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Education index

One of the three indices on which the human development index is built. It is based on the adult literacy rate and the combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools. See literacy rate, adult, and enrolment ratio, gross combined, for primary, secondary and tertiary schools. For details on how the index is calculated, see Technical note 1.

HDI Rank   Country        
1 Norway 0.99
2 Iceland 0.98
3 Australia 0.99
4 Ireland 0.99
5 Sweden 0.98
6 Canada 0.97
7 Japan 0.94
8 United States 0.97
9 Switzerland 0.95
10 Netherlands 0.99
11 Finland 0.99
12 Luxembourg 0.94
13 Belgium 0.98
14 Austria 0.96
15 Denmark 0.99
16 France 0.97
17 Italy 0.96
18 United Kingdom 0.97
19 Spain 0.98
20 New Zealand 0.99
21 Germany 0.96
22 Hong Kong, China (SAR) 0.88
23 Israel 0.95
24 Greece 0.97
25 Singapore 0.91
26 Korea, Rep. of 0.98
27 Slovenia 0.98
28 Portugal 0.96
29 Cyprus 0.91
30 Czech Republic 0.93
31 Barbados 0.96
32 Malta 0.86
33 Kuwait 0.87
34 Brunei Darussalam 0.88
35 Hungary 0.95
36 Argentina 0.95
37 Poland 0.95
38 Chile 0.91
39 Bahrain 0.86
40 Estonia 0.97
41 Lithuania 0.97
42 Slovakia 0.92
43 Uruguay 0.95
44 Croatia 0.90
45 Latvia 0.96
46 Qatar 0.85
47 Seychelles 0.88
48 Costa Rica 0.87
49 United Arab Emirates 0.71
50 Cuba 0.93
51 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.92
52 Bahamas 0.86
53 Mexico 0.86
54 Bulgaria 0.92
55 Tonga 0.93
56 Oman 0.77
57 Trinidad and Tobago 0.88
58 Panama 0.88
59 Antigua and Barbuda 0.80
60 Romania 0.90
61 Malaysia 0.84
62 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.87
63 Mauritius 0.81
64 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 0.86
65 Russian Federation 0.95
66 Macedonia, TFYR 0.87
67 Belarus 0.95
68 Dominica 0.86
69 Brazil 0.88
70 Colombia 0.86
71 Saint Lucia 0.89
72 Venezuela, RB 0.87
73 Albania 0.88
74 Thailand 0.86
75 Samoa (Western) 0.90
76 Saudi Arabia 0.72
77 Ukraine 0.94
78 Lebanon 0.86
79 Kazakhstan 0.96
80 Armenia 0.91
81 China 0.84
82 Peru 0.87
83 Ecuador 0.86
84 Philippines 0.89
85 Grenada 0.88
86 Jordan 0.86
87 Tunisia 0.75
88 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.81
89 Suriname 0.84
90 Fiji 0.87
91 Paraguay 0.86
92 Turkey 0.81
93 Sri Lanka 0.81
94 Dominican Republic 0.83
95 Belize 0.77
96 Iran, Islamic Rep. of 0.75
97 Georgia 0.91
98 Maldives 0.87
99 Azerbaijan 0.89
100 Occupied Palestinian Territories 0.89
101 El Salvador 0.76
102 Algeria 0.71
103 Guyana 0.90
104 Jamaica 0.79
105 Turkmenistan 0.91
106 Cape Verde 0.73
107 Syrian Arab Republic 0.74
108 Indonesia 0.83
109 Viet Nam 0.81
110 Kyrgyzstan 0.92
111 Egypt 0.73
112 Nicaragua 0.75
113 Uzbekistan 0.91
114 Moldova, Rep. of 0.89
115 Bolivia 0.87
116 Mongolia 0.91
117 Honduras 0.77
118 Guatemala 0.68
119 Vanuatu 0.71
120 Equatorial Guinea 0.77
121 South Africa 0.80
122 Tajikistan 0.90
123 Morocco 0.54
124 Gabon 0.71
125 Namibia 0.79
126 India 0.61
127 S??o Tom?? and Principe 0.76
128 Solomon Islands 0.67
129 Cambodia 0.69
130 Myanmar 0.76
131 Botswana 0.78
132 Comoros 0.53
133 Lao People's Dem. Rep. 0.66
134 Pakistan 0.46
135 Bhutan 0.48
136 Ghana 0.54
137 Bangladesh 0.46
138 Nepal 0.51
139 Papua New Guinea 0.52
140 Congo 0.72
141 Sudan 0.53
142 Timor-Leste 0.63
143 Madagascar 0.66
144 Cameroon 0.66
145 Uganda 0.67
146 Swaziland 0.72
147 Togo 0.54
148 Djibouti 0.52
149 Lesotho 0.77
150 Yemen 0.51
151 Zimbabwe 0.77
152 Kenya 0.69
153 Mauritania 0.49
154 Haiti 0.50
155 Gambia 0.42
156 Senegal 0.39
157 Eritrea 0.50
158 Rwanda 0.61
159 Nigeria 0.63
160 Guinea 0.34
161 Angola 0.53
162 Tanzania, U. Rep. of 0.62
163 Benin 0.40
164 C??te d'Ivoire 0.46
165 Zambia 0.63
166 Malawi 0.64
167 Congo, Dem. Rep. of the 0.54
168 Mozambique 0.47
169 Burundi 0.52
170 Ethiopia 0.40
171 Chad 0.29
172 Central African Republic 0.42
173 Guinea-Bissau 0.39
174 Burkina Faso 0.23
175 Mali 0.24
176 Sierra Leone 0.45
177 Niger 0.26
Source :
calculated on the basis of data in columns 3 and 4.(should be linked)