency in early primary education
- Share of students achieving minimum proficiency in reading and math at each education level
- Share of students achieving minimum reading proficiency by the end of lower-secondary education
- Share of students achieving minimum reading proficiency by the end of primary education
- Share of students achieving minimum reading proficiency in early primary education
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- Share of teachers in secondary education who are qualified
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- Share of the world's population with formal basic education
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- Total net enrollment rate in primary education
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