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Digest of Education Statistics: 2014
Digest of Education Statistics: 2014

NCES 2016-006
April 2016


Table 601.30. School-age populations as a percentage of total population, by age group and country: Selected years, 1985 through 2011
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 1999 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 19852 19902 19952 1999 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
OECD average3 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6
Australia 14 13 13 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 12 12 7 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Austria 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Belgium 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 12 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Canada 13 12 12 14 13 13 12 12 12 11 11 11 6 5 5 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Chile 18 18 17 16 15 15 15 15 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8
                                                 
Czech Republic (4) (4) 12 12 11 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 (4) (4) 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Denmark 12 10 10 12 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 6 6 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Estonia (4) (4) 11 10 10 10 9 9 10 (4) (4) 8 8 8 7 7 6 6
Finland 11 12 11 13 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
France 13 12 12 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 6 6 5 7 6 7 6 6 6 6 6 6
                                                 
Germany5 9 9 10 11 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 6 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5
Greece 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 5 6 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5
Hungary 11 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Iceland 16 15 14 16 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 7 7 6 8 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7
Ireland 18 18 15 15 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 14 8 8 8 9 8 7 7 7 6 6 6 6
                                                 
Israel 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Italy 13 10 9 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Japan 14 12 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 6 7 5 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Korea, Republic of 14 14 14 14 14 13 13 12 12 11 7 8 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Luxembourg 10 10 11 12 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 5 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
                                                 
Mexico 22 21 21 21 21 20 20 19 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Netherlands 12 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 7 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
New Zealand 15 13 13 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 7 7 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 7 7 7
Norway 13 11 11 13 14 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 6 6 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7
Poland 12 12 12 11 11 10 10 10 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6
                                                 
Portugal 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5
Slovak Republic (4) (4) 13 12 12 11 11 10 10 10 (4) (4) 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 6
Slovenia (4) (4) 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 (4) (4) 6 6 6 6 5 5 5
Spain 15 13 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 7 7 6 7 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Sweden 11 10 11 13 13 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 7
                                                 
Switzerland 11 10 10 12 11 11 11 11 11 10 10 10 6 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Turkey 21 21 20 21 19 19 19 19 18 18 18 17 9 9 9 11 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
United Kingdom 11 11 12 13 13 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 6 5 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6
United States 13 13 13 15 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 6 5 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
                                                 
Other reporting countries                                                
Brazil 20 19 19 18 18 17 17 16 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9
Russian Federation (4) (4) 14 14 11 10 10 10 9 9 9 10 (4) (4) 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6
—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 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally. The average includes all current OECD countries for which a given year's data are available, even if they were not members of OECD in that year. However, if data were reported for less than 75 percent of the countries, the average for that year is omitted.
4 Country did not exist in its current form in the given year.
5 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 2001; and Online Education Database, retrieved July 21, 2014, from http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx. (This table was prepared July 2014.)