Average Years of Secondary Schooling for Youth Aged 15-19

Barro-Lee data provides the average years of secondary education completed among the population aged 15-19. The dataset is compiled by Education Statistics from the World Bank platform. The temporal and geographic coverage is not specified in the provided input.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in average years of secondary schooling for the 15-19 age group over time.
• Compare secondary education attainment levels across different countries or regions.
• Model the relationship between youth educational attainment and other development indicators.
• Benchmark national progress on secondary education targets using the average years metric.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized metric (average years) for international comparison.
• Focuses on a critical demographic cohort (ages 15-19) for education policy.

Limitations

• The specific number of countries, years of coverage, and row count are unknown.
• Data granularity (e.g., subnational, gender breakdown) for the 15-19 age group is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Education Statistics (World Bank), based on the Barro-Lee methodology.

Collection Method

Estimated average calculated from national census and survey data.