Education in States and Nations: 1991
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Higher
Less than education Higher
upper Upper (non- education All levels of education
Country secondary secondary university) (university) Total Female Male
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Australia 58 80 76 88 70 56 84
Austria 54 76 ** 90 70 55 85
Belgium 55 79 85 89 67 53 82
Czechoslovakia 67 90 ** 96 85 79 91
Canada 61 80 86 89 78 69 88
Denmark 72 89 93 94 83 79 87
Finland 70 86 86 98 80 77 84
France 65 84 89 88 75 65 85
Germany 55 76 87 89 75 63 87
Ireland 58 68 81 87 64 38 91
Italy 57 79 ** 91 64 45 84
Netherlands 55 77 84 90 69 53 85
New Zealand 68 79 81 88 75 64 87
Norway 67 83 90 94 82 75 88
Portugal 74 91 91 92 75 63 88
Spain 57 83 ** 87 63 41 86
Sweden 85 93 95 95 91 89 94
Switzerland 72 81 92 92 82 67 96
Turkey 64 73 ** 90 66 31 89
United Kingdom 68 84 86 91 79 69 89
United States* 62 79 85 88 78 69 87
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*1990 data.NOTE: See supplemental note to Indicator 3 for a discussion of levels of education; the supplemental note for details on data provided by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and for a discussion comparing U.S. educational attainment data from the Current Population Survey to the same in the 1990 Census.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, International Indicators Project, 1993. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population.
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