The Educational Attainment Query gives a comprehensive picture of the distribution of education attainment and human capital among age groups and genders in over 180 countries. The query holds attainment data from three sources: 1) the Barro-Lee Dataset, 2) the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and 3) the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. Each dataset is summarized in the table below and explained in detail through the “About the Data” links.
Data Source |
Indicators |
Countries |
Years |
|---|---|---|---|
Barro-Lee Dataset (2014) |
Average years of schooling; Educational attainment among age groups and genders; Population distributions |
144 |
1970-2010 (at 5 year intervals) |
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) |
Mean years of schooling; Percentage of population (age 25+) by educational attainment |
158 |
1970-2017 |
Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital |
Projections: Mean years of schooling; Percentage of the population and total population (in thousands) by highest level of educational attainment |
167 |
2010 to 2100 (at 5 year intervals) |
