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What percentage of people have attended college?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Population with tertiary attainment (ISCED 5 and above), age group 25-64 years
Year:	2019
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Population by educational attainment level, sex and age (%) - main indicators [edat_lfse_03] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted May 19th, 2020
Source 2:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2018), CAN (2018), CHL (2018), ISR (2018), JPN (2018), KOR (2018), MEX (2018), NZL (2018), USA (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Educational attainment and labour-force status URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted December 6th, 2019 (year 2018), October 25th, 2018 (2017), June 6th, 2018 (up to 2016)

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	60.75
Minimum:	0
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Tertiary Attainment

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Canada

9.6

57.89

Upper middle group

Japan

8.7

51.93

Israel

8.5

50.92

South Korea

8.3

49.01

USA

8.0

47.43

Ireland

8.0

47.30

Luxembourg

8.0

47.00

Finland

7.8

46.00

Australia

7.8

45.73

Iceland

7.7

45.20

Cyprus

7.6

44.70

7.6

44.70

Switzerland

7.6

44.40

Norway

7.5

44.00

Sweden

7.5

44.00

Lithuania

7.4

43.10

Estonia

7.1

41.40

Belgium

7.0

40.70

Netherlands

7.0

40.40

Denmark

6.9

40.00

New Zealand

6.8

39.29

Spain

6.7

38.60

France

6.6

37.90

Latvia

6.3

35.70

Austria

6.0

33.80

Lower middle group

Slovenia

5.9

33.30

Poland

5.7

32.00

Greece

5.7

31.90

Germany

5.4

29.90

Malta

5.2

28.60

Bulgaria

5.2

28.10

Portugal

4.9

26.30

Hungary

4.9

26.00

Slovakia

4.8

25.80

Croatia

4.7

25.30

Chile

4.7

25.17

Czechia

4.6

24.20

Turkey

4.0

20.50

Italy

3.9

19.60

Romania

3.7

18.40

Mexico

3.7

17.98

Bottom group

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