Education in States and Nations: 1991
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Per 100 22-year-olds
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Percent of all first
First Science and university degrees
university engineering first in science and
Country Year degrees university degrees* engineering
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Albania 1989 5.5 2.5 45
Austria 1991 9.1 2.2 25
Belgium 1988 14.0 4.1 29
Bulgaria 1990 19.6 7.3 37
Canada 1990 33.2 5.4 16
China 1990 1.2 0.6 53
Czechoslovakia 1989 11.6 5.8 50
Denmark 1990 17.7 4.2 26
Finland 1991 20.8 6.9 34
France 1990 9.2 3.7 40
Germany 1990 10.9 5.1 47
Greece 1991 11.9 3.3 27
Hungary 1990 8.8 1.7 18
India 1990 4.8 1.1 24
Ireland 1990 12.8 4.0 30
Italy 1992 10.5 2.3 22
Japan 1991 22.4 6.0 26
Mexico 1990 7.6 2.6 34
Netherlands 1990 8.3 2.2 28
Norway 1990 31.0 3.9 12
Poland 1990 10.0 2.9 29
Portugal 1989 7.1 1.9 27
Singapore 1990 11.5 4.8 41
South Korea 1990 19.3 6.0 31
Spain 1990 18.6 3.0 16
Sweden 1991 14.5 3.4 24
Switzerland 1990 9.0 2.2 25
Taiwan 1990 11.6 4.2 36
United Kingdom 1991 8.9 3.2 36
United States 1991 30.9 5.2 17
Yugoslavia 1990 7.5 2.7 37
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*Includes degrees in mathematics and agriculture, biological, physical,
environmental,
mathematical, and computer sciences. Health and social sciences are excluded.
NOTE: Data are compiled from numerous national and international sources and may not be strictly comparable. Degrees in different countries may not be academically equivalent. See supplemental note to Indicator 29 for details on data provided by several Asian and European countries, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for an explanation of graduation reference age; and the supplemental note for a discussion of enrollment reference groups and graduation references ages - typical years of completion for higher education.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators, 1993, Appendix Tables 2-1 and 2-2, updated 1994.
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