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Table 422. Number of bachelor's degree recipients per 100 persons of the typical age of graduation, by sex and country: 2002 through 2007
Country Typical age of graduation, 2007 Total Male Female
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
OECD average1  34.0 35.4 37.1 38.5 27.7 28.3 29.7 31.0 40.5 42.9 44.8 46.2
Australia 20-23 50.7 54.8 46.9 59.9 59.6 60.7 43.0 46.7 37.4 47.9 47.4 48.6 58.8 63.4 57.0 72.5 72.5 73.4
Austria 22-26 18.0 19.0 19.6 20.4 21.7 22.4 17.9 18.7 19.0 19.0 20.4 20.8 18.1 19.4 20.3 21.8 22.9 24.0
Belgium (Flemish) 22-24 19.2 18.3 18.4 19.0 35.4 18.7 17.5 17.0 17.9 32.6 19.7 19.0 19.8 20.2 38.2
Canada 22-24 31.5 33.6 39.3 35.2 24.3 25.2 29.5 26.5 39.1 42.2 49.7 44.3
Chile 23-26 25.1 11.5 15.0 14.5 22.9 9.7 13.0 11.9 27.5 13.4 17.0 17.3
                                       
Czech Republic 23-25 15.4 17.3 21.0 26.0 30.7 36.4 14.3 15.9 18.8 22.6 26.5 31.0 16.6 18.8 23.4 29.5 35.2 42.1
Denmark 24-26 34.4 38.6 49.9 52.9 50.3 50.9 23.4 25.1 35.6 37.2 37.0 38.3 45.7 52.3 64.4 69.2 63.7 63.9
Finland 24-26 51.8 55.8 54.7 53.8 57.3 58.8 37.7 40.4 39.5 38.8 40.6 41.3 66.4 72.2 70.5 69.7 74.5 77.4
France 20-25 39.0 41.5 40.0 34.2 33.8 32.9 34.9 33.4 30.6 30.2 45.3 48.4 46.9 37.9 37.5
Germany 24-27 19.2 19.5 20.6 20.5 21.0 23.2 19.3 19.3 20.3 20.0 20.0 22.0 19.1 19.7 20.9 21.1 22.0 24.4
                                       
Greece 22-27 19.1 23.9 23.5 21.7 13.3 16.3 16.1 14.7 25.4 32.2 31.7 29.4
Hungary 23-24 31.1 33.6 37.3 41.5 38.2 38.8 23.2 24.6 26.6 29.0 26.1 26.2 39.3 43.2 48.4 54.5 51.0 51.8
Iceland 23-25 40.0 44.2 50.5 56.3 62.8 62.8 27.2 29.4 31.4 33.6 37.7 38.0 53.1 59.1 70.3 80.5 89.6 88.0
Ireland 21-23 30.9 36.8 38.6 40.7 42.8 44.8 25.6 29.7 31.9 33.3 33.4 36.4 36.2 44.0 45.3 48.0 52.5 53.4
Italy 23-25 22.4 27.8 40.1 44.8 42.7 38.7 19.2 24.0 33.3 37.3 35.1 31.6 25.6 31.6 47.2 52.7 50.6 46.1
                                       
Japan 22-24 34.1 34.4 36.3 36.9 38.7 38.8 40.2 40.1 41.4 41.3 42.8 42.9 27.6 28.5 31.0 32.2 34.3 34.4
Korea, Republic of 21-23 31.5 31.7 32.3 35.5 41.0 42.9 31.6 32.1 31.5 34.8 40.2 42.7 31.3 31.2 33.2 36.2 41.7 43.2
Mexico 23-26 16.5 14.3 13.8 15.2 18.1 18.2 15.6 13.3 13.1 14.5 16.7 16.8 17.4 15.3 14.4 15.9 19.5 19.7
Netherlands 21-25 38.6 42.5 42.9 47.2 49.2 47.8 34.4 36.4 37.2 40.2 42.9 41.7 42.9 48.7 48.6 54.3 55.7 54.1
New Zealand 21-23 41.6 39.0 47.6 49.0 53.5 53.8 31.8 29.1 34.9 36.6 40.6 41.6 51.3 49.1 61.0 62.0 67.0 66.0
                                       
Norway 22-25 41.1 42.0 43.3 42.1 45.1 45.0 29.7 30.0 31.5 28.8 31.9 31.8 52.8 54.2 55.3 55.8 58.8 58.7
Poland 23-25 44.4 45.0 44.8 46.6 32.6 32.8 32.9 34.4 56.6 57.6 57.1 59.2
Portugal 22-24 32.9 33.7 34.9 46.0 20.4 21.7 22.7 35.0 45.6 46.0 47.4 57.4
Slovak Republic 23-24 28.3 30.1 33.7 37.9 24.4 25.6 26.0 26.8 32.4 34.8 41.8 49.6
Spain 20-22 33.1 32.0 35.2 35.0 35.3 34.7 26.4 25.5 27.5 27.1 27.1 26.6 40.0 38.9 43.2 43.3 43.8 43.3
                                       
Sweden 25 35.2 38.4 39.9 44.0 43.3 42.2 26.5 28.6 29.7 30.8 29.8 29.1 44.1 48.5 50.5 57.6 57.2 55.8
Switzerland 24-27 20.8 20.9 22.4 25.0 27.0 28.9 23.3 23.5 24.0 26.1 26.8 28.7 18.3 18.4 20.9 23.9 27.1 29.2
Turkey 22-26 14.0 11.3 15.4 17.0 15.2 11.8 16.3 17.9 12.7 10.7 14.5 15.9
United Kingdom 20-24 39.2 39.8 39.0 39.0 34.2 34.1 33.0 32.9 44.3 45.7 45.2 45.4
United States 22-24 36.1 33.4 33.2 34.2 35.5 36.5 29.7 27.6 27.5 28.1 29.1 30.1 42.9 39.4 39.2 40.7 42.4 43.4
                                       
Reporting partner
   countries
                                     
Brazil 22-23 15.6 17.5 21.3 22.7 11.8 13.3 16.2 18.4 19.4 21.6 26.4 27.0
Estonia 22-24 28.5 26.4 27.3 17.6 15.4 17.6 39.5 37.8 37.3
Israel 26 32.3 32.9 33.4 36.1 25.3 25.7 26.8 29.1 39.6 40.2 40.3 43.1
Russian Federation 21-22 45.9 43.7 48.6
Slovenia 25-26 21.6 21.6 21.1 14.3 14.2 13.9 29.4 29.3 29.0
—Not available.
1 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting OECD countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally. The average is omitted for years in which less than 75 percent of the countries reported data.
NOTE: 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 5A, first award. This level corresponds to the bachelor's degree in the United States. The recipients per 100 persons ratio relates the number of people of all ages earning bachelor's degrees in a particular year to the number of people in the population at the typical age of graduation. The typical age is based on full-time attendance and normal progression through the education system (without repeating a year, taking a year off, etc.); this age varies across countries because of differences in their education systems and differences in program duration. This age is presented for the most recent year of data and may differ from previous years; please see previously published volumes of the Digest of Education Statistics for the typical age of graduation in previous years. Data for Luxembourg are not shown because tertiary students study for only 1 year in Luxembourg. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2004 through 2010; and Online Education Database, retrieved June 10, 2010, from http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared June 2010.)

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