Education in States and Nations: 1991

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Country              14    15     16     17    18     19    20        21
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Belgium            98.7  97.3   93.5   88.3  47.0   23.1  16.9       0.0
Canada             98.7  99.3   93.9   71.1  35.5   11.1  13.0       0.0
Czechoslovakia     99.9  91.4   86.9   39.8   0.0    0.0   0.0       0.0
Denmark            93.5  96.7   91.1   78.8  67.9   46.2  25.7      15.7
Finland            99.8  99.6   92.9   85.7  71.6   24.1  14.9      14.0
France             93.9  94.7   92.0   86.4  57.2   31.6  10.6       2.6
Germany (West)     92.9  94.5   93.6   92.4  79.6   53.5  29.0      15.4
Hungary            90.6  85.0   73.0   49.3  11.9    4.6   0.0       0.0
Ireland            95.9  95.1   85.1   64.7  28.8    0.0   0.0       0.0
Japan             100.0  98.4   92.8   88.8   1.8     **    **        **
Netherlands        98.9  99.2   97.2   90.0  67.4   41.5  24.5      14.1
New Zealand        99.1  96.4   85.7   58.9  16.1    6.0   1.4       0.9
Norway             97.9 100.0   91.7   84.7  74.2   33.5  16.9      11.1
Portugal           60.3  65.3   63.4   58.9  36.5   20.7  12.6       4.9
Spain              99.5  89.0   73.5   63.9  34.6   19.6  10.2       8.5
Sweden             99.2  96.9   86.0   85.3  54.7   10.0   2.5       1.7
Switzerland        92.2  91.4   86.9   85.1  75.2   50.2  21.5       8.9
Turkey             47.9  43.3   38.7   34.4  18.3    9.5   6.0       0.0
United Kingdom    100.0 100.0   62.4   43.1  12.3   13.4   1.4       0.9
United States*     99.6  98.4   94.6   83.7  22.8    5.7   1.0       1.1
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NOTE: See supplemental note to Indicator 10 for details on data provided by Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and on the calculation of full-time equivalent enrollments. United States figures are estimated by using the April, 1990 U.S. Census totals for secondary enrollment and allocating them to age levels according to the pattern found in the October, 1990 Current Population Survey. See technical note for a more detailed explanation. See supplemental note for a discussion of levels of education.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Education Research and Innovation, Education at a Glance, 1993, Table P13(A). U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population and Housing; Current Population Survey, October, 1990.

Figure 10

Table 10b