EDUCATION
SitemapTertiary attainment
What percentage of people
have attended college?
have attended college?
Values reflect 2007 percentage of population, aged 25 to 64, that has attained tertiary education. Source: OECD Education at a Glance 2009.
Tertiary attainment scores
Tertiary attainment scores
EducationTertiary 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.
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Value
Score
| 1 | Canada | 48.3 | 10.00 |
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| 2 | Japan | 41.0 | 8.25 |
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| 2 | New Zealand | 41.0 | 8.25 |
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| 4 | USA | 40.3 | 8.08 |
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| 5 | Finland | 36.4 | 7.14 |
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| 6 | South Korea | 34.6 | 6.71 |
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| 7 | Norway | 34.2 | 6.62 |
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| 8 | Australia | 33.7 | 6.50 |
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| 9 | Denmark | 32.2 | 6.14 |
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| 9 | Ireland | 32.2 | 6.14 |
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| 11 | Belgium | 32.1 | 6.11 |
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| 12 | UK | 31.8 | 6.04 |
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| 13 | Sweden | 31.3 | 5.92 |
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| 13 | Switzerland | 31.3 | 5.92 |
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| 15 | Netherlands | 30.8 | 5.80 |
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| 16 | Iceland | 29.8 | 5.56 |
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| 17 | Spain | 29.0 | 5.37 |
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| 18 | France | 26.8 | 4.84 |
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| 19 | Luxembourg | 26.5 | 4.77 |
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| 20 | Germany | 24.3 | 4.24 |
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| 21 | Greece | 22.7 | 3.86 |
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| 22 | Poland | 18.7 | 2.90 |
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| 23 | Hungary | 17.7 | 2.66 |
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| 24 | Austria | 17.6 | 2.63 |
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| 25 | Mexico | 15.9 | 2.22 |
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| 26 | Slovakia | 14.1 | 1.79 |
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| 27 | Czech Rep. | 13.7 | 1.70 |
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| 27 | Portugal | 13.7 | 1.70 |
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| 29 | Italy | 13.6 | 1.67 |
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| 30 | Chile | 13.2 | 1.58 |
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| 31 | Turkey | 10.8 | 1.00 |
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Key concepts
A strong education system is crucial to establishing future competitiveness, as well as to creating a cohesive and productive society.
This criterion assess the extent to which a government’s education policy facilitates high-quality learning that contributes to personal development, sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. Focus areas include the need to provide a skilled labor force, upper secondary and tertiary attainment levels, and (equitable) access to education.
Research has increasingly shown the value of pre-primary education as well, particularly in helping non-native children to higher levels of attainment later in their educational careers.
Performance comparison
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