This database contains enrolment ratios, expenditure on education (private and public), drop-out rates, education inputs, completion rates, share of students by subject by education level, entry age, gender parity index for education plus many more variables for the period 1970-2006 by country. Data coverage varies across countries and over time.

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Education Statistics by Country (UNESCO-UIS)

• Enrolment

• Enrolment by ISCED level

• Enrolment of pupils of official age by grade

• Enrolment by grade in primary education

• Repeaters by grade in primary education

• Enrolment by grade in general secondary education

• Repeaters by grade in general secondary education

• Teaching staff by ISCED level

• Enrolment ratios by ISCED level

• Intake rates to primary education

• Measures of children out of school

• School life expectancy (approximation method)

• Repetition rates and percentage of repeaters in primary education

• Percentage of repeaters in general secondary education

• Indicators on teaching staff

• Measures of progression and completion in primary education

• Upper secondary graduation and entry to tertiary education 2005

• Tertiary Indicators

• Enrolments by broad field of education in tertiary education

• Graduates by broad field of education in tertiary education

• Internationally mobile students in tertiary education

• International flows of mobile students at the tertiary level

• Finance Indicators by ISCED level

• Literacy levels

Educational Attainment by Country & Schooling Level (Barro & Lee 2000)

• Educational Attainment of the Total Population Aged 15+

• Educational Attainment of the Female Population Aged 15+

• Educational Attainment of the Total Population Aged 25+

• Educational Attainment of the Female Population Aged 25+