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  • Average learning outcomes
  • Average learning outcomes vs. GDP per capita
  • Average learning-adjusted years of schooling
  • Average performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in mathematics
  • Average performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in reading
  • Average performance of 15-year-old girls and boys in sciences
  • Average performance of 15-year-olds in mathematics
  • Average performance of 15-year-olds in mathematics, reading, and science
  • Average performance of 15-year-olds in reading
  • Average performance of 15-year-olds in sciences
  • Average years of schooling
  • Average years of schoolingUNDP
  • Average years of schooling for men
  • Average years of schooling for women
  • Average years of schooling vs. GDP per capita
  • Average years of schooling vs. expected years of schooling
  • Children and adolescents out of school
  • Completion rate of lower-secondary education
  • Completion rate of primary education
  • Completion rate of upper-secondary education
  • Duration of compulsory education
  • Duration of pre-primary education
  • Expected years of schooling
  • Expected years of schooling vs. share in extreme poverty
  • Gender gap in primary, secondary and tertiary education
  • Gender parity in net enrolment rates in lower-secondary education
  • Gender parity in net enrolment rates in primary education
  • Gender parity in primary school life expectancy
  • Gender ratio for average years of schooling
  • Girls and boys of primary school age who are out of school
  • Girls and boys who are out of school
  • Girls of primary school age who are out of school, by world region
  • Gross enrolment ratio in pre-primary education
  • Gross enrolment ratio in primary education
  • Gross enrolment ratio in secondary education
  • Gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education
  • Learning adjusted years of schooling
  • Learning adjusted years of schooling in girls and boys
  • Learning outcomes, minimum vs. advanced achievement
  • Literate and illiterate world population
  • Lower-secondary completion rate, adjusted gender parity index
  • National average learning outcomes1985 vs. 2015
  • Net attendance rate of primary school
  • Number of adults with no formal education by region
  • Official entrance age to compulsory education
  • Official entrance age to pre-primary education
  • 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
  • Population having attained at least some formal education
  • Primary completion rate
  • Primary completion rate, adjusted gender parity index
  • Primary, secondary and tertiary education enrolment and completion rates
  • Primary-school-age children who are out of school by world region
  • Projections of share of the population with no formal educationIIASA
  • Proportion of children aged 3-5 years who are developmentally on track
  • Proportion of male vs. female youth and adults with ICT skills in using presentation software
  • Public spending on education as a share of GDP
  • Pupils per qualified teacher in pre-primary education
  • Pupils per qualified teacher in primary education
  • Quality vs. quantity of schooling
  • Scheduled teaching time that teachers are in the classroom
  • Share enrolled in private institutions at the pre-primary education level
  • 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 female
  • Share of adolescents who are not in secondary school
  • Share of children in primary school age who are in school
  • Share of female graduates from science and technology programs in tertiary education
  • Share of population with no formal education
  • Share of primary school teachers who are female
  • Share of primary schools with access to drinking water
  • Share of primary-school-age children who are out of school
  • Share of primary-school-age children who are out of school vs. GDP per capita
  • Share of schools with access to basic drinking water
  • 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 secondary school teachers who are female
  • Share of students achieving advanced learning outcomes
  • Share of students achieving intermediate learning outcomes
  • Share of students achieving minimum learning outcomes
  • Share of students at the end of lower-secondary education achieving minimum math proficiency
  • Share of students at the end of lower-secondary education with minimum reading proficiency
  • Share of students at the end of primary education achieving minimum math proficiency
  • Share of students at the end of primary education achieving minimum reading proficiency
  • Share of students from abroad
  • Share of students in early primary education achieving minimum reading proficiency
  • Share of students studying abroad
  • Share of teachers in primary education who are trained
  • Share of teachers in secondary education who are qualified
  • Share of teachers in secondary education who are trained
  • Share of the population who completed lower-secondary education
  • Share of the population with post-secondary education
  • Share of the population with tertiary education
  • Share of the world's population with formal basic education
  • Share of women with no formal education
  • Total net enrollment rate in primary education
  • Upper-secondary completion rate, adjusted gender parity index
  • World population by level of educationwith projections

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