Education Resource - Education Statistics

GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2009: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World
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Global trends in tertiary education - 9
Section 1: Changing levels of participation in tertiary education - 10
Section 2: Secondary education graduates and their impact on tertiary education - 17
Section 3: Tertiary-level graduates and fields of education - 22
Section 4: Global trends in student mobility - 35
Section 5: Financing tertiary education - 49

Reader’s guide - 56
Statistical tables - 62
1. Pre-primary education / ISCED 0 / Enrolment and teaching staff - 64
2. Primary education / ISCED 1 / New entrants - 74
3. Primary education / ISCED 1 / Enrolment and teaching staff - 84
4. Primary education / ISCED 1 / Measures of progression and completion - 94
5. Secondary education / ISCED 2 and 3 / Enrolment and repeaters / 2007 - 104
6. Secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education / ISCED 2, 3 and 4 / Teaching staff
and post-secondary non-tertiary enrolment / 2007 - 114
7. Graduation and entry to upper secondary education (ISCED 3) and entry to tertiary
education (ISCED 5) / 2007 (selected countries) - 124
8. Tertiary education / ISCED 5 and 6 / Enrolment, graduation ratio and teaching staff - 128
9. Tertiary education / ISCED 5 and 6 / Internationally mobile students by host country and
region of origin / 2007 (countries with more than 1,000 mobile students) - 138
10. Tertiary education / ISCED 5 and 6 / International flows of mobile students / 2007 - 142
11. Tertiary education / ISCED 5 and 6 / Graduates by broad fields of education / 2007 - 148
12. School life expectancy - 158
13. Public expenditure on education and expenditure on education by nature of spending /
Financial year ending in 2007 - 168
14. Expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP, by sources of funds / Financial year
ending in 2007 - 178
15. Adult and youth literacy / 2005-2007 - 188
16. Educational attainment of the population aged 25 years and older / Latest year available - 194

WEI and UOE countries
17. Primary and secondary education / ISCED 1, 2 and 3 / Distribution of students by type of
institution / 2007 - 204
18. Tertiary education / ISCED 5 and 6 / Distribution of students by type of institution / 2007 - 206
19. Primary and lower secondary education / ISCED 1 and 2 / Average class size by type of
institution / 2007 - 208
20. Intended instruction time (hours per year) for students (9 to 14 years) in public
institutions / 2007 - 210
21. Primary and secondary education / ISCED 1, 2 and 3 / Organization of teachers’ instructional time / 2007 - 210
22. Primary and secondary education / ISCED 1, 2 and 3 / Distribution of teachers by age / 2007 - 212
23. Primary and secondary education / ISCED 1, 2 and 3 / Teachers’ annual salaries in public
institutions (in U.S. dollars PPP) / 2007 - 216
24. Primary and secondary education / ISCED 1, 2 and 3 / Teachers’ annual salaries in public
institutions as a percentage of GDP per capita / 2007 - 218
25. Relative proportions of public and private expenditure on educational institutions / 2007 - 220
26. Distribution of total public expenditure on education by destination of funds / 2007 - 224

Time series data
1. Tertiary education / 1970-2005 226