Duration of compulsory education
The number of years that children are legally obliged to attend school.
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- Average OECD non-tertiary education expenditure by source of funding
- Average learning outcomes vs. GDP per capita
- Average years of schooling
- Average years of schooling for men
- Average years of schooling for women
- Child mortality vs. women's average years of schooling
- Children in school: administrative vs. household survey data
- Children out of school
- Cumulative drop-out rate to the last grade of lower secondary general education
- Electoral democracy today vs. past average years of schooling
- Existence of nationally representative learning assessment at the end of primary education
- Expected years of schooling
- Gender ratio for average years of schooling
- Girls of primary school age who are out-of-school, by world region
- Gross enrollment ratio in primary education
- Gross enrollment ratio in secondary education
- Learning outcomes, minimum vs. advanced achievement
- Literate and illiterate world population
- National average learning outcomesAltinok, Angrist, Patrinos (2018)
- Net attendance rate of primary school
- Number of adults with no education by region
- Official entrance age to compulsory education
- Participation time in study per day
- Population aged 15+ by highest level of education achieved
- Primary, and secondary education enrollment & completion rates
- Primary, secondary and tertiary education enrollment & completion rates
- Primary-school-age children who are out of school by world region
- Public education expenditure as share of GDP
- Public spending on education as a share of GDP
- Share of population, 15 years and older, with no education
- Share of students achieving advanced learning outcomes
- Share of students achieving intermediate learning outcomes
- Share of students achieving minimum learning outcomes
- Share of the population with a completed post-secondary education
- Share of the population with at least some secondary education
- Share of the population with no formal education, projections by IIASA
- Share of the population with secondary education, but no tertiary education
- Share of the world's population with formal basic education
- The share of children in primary school age who are in school
- Time spent in study per day