Values reflect 2007 percentage of foreign-born population, aged 15 years or more, with upper secondary education (ISCED levels 3 or 4). Source: OECD A Profile of Immigrant Populations in the 21st Century 2008.

Foreign-born secondary attainment scores

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Foreign-born secondary attainment

To ensure comparability, observed values are transformed into SGI scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The lowest value translates into score 1, the best value into score 10. Remaining values are transformed according to the original data distribution.

Value

Score

1	Slovakia	55.0	10.00
2	Norway	51.2	8.94
3	New Zealand	50.4	8.72
4	Czech Rep.	48.7	8.25
5	Sweden	46.2	7.56
6	Japan	44.2	7.00
7	Luxembourg	41.6	6.28
8	Greece	41.4	6.22
9	Poland	40.3	5.92
10	Austria	39.3	5.64
10	Germany	39.3	5.64
12	Denmark	39.2	5.61
13	Hungary	39.1	5.58
14	Chile	36.2	4.78
14	Iceland	36.2	4.78
14	South Korea	36.2	4.78
17	Switzerland	34.7	4.36
17	USA	34.7	4.36
19	Italy	33.5	4.03
20	Australia	32.8	3.83
21	Canada	31.9	3.58
22	Netherlands	31.6	3.50
23	Turkey	31.2	3.39
24	Ireland	29.3	2.86
25	Finland	28.5	2.64
26	France	27.2	2.28
27	Mexico	26.2	2.00
28	Portugal	25.9	1.92
29	UK	24.5	1.53
30	Belgium	23.8	1.33
31	Spain	22.6	1.00

Key concepts

Globalization has led to growing communities of immigrants even in traditionally homogeneous societies, many of which play a vital economic role in their adopted homes. Both the immigrants themselves and the broader communities benefit if these populations can be smoothly integrated into the surrounding society.

Integration-related policies comprise a wide array of cultural, educational and social policies which directly or indirectly affect the status of immigrant communities. The objective of integration is not forced assimilation, but does favor the acquisition of nationality.

Examining employment rates as well as educational attainment levels allows a broad, often multi-generational assessment of integration progress to be made.

Performance comparison

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