Table 386.

School-age populations as a percentage of total population, by age group and country: Selected years, 1985 through 2004

Country	5- to 14-year-olds as a percent of total population									15- to 19-year-olds as a percent of total population
	19851	19901	19951	1996	1998	1999	2002	2003	2004	19852	19902	19952	1996	1998	1999	2002	2003	2004
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Australia	14	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Austria	—	—	—	—	—	—	12	12	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	6	6
Belgium	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Canada	13	12	12	13	14	14	—	13	13	6	5	5	7	7	7	—	7	7
Czech Republic	(3)	(3)	12	13	13	12	12	11	11	(3)	(3)	6	8	8	7	7	7	7
Denmark	12	10	10	11	11	12	12	13	13	6	6	5	6	6	5	5	5	5
Finland	11	12	11	13	13	13	12	12	12	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
France	13	12	12	13	13	13	12	12	12	6	6	5	7	7	7	7	6	6
Germany4	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	6	4	4	5	6	6	6	6	6
Greece	—	—	11	12	11	11	10	10	10	—	5	6	7	7	7	6	6	6
Hungary	—	—	—	—	—	—	12	11	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	6	6
Iceland	16	15	14	16	16	16	16	16	15	7	7	6	8	8	8	7	7	7
Ireland	18	18	15	17	16	15	14	14	14	8	8	8	9	9	9	8	8	8
Italy	13	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	6	6	5	6	6	5	5	5	5
Japan	14	12	10	11	11	10	10	10	9	6	7	5	7	6	6	6	6	5
Korea, Republic of	—	—	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	—	—	7	9	9	8	7	7	6
Luxembourg	10	10	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	5	4	4	5	6	6	6	6	6
Mexico	—	—	—	—	—	—	22	22	22	—	—	—	—	—	—	10	10	10
Netherlands	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	7	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
New Zealand	15	13	13	15	15	15	15	15	15	7	7	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Norway	13	11	11	13	13	13	13	14	14	6	6	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Poland	—	—	—	—	—	—	13	13	12	—	—	—	—	—	—	9	8	8
Portugal	—	—	—	—	—	—	10	11	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	6	6
Russian Federation	(3)	(3)	14	16	—	14	12	12	11	(3)	(3)	6	7	—	8	8	9	9
Slovak Republic	(3)	(3)	—	—	—	—	13	13	13	(3)	(3)	—	—	—	—	8	8	8
Spain	15	13	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	7	7	6	8	7	7	6	6	6
Sweden	11	10	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	5	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Switzerland	11	10	10	12	12	12	12	12	11	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	6
Turkey	21	21	20	20	21	21	—	19	19	9	9	9	11	11	11	—	9	9
United Kingdom	11	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	6	5	5	6	6	6	6	6	7
United States	13	13	13	15	14	15	15	14	14	6	5	6	7	7	7	7	7	7

— Not available. 1 Data are for the 5- to 13-year-old population. 2 Data are for the 14- to 17-year-old population. 3 Country did not exist in its current form in the given year. 4 Data for 1985 are for the former West Germany. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, selected years, 1987 through 2004. OECD, Education Online Database, retrieved July 16, 2007, from http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Default.aspx. (This table was pre­pared July 2007.)