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Table A-25-2. Percentage of the population 25 to 64 years old who attained selected levels of education, by age group and country: 2008

Country	High school					Bachelor's degree or higher
	Total, 25 to 64 years old	25 to 34 years old	35 to 44 years old	45 to 54 years old	55 to 64 years old	Total, 25 to 64 years old	25 to 34 years old	35 to 44 years old	45 to 54 years old	55 to 64 years old


OECD countries
OECD average	72.4	80.8	76.1	69.3	59.9	20.8	26.6	21.9	18.2	15.5
Australia	69.9	82.5	72.6	66.0	55.5	25.9	32.2	27.4	23.4	18.9
Austria	81.0	87.7	84.8	79.0	70.5	10.7	13.5	11.7	9.2	7.9
Belgium	69.6	83.1	77.2	64.4	52.1	16.4	22.8	18.2	13.8	10.5
Canada	87.1	91.9	90.2	85.6	79.6	25.2	29.8	28.5	21.1	21.1
Chile	68.0	84.5	74.2	65.5	39.3	15.7	22.3	13.6	13.1	13.9

Czech Republic	90.9	94.2	93.9	89.7	85.1	14.5	17.7	14.4	14.8	10.6
Denmark	77.6	86.1	81.9	73.6	69.1	27.5	34.9	29.3	24.9	21.0
Estonia	88.5	85.1	93.2	91.9	82.8	22.3	23.5	22.5	22.3	20.6
Finland	81.1	90.1	87.8	82.3	65.9	21.5	32.9	24.0	17.3	13.6
France	70.0	82.9	76.7	64.3	55.0	16.4	23.7	18.2	11.6	11.8

Germany	85.3	85.8	86.9	85.8	82.2	16.4	17.5	17.3	15.9	15.0
Greece	61.1	74.8	68.8	56.4	39.2	16.8	18.6	18.6	16.3	12.7
Hungary	79.7	85.6	82.8	78.4	70.5	18.7	22.9	18.6	16.6	16.0
Iceland	64.1	69.0	68.3	60.9	55.8	27.9	30.6	32.1	26.0	21.0
Ireland	69.5	84.7	74.5	61.9	44.7	22.2	30.6	23.4	17.2	12.1

Israel	81.2	87.5	83.6	77.0	72.3	28.8	28.9	30.1	28.2	27.6
Italy	53.3	68.9	57.1	49.4	35.2	14.0	19.6	14.6	11.5	9.5
Japan	—	—	—	—	—	24.3	30.9	25.8	25.3	16.0
Korea	79.1	97.6	93.3	68.1	40.4	25.6	34.5	31.7	18.9	10.5
Luxembourg	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡

Mexico	33.6	39.8	36.3	30.2	19.1	14.9	18.5	14.6	14.0	8.9
Netherlands	73.3	82.4	77.3	71.3	62.2	29.8	37.5	29.7	28.1	24.4
New Zealand	72.1	79.5	74.3	70.5	62.1	25.1	33.6	25.9	21.9	18.2
Norway	80.7	84.0	81.9	78.4	78.3	33.6	43.8	36.3	28.7	25.3
Poland	87.1	92.8	90.9	87.0	76.0	19.6	32.1	18.8	13.0	12.0

Portugal	28.2	46.7	28.7	20.0	13.5	14.3	23.2	14.5	9.9	7.7
Slovak Republic	89.9	94.5	93.3	88.4	80.9	14.0	17.8	13.1	13.4	9.9
Slovenia	82.0	92.4	84.8	77.9	71.5	11.8	18.4	12.3	9.0	6.9
Spain	51.2	65.0	56.7	45.0	29.1	20.0	25.7	21.9	17.2	11.9
Sweden	85.0	91.2	90.4	83.6	75.0	23.4	32.4	24.3	19.3	17.8

Switzerland	86.8	90.3	88.2	85.5	82.7	23.3	28.8	25.0	20.8	18.0
Turkey	30.3	40.3	27.0	24.4	18.7	12.0	15.5	10.6	9.6	9.5
United Kingdom	69.6	76.6	69.7	67.0	63.4	23.6	30.7	23.3	20.3	18.5
United States	88.7	88.1	88.6	89.2	88.8	31.5	32.3	33.1	29.6	31.1

Reporting partner
countries
Brazil	38.8	49.8	40.0	32.7	23.2	10.8	11.0	11.6	10.6	9.1
Russian Federation	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
— Not available.
‡ Reporting standards not met.
NOTE: OECD average refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally. High school attainment data in this table refer to degrees classified by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) level 3. ISCED level 3 corresponds to high school completion in the United States. ISCED level 3C short programs do not correspond to high school completion; these short programs are excluded from this table. Bachelor’s degree or higher attainment data in this table refer to degrees classified by the OECD as ISCED level 5A or 6. ISCED level 5A, first award, corresponds to the bachelor's degree in the United States; ISCED level 5A, second award, corresponds to master's and first-professional degrees in the United States; and ISCED level 6 corresponds to doctoral degrees in the United States. For more information on ISCED levels, please see supplemental note 11.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance 2010, Tables A1.2a and A1.3a.

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