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Canada is second on the list, with 61 percent of 25-34 year-olds holding a tertiary qualification. Even so, while the nation has a large share of higher-educated adults, few continue beyond a bachelor’s degree, the OECD statistics show. Third on the list is Japan, which sends a large proportion to higher education, even though fees are high.
The most highly educated country in the report was South Korea, where only 2% of men and women aged 25 to 34 had not completed upper secondary education. But some countries are still a way behind the OECD average, with 50% or more of adults in China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and Mexico not educated to upper secondary level.
New Zealand, in 7th place, and Slovenia in 9th place, are the highest-ranked countries from the East Asia and the Pacific, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions, respectively. New Zealand scores highly on the quality of its education system, while Slovenia performs well on the Capacity pillar, with highly educated older generations.
In some countries the proportion of young adults with a university degree is even higher, at 50% or more including Canada (61%), Ireland (52%), Japan (60%), Korea (70%), Lithuania (55%) and the Russian Federation (60%). Primary and secondary education. On average across OECD countries, only 6% of adults have not gone further than primary school.
Just 1.1% of 25- to 64-year-olds held a doctoral degree on average across OECD countries in 2018, according to the organisation’s Education at a Glance 2019 report. Although, as the chart below shows, the share of the population with a doctoral degree varies significantly across OECD countries, from almost 4% in Slovenia to 0.1% in Indonesia.
But some invest more per primary student, including Chile, Iceland and the UK, even though teachers’ salaries often increase in line with the level of education. The OECD also ranks countries based on the percentage of their total government expenditure on education. Chile tops this list, followed by Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and Switzerland.
The findings reveal that teachers enjoy the highest status in China, where they score a perfect 100. The profession is also held in high regard in Malaysia. But teachers in Japan, which has a score of below 40, are much less respected than their peers in the other Asian economies surveyed. The situation is far worse, however, in Brazil and ...
Best & most respected professions in the world. Doctors topped the global list of most respected professions, followed by lawyers and then engineers. Head teachers also met with approval, but there was less respect for those further down the pedagogical ladder – secondary and primary school teachers lagged behind police officers, nurses ...
The United States comes near the top of the table for higher education and also leads the world in the number of graduates in the Arts and Humanities. Luxembourg, meanwhile, tops the list of countries with the largest share of people in high-skilled employment, followed by Singapore and Switzerland. Russia has more graduates in engineering ...
Image: OECD, Education at a Glance 2018. In 2015, the average total expenditure on education, measured as a proportion of total government spending, was 11% for the OECD nations. The lowest was Greece, at 6%. Only five countries spent more than 15% on education: Brazil, Chile, Mexico and New Zealand were all between approximately 16% and 19%.