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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of literates in the age group 15–24. UNESCO updates this data every year. The table below contains the data published for the year 2015 by UNESCO . [1] * indicates "Literacy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Education in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
In an international perspective, teenage suicide rates are close to the OECD average and below those of the United States. [67] A survey by the Education Ministry showed that students at public schools were involved in a record number of violent incidents in 2007: 52,756 cases, an increase of some 8,000 on the previous year. In almost 7,000 of ...
A country's education index is calculated with the following formula: [1] = +, expected years of schooling, is a calculation of the number of years a student is expected to attend school, or university.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income indices "HDI" redirects here. For other uses, see HDI (disambiguation). For the complete ranking of countries, see List of countries by Human Development Index. World map of countries and territories by HDI scores in ...
Despite nearly 70% of Japan being covered by forests, [22] parks in many major cities—especially Tokyo and Osaka—are smaller and scarcer than in major West European or North American cities. As of 2014, parkland per inhabitant in Tokyo is 5.78 square meters, [23] which is roughly half of the 11.5 square meters of Madrid. [24]
By the 1860s, 40–50% of Japanese boys, and 15% of the girls, had some schooling outside the home. These rates were comparable to major European nations at the time (apart from Germany, which had compulsory schooling). [citation needed]
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...